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Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

...he country with the maximum number of HIV positive people in the world. The HIV scourge is sure to have a devastating effect on the economy, and research has shown that providing workers with drugs is cheaper than paying for absenteeism, loss of productivity, hospitalization, funerals and replacing and ret...

Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

...in is one of the worst types of chronic pain. Many people are immobilized and crippled because of this painful condition. But now there’s good news for the long-suffering arthritic patients. Acupuncture, which is one of the most popular forms of alternative medicine, is supposed to have magical cures for t...

George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief

...se three diseases together killed some 5.5 million people last year, the bulk of them in Africa,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The sheer number of those infected and dying is almost beyond comprehension," President Bush said at a Rose Garden appearance. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, N...

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

...ome out with a startling expose!!!! Nearly 80% of people who claim that they are allergic to penicillin actually are under the misconception that they are allergic to the drug. The researchers led by Dr. Alan R. Salkind, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School o...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

...er Western countries is HIV-B. But the majority of people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV-A is the dominant strain in the northern region of sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV-C is more common in southern parts of Africa. Protease inhibitors, the drugs used in combination therapy to fight HIV in...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

... just for rich India's health system, and the poor people who can't get services will be helped".Tawhid Nawaz, task manager at the World Bank, told the BMJ: "The State Government could not have managed this hospital on its own. The bank is allowed to finance innovative thinkgs like this".But some internatio...

Tattoos may significantly increase risk of hepatitis C infection

...y expose a person to accidental HIV infection. So people who have liking for tattoos have to be very carefu...ould be to avoid reuse of tattoo needles. If many people are found using the same needle it is advisable to avoid tattooing itself. After all a healthy body...

Antidepressants come in handy for patients on treatment for hepatitis, cancers and multiple sclerosis

...e treatment can avoid this problem. Almost 50% of people on chemotherapy with high dose interferon for skin...nly help alleviate the depression that could cause people to stop treatment, but also help in other ways. Study participants who took Paxil before undergoing...

Spouses and other partners lower blood pressure says new research

...d study author said that this does not mean single people are doomed to high blood pressure. Rather he said the findings simply suggest that comfortable relationships, close friends included, have a soothing effect on blood pressure. Effects of short-term changes in blood pressure of a person are still un...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...e and middle ear infections". The WHO says 11,000 people die every day, due to causes related to smoking and the figure is expected to more than double by2020, if current trends continue.She saved the worst for the tobacco majors and said "big tobacco companies have paid for bogus scientific studies, unlea...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...uth African. South Africa has nearly five million people or more than one tenth of its population infected with the deadly virus. Unfortunately only a tinny minority can afford the expensive anti retroviral drugs and the Government says this drugs are still too expensive for its health budget....

Special proteins to fight TB identified

...oteins represents a potential method of protecting people from TB. Dr. Stewart added that the study demonst...e because of the fact that tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease in the world. But the sad part is that a third of the world's pop...

Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of ‘Huntingtons’ Disase

...tion of the "normal" huntingtin protein present in people without the disease. Researchers have uncovered the function of a protein that plays an important role in Huntington's disease (HD). Dr. Elena Cattaneo, from the University of Milan, in Italy and colleagues found that the huntingtin protein control...

Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of Huntingtins’ Disese

...tion of the "normal" huntingtin protein present in people without the disease. Researchers have uncovered the function of a protein that plays an important role in Huntington's disease (HD). Dr. Elena Cattaneo, from the University of Milan, in Italy, and colleagues found that the huntingtin protein control...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...of injecting the virus directly into the brains of people according to Dr. Matthias Gromeier, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina . It is unknown whether this treatment may "unleash" harmful properties of the virus or lead to the formation of other disease-causing substances, he adde...

TIZANIDINE - New solution to chronic headache

...muscle spasms may provide new hope for millions of people who suffer from frequent headaches. American scientists in World Congress of Neurology told that tizanidine, can cut the frequency, duration and intensity of headaches. Doctors from the Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor foun...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...ers, came out with the point that these 34 million people in developing countries cannot be abondoned the tr... AIDS treatment organization Action Aid Kenya "Our people have families, homes, feelings, aspirations and jobs. But unfortunately their income is such that th...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...caused by a mutation of the E-cadherin gene. These people had a very bad family history with deaths related to stomach cancer. On this basis these members were taken in for the study and after thorough counselling they underwent surgical removal of stomach. "The somehow surprising and medically fascinati...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...might help to overcome this situation, but not all people are benefited from this situation. Hence for these people injecting purified botulinum toxin into the skin does a greater relief for such condition. Most suf...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...the urine could be detected."We know from studying people with diabetes that we can reduce microalbuminuria with ACE inhibitors and that this may help protect them," says Dr. Banga. Thereby reducing the degree of microalbuminuria reduces the risk of heart disease....

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