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AMA Urges Government To Amend Aged Care Legislation

...a comprehensive risk management strategy. “This strategy would include behaviour management plans and staff training and education, and should be incorporated into the Aged Care Standards, then monitored accordingly,” Dr Haikerwal said. “Of course, aged care providers should report to the police any inc...

NHS Leaner by 11000 Employees

... load, it would be indeed be frustrating. A better strategy will be to evolve a pragmatic recovery programme rather than to resort to drastic job-cuts. In the words of Dr Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), "These alarming figures confirm what the RCN has long been warning...

WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

...e needs the intervention of experts to chalk out a strategy that is specific for a particular nation. Some of the measures discussed in the conference included bar codes, holograms, digital water marks and radio tags. Zucker pointed to the internet as the main reason for the spread of fake drugs business in...

Pacemaker Patients Should Be Screened for Sleep Apnea

...nal studies are needed to define optimal treatment strategy for pacemaker patients who have obstructive or central sleep apnea. Source-EurekalertBR>PRI...

Circumcision May Lift HIV Risk for Women

...artment. "Circumcision is an additional prevention strategy rather than a replacement for anything else." Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Major Gene Study Uncovers Secrets of Leukemia

...ncrease the survival rate of ALL.” One potential strategy for eliminating leukemic cells would take advantage of the discovery that mutations in the B-cell differentiation pathway are predicted to prevent progenitors from changing into normally functioning lymphocytes. Normally, the body eliminates differen...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

...ith1290 Cr ear-marked for the purpose ? The strategy for Polio Elimination has been revised, especial...am. ? The finance minister has also announced a strategy to popularize condoms and make the accessibility of blood screening universal . ? The recen...

Sleep Well, Have a Healthy Heart !

...rtant and often neglected component in the overall strategy to improve sleep, cardiovascular outcomes and general well being," said Nicholson, who added that reaching out to people about the importance of sleep may result in a decline in the number of reported cardiovascular diseases. Those who think they m...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

... to destroy their tumors. It is believed that this strategy could actually offer a novel way of treating sever...vated. Results of this study suggests that this strategy could be applied to other viruses associated with tumors, and that other drugs may potentially be us...

New Screening Protocol Identifies More Case Of Lynch Syndrome

... "Although a population-based mutation-screening strategy has the potential to also identify nonfamilial HNPCC patients, more patients will need to be screened," the authors write. "…The most important advantage with the family history-based selection process we used is that non-HNPCC families are also iden...

WHO Awards Prequalification Status to the First UAE Approved Vaccine

...infection and is considered the optimum first line strategy for disease prevention. The Rotarix vaccine is a two-dose, oral vaccine that is administered at approximately two and four months of age to offer early protection against rotavirus infection. The vaccine has already been licensed in 90 countries an...

Discovery Leads to Way to Curb Anthrax Effect

...drug or therapy then you would have an antianthrax strategy that would be an effective way to treat infection. That is one reason this has been exciting,” Byers said. The research also could lead to a way of detecting purposeful release of anthrax. If petrobactin is found, then there’s a presumption there w...

Researchers Discover Potential Targets To Reduce Risk Of Stem Cell Transplants

...patients who receive stem cell transplants//. This strategy may also help patients with genetic and autoimmune...ed and Dr. Kerr has shown that a genetic treatment strategy called RNA interference (RNAi) can also be used to turn the SHIP gene off. Other scientists have sho...

Inflammation can Lead to Cancer

...une disorders." Coussens envisions a therapeutic strategy similar to treating people with HIV. The goal would not be to necessarily eliminate every last cancer cell, but to control the inflammation process needed for the cancer to progress to a more threatening stage. The new UCSF finding comes from studi...

Targeting the Adrenal Gland Could Be Key Against Heart Failure

...n addition to the heart – provides a potential new strategy against heart failure, and could lead to a new class of drugs. The researchers, led by Walter Koch, Ph.D., W.W. Smith Professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Translational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical Col...

A Single Biological Mechanism Behind Several Autoimmune Disorders

... such a mechanism may lead to a common therapeutic strategy for these conditions. According to Dr. Smith, "We continue to build a body of evidence that suggests that a single biological mechanism can activate a variety of autoimmune diseases. It is possible that these findings will allow us for the first ti...

Scientists Boost Production of Cheap Malaria Drugs

...t that the cultivation method could help develop a strategy for using Artemisia annua as a traditional herbal tea to tackle malaria for poor communities who cannot access or afford to pay for antimalarial products developed by the pharmaceutical industry. A separate study explored new technologies to make ...

PAHO Urges Readiness for Dengue Outbreaks in 2007

... control measures. "Paraguay has a comprehensive strategy for preventing and controlling dengue and has the ability to respond in an integrated way to this increase in cases," said San Martín, noting that the country had responded effectively to outbreaks in 2006. Dengue outbreaks in Latin America have fo...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...g said the research group is using this analytical strategy to identify gene pairs that can predict which GIST patients respond to Gleevec and how other types of cancer respond to treatment as well. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Generic Drug Utilization On The Rise

... generics where they are available as an important strategy to keep the new drug benefit affordable over the long term," Norwalk emphasized. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

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