Tag: "planning" at medical news

Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

...borne is mind that the Union Ministry of Health is planning that all doctors renew their registration every 5 years and tune themselves to changing times!!...

Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu

... –1 positive and the wife is negative and they are planning to have a child the problem arises because sexual intercourse carries a 1 in 500 risk of transmitting the virus to the female partner and through her to the fetus. Sperm washing is a risk-reduction option in which infected sperm are washed free of vi...

Alcohol shrinks brain

...he frontal lobe, which is the center for emotions, planning and other higher forms behaviour. This is particularly noted in the elderly.The investigators measured the frontal lobe volume in about 1400 individuals using MRI scan and found that the frontal lobe had shrunk in less than 8% of individuals between ...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

..., the country's largest pharmaceutical company, is planning to enter the anti-AIDS drugs segment. According to Ranbaxy's regional director for India and west Asia, S D Kaul, the company is in a position to launch Lamivudine, Nevirapine, Aabacavir and Indinavir products in the Indian market shortly.// Ranbaxy...

Folate and famiy planning

...t folate supplements, widely recommended for women planning pregnancy, may increase the chances of having twins. Professor Judith Lumley, from La Trobe University examined various folate supplement trials and found women who took folate before becoming pregnant had a 50 per cent greater chance of having twin...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...he pharmaceutical companies have either started or planning to start their own retail outlets. Mr. Shah claims that Subiksha Group from South India has already firmly entrenched itself in organized retailing, having established 80 outlets in 12 cities and targeting to open another 500. He further said that th...

Diabetics and their babies

...ontrol. "With adequate medical support and careful planning of the pregnancy, women with diabetes will further minimise the risks to their pregnancy."...

Music aids in curing dementia

...icate. scientists at Imperial College London are planning to carry out a study to see if they can prove that this therapy has long term benefits for dementia sufferers. If their results are positive, the scientists are hopeful that the therapy can be introduced as a treatment for dementia patients.// Dem...

Morepan to file new drug applications with the USFDA

Domestic pharma major Morepen Labs is planning to file its nine abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) with the US FDA by the year 2003. The company would file its first two ANDAs - Loratadine (anthistatminic drug) and Atorvastain Calcium (anti-cholesterol) - by the end of 2002. Loratadine is t...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

... has completed trials in healthy humans and is now planning to test the drug in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Most rivals have yet to reach this stage....

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

...d more than 1,000 pregnant women at natural family planning clinics in Italy, South America and the United States who had been relying on the "rhythm method" to time their ovulation and sexual activity. The researchers compared women who had sex at a time deemed "optimal"--either the day before or the day th...

Family planning with folate

...t folate supplements, widely recommended for women planning pregnancy, may increase the chances of having twins.Professor Judith Lumley, from La Trobe University examined various folate supplement trials and found women who took folate before becoming pregnant// had a 50 per cent greater chance of having twin...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

...hese issues in further studies of mice and is also planning to test myostatin blockade in dogs with DMD, since dogs are larger and have a more severe disease than the mice. He added that testing the strategy in animal models of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is also in the pipeline. Kathryn Wagner, on the ot...

Painkillers Increase Risk of Miscarriage

...It may be prudent for physicians and women who are planning to be pregnant to be aware of this potential risk and avoid using NSAIDs around conception."...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...ive age in Europe use variations of natural family planning methods and an estimated 30 percent to 40 percent ...ved to be the most effective of the natural family planning methods. The temperature computers scored the upper range of reliability and the hormonal computer i...

New Vaccine for SARS Coming Soon

...he current study. Specialists say they are soon planning human clinical trials in the near future....

Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Not Safe

...may make better choices about drinking if they are planning to become, or think that they may be pregnant....

Helping Cancer Patients Fight Fatigue

...rest periods, delegating work, pacing oneself, and planning high energy activities at times of peak energy. To study if ECAM is effective for cancer patients, researchers in Philadelphia compared fatigue levels in cancer patients who received ECAM intervention or a nutrition intervention. The participants r...

Study reveals that it is easy for people to learn from watching others learn

... more due to implicit meeting of neural systems in planning and controlling of movements. When people see others learn from the exercise, the information gets noted in the brain and later the information is used to assimilate one’s own situation accurately. Experts say that the findings of the study, whic...

New guidelines for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder

... and how it affects people. Hence special disaster planning needs to be done to cater to every different form of disaster and the anguish it inflicts upon men who suffer. Some symptoms of PTSD are flashbacks; sleep problems, difficulty in concentrating, and emotional instability that may be present for four ...

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