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Hike in drug licence fee could hit several SSI units in TN

...sed from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 5000 per product. The new rate for product inspection is pegged at Rs. 300 per pr...manufactures less than 10 products, the inspection rate is Rs. 250 per product. The Drug Administration, Tamil Nadu claimed that the hike in the respective ...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...s showing a 25 per cent success rate in either reducing tumour size or the number of tumours. Till date, it has many patients have undergone this treatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic gla...

The henna allergy

...e fingers. A spokeswoman said: "With the growing rate of allergies that are affecting people we would say to people to proceed with extreme caution and if they think they are slightly allergic they should not go for one at all."Dr Hausen's findings appear in Deutsches Arzteblatt, the Journal of the Germ...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

...and the earlier studies. The breast cancer death rate has been dropping substantially since the late 1990s because of earlier detection and more effective treatments. David's research found that patients whose breast cancer had spread lived an average of 37 months if they got group therapy, compared wit...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

...rious as the population starts to show its highest rate of osteoporosis and other bone health problems. Getting children to pay attention to their calcium needs is a challenge for scientists and educators....

Sniff out flatulence

...heir noses, slowly empty it and sniff. They had to rate the odour emitted on a scale of 0 (no odour) to 8 (very offensive). Eight of the guinea pigs wore specially designed gas-tight pantaloons made of metallised nylon which prevented any smell leakage. A catheter was attached to the subjects' anus. In ...

Pregnancy should not be confined

...y lead to subsequent increases in both their heart rate and blood pressure. Those at risk for such problems should be prescribed supplemental oxygen during air travel. In addition, because gas expands with increasing altitude, pregnant women should avoid consuming beans, sodas and other gas-producing fo...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...nfected individuals' movement and quarantines--the rate of disease spread would fall. Nonetheless, significant epidemics could result, particularly if there were delays in detecting the first cases or in setting up effective public health interventions. In the US, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom...

Vaginosis increases risk of miscarriage

... (IVF) in Leeds. These women conceived at the same rate as women with normal vaginal bacteria. However, 29% of those with the infection subsequently miscarried, compared to only 18% of women who were free of infection. Dr Janet Wilson, a consultant physician specialising in genito-urinary medicine, said ...

A way to calm the heart rhythm

...thing exercise and reciting the Rosary respiration rate can be slowed down and thereby calm the heart rhyt...sation. At six breaths per minute, the respiration rate was linked to a healthier heart rhythm. The findings lead the researchers to speculate whether the p...

Depression linked to mortality

...the autonomic nervous system, which controls heart rate and the contraction of blood vessels. Such changes have been seen in depression and could contribute to the severity of stroke or heart attack. Doctors need to take more care to screen their patients for mental illness....

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...lves continuous movement designed to get the heart rate up. Step aerobics follows the same principle but the movements are performed using a stepping bench. After 6 weeks, both aerobics groups showed significantly greater dips in their total cholesterol levels than the sedentary women did. But only the st...

Depression increases heart attacks

...uded that depressed people tend to have poor heart rate variability (HRV). Heart rate variability is the rythm of the heart and ability to contract, which can affect its ability to handl...

Recovery from lung injury

...tor and longer in intensive care. And the survival rate tended to decrease with each decade of age. The researchers conclude that age should not be a factor in deciding whether a patient needs a ventilator....

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...ple with 3 or less of these infections had a death rate of 3%. The death rate jumped to 10%, however, for those exposed to 4 or 5 infections, and to 15% for those with 6 or more ...

Cytobrush to detect oral cancer

...pon in our fight against oral cancer. The survival rate for this prevalent cancer is only 40 per cent overall, but survival rates increase to greater than 80 per cent if the cancer is found early. With the engineers and cytologists at Oral Scan Systems, a New York-based health devices company, a dentist w...

Medications for depression

... for depression changed from 1985 to 1999. // The rate of outpatient treatment for depression increased from 1 per 100 persons to 2.5 per 100 over this time.The proportion of those receiving drug treatment for depression increased from 30 per cent to 70 per cent - probably due to the introduction of new ...

Infertile men at cancer risk

...sticular cancer among infertile men - a 60% higher rate than in those men without fertility problems. The researchers point out "the incidence of testicular cancer has increased in the past 50 years and some evidence suggests that sperm quality has decreased in the same period."...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

The survival rate for older men undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery is rising, even though more patients than ever are undergoing the procedure.// Coronary artery bypass surgery uses a blood vessel from another part of the body to reroute blood around narrowed o...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...s on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per cent lower than a hospital carrying out 40 such operations. But this alone, does not explain the high death rates, which was a low-volume centre. Less than a fifth of the excess deaths at the Bristol Royal hospital during the early 1990s can ...

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