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Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

...armaceutical and chemical companies, the hospitals run by state governments , the railways and the armed forces have been asked to purchase drugs from them to make them profit making units. According to the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers, Hindustan Antibiotics Limited, Bengal Chemicals and Pharm...

Ramdev Starts Yoga Camp in Shimla

...nsport department has made special arrangements to run buses to take yoga enthusiasts to the camp. A day before the course, Ramdev took a stroll on Shimla's downtown mall and mingled with hundreds of locals and tourists. He expressed concern at the increase in liquor and drug consumption in the state....

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

...ife style and successful smoking cessation in long run seem to protect from depressive symptoms. Though it is known that depression is associated with cigarette smoking, the nature of this association is discussed under various hypotheses. The first is that those who suffer from depressive symptoms smo...

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

...art of a BBC Horizon documentary, caused stores to run out of the product within days. A spokesman for the British Skin Foundation, said a type of vitamin A cream, known as Tretinoin, was already prescribed by dermatologists to treat skin ageing. "They work by improving the topmost layers of the skin, ...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

... letting potentially traumatized children have the run of the house can be disastrous. "Staying at home isn't the safest thing to do because parents not at home have to work. You might find students wandering around the streets or getting into trouble with friends, and being in situations where they mi...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...en changed anyway. A company is rarely required to run a corrective ad, and there is no other penalty for misleading the public. Thus, while the FDA sends hundreds of letters each year requiring drug companies to retract their ads, most people don't hear about them. The FDA does not require new drugs ...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...gen, and the latter can be fed into a fuel cell to run an electric car, or even used in an ordinary combustion engine. The method hinges on a mixture of 13 enzymes, normally found separately in plants, rabbits, bacteria and yeast, but never together in nature. According to Y-H Percival Zhang of Vi...

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...dangerous environments, females looking for a mate run great risks. Scientists from Seoul National Univer...have built hoods to males that have not. When they run across the beach to check out or mate with a male, they orient visually to both the waving male and ...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

...nts in their study, in an effort to make the trial run smoothly or to increase the chances that a favored treatment will show positive outcomes. Humphreys said such exclusions could have dangerous implications. "If treatments are tested on, and developed for, only part of the population, that means ev...

UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

...Inherited forms of breast cancer that are known to run in families account for between 5 and 10 per cent of cases. These genes - called BRCA1 and BRCA2 - were the first to be identified in the mid-1990s. Two of the four new genes are relatively common. For instance, between one in six and one in 16 women...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...e their checking accounts and suppress the urge to run naked down the street. In 2006, University of Pennsylvania researchers reported in Nature Medicine an altered signaling pathway for neuregulin-1 and ErbB4 genes in the brains of schizophrenics. Dr. Mei's findings show that these factors associated ...

UK Nurses Complain of Stress, One Quits After Screaming at Heart Attack Patient

...er paid. "Stress is a serious issue for nurses who run the daily gamut of violence and abuse from patients and relatives, as well as coping with the day-to-day pressures of having to do ever more with fewer resources because of deficit-led cost cutting. "When you add to that worries about job security ...

EU Pushes Asian Nations on Climate Change Goals

...sters who marched toward the summit venue in a dry run for next month's demonstrations at the G8 economic summit were stopped at a police cordon several streets from the venue. Hundreds of militants from the crowd later clashed with riot police, who used water cannons against protestors and made dozens o...

Natural Compound in Grapes, Tea and Cocoa Helps to Enhance Memory

...catechin. Half the mice in each group were made to run on a wheel for two hours each day. After a period of one month, the researchers trained mice to find a platform hidden in a pool of water. They noticed that mice who both exercised and ate the epicatechin diet remembered the location of the platfor...

Work-related Stress Restrains the Sex Lives of Nurses

...der paid. Stress is a serious issue for nurses who run the daily gamut of violence and abuse from patients and relatives, as well as coping with the day-to-day pressures of having to do ever more with fewer resources because of deficit-led cost cutting, the BBC quoted Dr Peter Carter, general secretary o...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

... Street knows that it's less expensive in the long run to finance a new company with great potential in its early developmental stages than for major industry players to buy in at the top after it is a success. Advanced Medical Optics recently purchased VISX, Inc. for $1.2 billion, and more recently In...

Step-Based Guidelines in New Pair of Studies

...o estimate the number of steps required to walk or run a mile at selected speeds is likely to help people who monitor their steps with a pedometer with the objective of increasing their fitness by working up the miles."...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...n the chest wall. Wires attached to the stimulator run under the skin to two electrodes that are put in through small holes in the skull and joined to the bone. The stimulator, which can be operated by the patient, carries electrical current to the electrodes. Depending on its force and frequency, the ...

Research into Anti-epileptic Drugs Given to Children for Long Term Safety

...diatric Pharmacy Research, a collaborative project run by the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. The American Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health have been leading the process for paediatric...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

...lize it is unethical. "Yoga can't be owned and run like a company. Since there are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the Indian government and yoga organizations should take measures to prevent it," Swami Ramdev, a leading Indian yoga expert, said recently....

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