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Miracle Cancer Drug in the Pipeline

...n improve on that." Prof Parish said. The drug is slated to enter the third phase of the clinical trial, which will span a four year timeframe, to be tested on many patients worldwide. The good news is that the drug may also be priced reasonably. SV...

'Daronrix', Glaxo's Bird-flu Vaccine Approved by European Medicines Agency

...in combating the H5N1 virus strain. The product is slated to go in for approval in the subsequent weeks. This second generation vaccine is intended to strengthen the immune system, as a preventive measure against an imminent pandemic. The vaccine is doubly beneficial as it has been developed necessitating...

Pediatricians Stress the Importance of the National Children's Study

...llution, chemicals and pesticides. The project was slated to take off in 2007. But the budgetary plan of the US government seems to have thrown a spanner in the works. The budgetary plan did not include $2.7 billion, the cost of the study project. This move had raised the ire of both the House and Senate A...

Pumps Someday May Allow Patients to Recover Their Own Hearts

... devices (including a total artificial heart), and slated to participate in a worldwide study of a new, apricot-sized investigational device this year. The devices differ in size and portability – some patients on VADs must remain hospitalized while others are able to live at home with the implanted devic...

Mobile Phone and Cancer – A Detailed Study to Understand the Risk

Nearly 200,000 volunteers are slated to participate in a five-year study, to evaluate the risks of brain cancer, for long term users of the mobile phone// . Professor Lawrie Challis, an authority on mobile phone radiation, is in the final stage of discussion with the Department of Hea...

Ontario Government Invests $200 Million on Colorectal Cancer Screening

...d 50 to 74, promises to save many lives. The plan, slated to take-off in the beginning of 2008, will enable Ontarians to buy ‘home screening kits’ from their family physicians or pharmacists. Depending on the results of the self-screening tests, patients who portray abnormal results will be given priority f...

China Takes a Progressive Step Towards AIDS Prevention

...e International Labor Organization. The program is slated to cost $3.5 million. Hu Xiaoyi, vice-minister of Labor and Social Security, during the launch of the program said, "China is now at a critical stage in fighting HIV/AIDS. We should try our best to prevent the spread of the disease from high-ris...

Beauticians and Barbers can Do More Than Their Services

... as any doctor, drug or diagnostic test. A study slated for presentation this week at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference suggests beauty shops may be an ideal place to educate minority women about strokes. In the study, researchers gave lessons on stroke prevention and wa...

Osteopathic Medical Education Will Help With Shortages

...projected physician workforce shortages, which are slated to reach a critical point over the next 10-15 years. Barring significant changes in U.S. health care delivery systems, the gap between the nation’s demand for physicians and the number of physicians practicing medicine will exceed 50,000 by 2020. ...

Canada’s Conjoined Twins Growing Normall

...espite after four days of marathon tests. They are slated to undergo an angiography to determine whether a potential separation surgery will be viable. The neurosurgeon attending to them has explained that a separation surgery is fraught with risks....

Medical Records - Direct to Home With the New NHS IT System

...ea, but forms the core of the novel NHS IT system, slated to span the whole of// England. The medical electr...re NHS network." The home access medical system, slated to be introduced this year, can be accessed through the Health Space website. People will be given p...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

... South Asian Association for Regional Corporation, slated to commence at New Delhi, the Indian capital on April 3, the member countries would commit themselves to a tele-medicine project. Under the proposal, two hospitals in each of the eight member countries will be linked with two super speciality hosp...

Parents Asked to Produce More Babies in Australia

... simply double by 2047; people aged 85 or above is slated to triple. Yet, there is no commensurate increase in the number of working people in Australia. This is thought to exert pressure on the nation’s health, with rising health care costs. The government has offered a bait to parents to add to their f...

NHS Online- Promise Of ‘Choices’ To Patiens

... feedback on particular hospitals. This move is slated to help all UK National Health Service patients make choices about their healthcare and allow them to slot services around their needs and background....

US Senate Passes Stem Cell Research Bill

...funded studies of stem cells isolated from embryos slated for destruction at fertility clinics, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The vote capped 20 hours of often passionate debate, with proponents focusing on the cells' potential to help treat a wide range of diseases and opponents decrying the fa...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

...marish times. Since the presidential election is slated to take place next year, the healthcare situation is generating a lot of heated discussion. But none has come out any with any concrete action plan so far. At the San Fransisco meet, Clinton didn't advocate any solution to the health-care crisis....

BP and Prostate Problems Drug Effective in Treating PTSD Nightmares

...r studies of prazosin. One, a VA cooperative study slated to start this month, will enroll about 300 veterans at 12 VA facilities. The second, a collaborative study with Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Madigan Army Medical Center, will enroll active-duty soldiers who have trauma nightmares. The third st...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , is slated to be licensed for public use by 2009. The drug which trains the crosshairs on diseases caused by faulty genes, has been so far successful on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and cystic fibrosis. The drug is being tested on humans now after...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

... told IANS: "The Jaipur Foot centre in Colombia is slated to start in August." According to him, experts would go to Colombia with the required machinery. Initially three-fourths of the artificial foot would be made in Jaipur and the rest in Colombia. The entire production would shift to Colombia after a ...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...ying the donor lung crashed along with the doctors slated to perform the operations. We are relieved that we were able to do this transplant and give this man another chance for life, Dr. Jeffrey Punch, director of the division of transplantation at the University of Michigan, said in a statement. Our fri...

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