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Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

...ay from doctors writing therapy guidelines for the prestigious 17-hospital National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. This type of therapy is known as brachytherapy, the procedure has been performed for years by researchers, but previous treatment guidelines for prostate cancer...

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

...the world, a study conducted by researchers at the prestigious Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities has revealed that more than a third of physicians have no regular source of healthcare Dr. Cary P Gross of Yale University is New Haven, Connecticut says, ‘ these physicians without a regular source of health care ...

Spreading knowledge to doctors about herbal medicine

...fessionals of the Harvard Medical School and other prestigious US medical centres, has set up an internet-based education programme for doctors. They devised a set of email questions,something like a questionnaire,and a list of links that would help answer them. A group of 450 doctors took part in the study an...

Effect of alcohol drinking on breast cancer

...ncer Research, UK, who included dozens of the most prestigious researchers from around the world to look into the causes of cancer and reviewed the results of 65 separate studies, involving nearly 200,000 women say they are sure that it is the alcohol that matters. They looked at two issues. The first was how m...

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc awarded the prestigious outstanding supplier award received from Wal-Mart

...nc (RPI), they have stated that have received the prestigious Supplier Award // from Wal-Mart, the largest chain store in the US, for outstanding performance in the first quarter of 2005. Wal-Mart Stores is a global company with more than 1.3 million associates worldwide and nearly 5,000 stores and wholesale cl...

Scientists Awarded Appropriately For Contribution Towards Medical Research

...s who did pioneering work in DNA research have won prestigious medical awards. These scientists are entitled to receive a cash award of $50,000 from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation that would be presented on Friday in New York. The prize for basic medical research will be shared by Ernest McCulloch and Ja...

Time magazine has recognized efforts of two Indian doctors towards reducing infant mortality rate

...s a master’s degree in Public health from the most prestigious Johns Hopkins University. The success of the mission has been possible due to systematic research, planning and effective implementation. The first step comprised of identification of all the 18 leading causes of infant death out of which malnutrit...

A Step Towards Unraveling The Schizophrenia And Depression Mystery

...odiesterase 4B (PDE4B) in the Nov. 18 issue of the prestigious journal Science. Their discoveries could lead to the eventual development of new drugs to treat mental health problems. In 2000, researchers at the University of Edinburgh identified a gene they called Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), which wa...

Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory

...e study, which appears in the Nov. 24 issue of the prestigious journal Nature, demonstrates that awareness, or visual working memory, does not depend on extra storage space in the brain but on an ability to ignore what is irrelevant. For the study, the scientists used a new technique for measuring brainwaves m...

Zinc reduces morbidity due to diarrhea in HIV+ children

...rch, published in November - December issue of the prestigious journal Lancet, zinc supplementation should be used as adjunct therapy for children with HIV-1 infection // , since it cuts the chance of diarrhea and pneumonia without risking deterioration of HIV infection. Zinc deficiency is previously known to b...

Research Targets treatment for dementia and brain injuries

...ased institute, features on the front cover of the prestigious Washington-based Journal of Neuroscience. Dr Bull's and Professor Bartlett's research demonstrated adult mice produce multi-purpose, or progenitor, cells in the hippocampus. 'The research suggests while progenitor cells in mice do not behave like...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

...d ever used drugs. Post revelation she lost many prestigious contracts and went on a five-month rehabilitation centre course at Arizona's Meadow Clinic. She even paid for Doherty to join the programme but he quit. In a public statement she had said: "I want to apologise to all of the people I have let down bec...

Vladeck to head the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

... Mr. Vladeck said that the institution is a very prestigious one and would get through this turbulent period in a short period of time....

Oscar Winners Live Longer Than Co-Competitors

... than their med school classmates despite enjoying prestigious careers. This could be attributed to the additional responsibility, go-get attitude and elevated stress levels. The results of the study perhaps highlight the fact that anything in this world comes with a price tag, sometimes even life. ...

Labs around the World to Join Hands to Detect Bird Flu

... to set up labs across the world. Britain's most prestigious scientific organization, the Royal Society announced a taskforce of scientists, doctors and industry experts to examine whether the country's policies for dealing with an outbreak are scientifically sound. Sir John Skehel, director of the National ...

Indian-Born Doctor Diddy Shines In Germany

...78. Two things happened in 1981: he shifted to the prestigious Marion Hospital in Essen as an associate professor and also met a girl named Monika, whom he was to marry later in the year. That was also when I started thinking about breaking out on my own or taking a shot at becoming chief of a hospital. I decid...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

...ty, director of Kolkata-based Sanved, received the prestigious Ashoka fellowship in 2003 as a tribute to her work of rehabilitating young sex workers in West Bengal using a unique method of mental healing - dance therapy. Now, helped by US-based NGO Daywalka Foundation, which has branches in Kolkata and Kathma...

OpenMED Nominated For Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award

...ent body, has been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Stockholm Challenge 2006 award. // Backed by the National Informatics Centre, OpenMED allows authors and researchers to self-archive their scientific and technical documents. The Stockholm Challenge is a prominent global networking programme for in...

German Scientists Create Stem Cells From Mouse Testes

...eresting study appear in the online edition of the prestigious Nature journal. At the moment, it is not known if women too have similar properties. If so, their own cells can be harvested and manipulated to treat diseases. Although some argue that it might not be possible to observe the same effect in human...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

...is work in the field. He has been awarded the most prestigious fellowship conferred by the Optical Society of America, a premier institution that promotes research in the field of optics and photonics. The work of Baumberg and numerous other researchers is directed at the production of devices that exploit the...

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