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Court Issues Notice to Venugopal Over Fund Irregularities

...had filed an application before the sessions court seeking direction to the magistrate court for expediting t...elhi, had filed the petition in the district court seeking direction for a vigilance probe against the respondents after registering a case against them for al...

Different Approach Needed to Protect Brains of Premature Babies

... "This model turns out to be a powerful tool for seeking out and testing new drugs, so we want to test a number of new pharmaceuticals to see if any can protect axons early in brain development," Goldberg says. Source-Newswise...

Court Refuses to Intervene for Law on Surrogate Motherhood

...Delhi High Court Wednesday asked a woman advocate, seeking judicial intervention for enactment of a law on the issue of surrogate motherhood and hiring of wombs// in India, to instead approach the government. A division bench of Chief Justice M.K. Sarma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed advocate Namita Ro...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

...tical giant Novartis AG went before the High Court seeking reversal of the Chennai-based Controller’s rejection of its patent application for its anti-cancer drug Glivec in January 2006. As per the Indian patent laws, appeals against rejection of a patent application should first go before the Appellate B...

Training Health Workers and Better Drug Access Vital to Combat TB in Mozambique

...r also visited Malawi and South Africa, said he is seeking proposals to be submitted to international donors in an effort to generate funding to combat TB. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation/B...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

...an Aviles. Bloomberg also expressed support for seeking new methods to combat the spread of HIV but said he is not convinced that government should be involved in promoting or providing male circumcisions. According to Bloomberg, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the city is very high, despite education ...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...ceptable to the pharmaceutical giants. They are seeking a balance like the one struck in the 1984 law, which fostered a booming generic drug industry while protecting the patent rights of brand-name drug makers — a crucial incentive for research on new drugs. It is also said that it would take several y...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...ege from the Maoists' women's organization that is seeking to have the programme axed on grounds that it treats women as sex objects. Scheduled to be held Saturday, the Miss Nepal contest's main sponsor is Dabur India's wholly-owned subsidiary Dabur Nepal. The pageant has run into fresh offensive from the ...

When ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Falls Agan

...n Program. It was seen that within six months of seeking medical attention after an injury, 2.4 per cent of the children were reported to have a subsequent head injury. Among those who sought medical attention specifically for a head injury, 3.2 per cent had a second head injury. That number increased to 5...

Teens Get Needed Access to Care With State Health Insurance

...g the percentage of all adolescents in the program seeking care with the same health care professionals up to about 95 percent -- an especially noteworthy boost up from 75 percent of black adolescents and 74 percent of Hispanic adolescents prior to enrollment.. In spite of these improvements, unmet health ...

GlaxoSmithKline Signs Outsourcing Deal With TCS

...cellence. Like many global companies GSK has been seeking to tap into India's pool of high-quality IT and scientific talent and is aiming to trim costs through outsourcing. GSK is also involved in research collaboration with India's Ranbaxy Laboratories, to jointly develop drugs in areas such as urology, d...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

...edure consists of two freezing and thawing cycles, seeking a frozen margin of approximately 5 millimeters beyond the tumor edge to ensure death of the entire tumor. After the cryoprobes are removed, small bandages are placed over the skin puncture sites, and the patient spends one night in the hospital befor...

‘Nursing’ a Dream in Foreign Lans

...ges, so that they are aware of the implications of seeking employment abroad....

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...lanned to start a massive awareness drive and also seeking a special fund to develop a new anti-TB drug. It is stated that at least two people die of the infectious disease every three minutes. Around 20 MPs have decided to form a group next month and to persuade other parliamentarians, from both houses,...

Hong Kong, Guangdong Province To Increase Joint HIV/AIDS Surveillance

... Lo, the new policy "discourages" sex workers from seeking medical care and creates a "greater public health risk." Guangdong offers medical checkups and treatment for HIV-positive people from both Guangdong and Hong Kong at 145 hospitals, according to China Daily. In addition, the Hong Kong health depart...

Phone-based Therapy Eases Depression Long Term

...ychotherapy to people with depression who were not seeking therapy may help them significantly,” said Ludman....and avoiding other people, can prevent people from seeking help. One in four depressed people who make appointments for in-person therapy are no-shows. “They s...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

... foreign and Indian doctors settled abroad are now seeking to relocate to India. The Artemis Health Science (AHS), a premier medical institution in Gurgaon, near India’s capital, New Delhi, says it is getting a lot of enquiries from foreign doctors in the United States and the European Union. Doctors o...

Due to Cost, Heart Attack Patients Often Avoid Follow-up Care and Medication

...reported that financial constraints kept them from seeking health care services. One in eight said a lack of funds kept them from filling prescriptions for vital medications. According to senior author Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., this financial barrier to care was a strong predictor of adverse outcomes, even a...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...Project executive director Kanika Singh. "People seeking information need a reliable source, particularly f... urban and semi-urban youngsters who shy away from seeking help. The help-line will initially run for a three-month trial period till April, and depending on t...

UK to Pull Pseudoephedrine

... The MHRA has issued a public consultation letter seeking opinion on the proposed restrictions, which would see the nasal decongestants converted to prescription-only and a reduction in pack size by the end of 2007. The move comes in response to the growing illicit use of OTC ephedrine- and pseudoephedrin...

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