Private Clinics on Public Land Must Treat Poor Free: Court
...the bench noted in its order. The government had submitted the Quereshi Committee report, which recommended forcing the private hospitals to provide free treatment to 10 per cent of the indoor patients and 25 per cent of the outdoor patients. The Quereshi committee was formed following a high court order o...Madhya Pradesh to Stop Sex Education in Schools
...ieve that the text material on the subject was not submitted before you in a proper manner or else you would have not approved it," Chouhan has written to the HRD minister. "Instead, the younger generation should be taught about yoga, Indian culture and its values." Some 3,000 of the 8,000 schools in the sta...Expert Panel Sets Limits on Pesticide Residues in Soft Drinks
... the report. The Ganguly panel’s report has been submitted to the Indian Supreme Court, which is hearing the issue of pesticides in colas. Stating that its report was in line with the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the matter, the expert panel warned that higher consumption o...Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists
...human primates has been conducted and will soon be submitted to a scientific journal for publication by colleagues at the US-based Naval Medical Research Center. Prida Malasit of the Medical Biotechnology Unit in Bangkok, Thailand, welcomed the development. "There is no doubt on the importance of having the ...Private Hospitals Ignore Deal to Provide Free Treatment
...reatment to poor patients,// according to a report submitted by the government to the Delhi High Court. The D...25 percent of the total patients. The government submitted the Quereshi Committee report, which recommended that the private hospitals be forced to provide fre...FDA Clears Breast Cancer Specific Molecular Prognostic Test
...n properly validated for its intended use. Agendia submitted data from a study using tumor samples and clinical data from 302 patients at five European centers. These studies confirmed that the test was useful in predicting time to distant metastasis in women who are under age 61 and in the two earliest sta...European Medical Research Still Ignoring Women
.... Before research can be carried out, it must be submitted to a research ethics committee to ensure that it complies with good ethical practice and is of sufficient quality. The authors found a great deal of variation in the regulations governing the committees they assessed. Some were governed locally; ot...Novavax Says Bird Flu Vaccines Effective
...ith the University of Pittsburgh, and the data was submitted for peer-review publication. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also will conduct live challenge studies using Novavax's VLP pandemic influenza vaccines, according to a company release. "We expect the CDC to further confirm these n...11 Percent Increase of Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes: Report
...ettes. This independent analysis, based on data submitted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) by the manufacturers, found that increases in smoke nicotine yield per cigarette averaged 1.6 percent each year, or about 11 percent over a seven-year period (1998-2005). Nicotine is the primary...Guidelines for Chronic Wounds Care
...rated into the guidelines by the committees, which submitted the guidelines to WRR in their final form this fall. 'The discourse continues and panel members responsible for the development of the guidelines welcome further discussion on treatments that have not been cited and hope that this process will be a...Ramifications of Widespread Use of Tamiflu
...s from Tamiflu identified at the time the drug was submitted for approval to the European Medicines Agency. The authors, however, suggest that the ecotoxicological risk associated with Tamiflu use needs to be reassessed in light of the hundreds of millions of courses that would be consumed globally during a pa...US Biotech to Invest $400 Mn in Himachal Pradesh
...founder and chief executive officer of Nanobiosym, submitted the project proposal to Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh over the weekend. "We have envisioned a project of over $400 million for Himachal to be carried out in a phased manner to manufacture DNA Diagnostics equipment to enable highly accurate and rel...Doctors And Staff Resign En Masse At Janakpur Zonal Hospital
...fter doctors and all staff members of the hospital submitted their resignation.// The resignation en masse was submitted on Sunday, citing failure of the local authorities to provide security to doctors – said senior phys...Schwarz's New Epilepsy Drug Reduces Seizures
...f Schwarz' executive board. "This trial will be submitted to the regulatory agencies in both the European Union and the (United States) as part of the marketing authorization application for lacosamide as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial seizures," Loew-Friedrich added. Around 2.3 million Americ...Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million
...to include her name as an author of the manuscript submitted to the journal Infection and Immunity even though the journal's editor himself had written to Chauhan that Lalitha's name should have been added. Source-IANS...Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated
...e recommendations of the Conclave are likely to be submitted to the Inter Governmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore to be held at Geneva as well as the International Regulatory Cooperation in Herbal Medicines (IRCH) set up recently under the aegis...Muscle wasting disease treatable using stem cell therapy
...litating disorder which causes wasting of muscles, submitted their findings// recently. The Stem cell Studies done by the team of Italian researchers seem to offer hope for those who suffer from the disease. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe progressive disease of genetic origin that results in mus...Bihar to get eight new private medical colleges
... open in Bihar as two US and six Indian firms have submitted proposals to invest in the health sector.// "The...to SIPB sources, two US firms, owned by NRIs, have submitted separate proposals for opening medical colleges in Patna. Medical World4U, a company owned by Asho......ra, said: “Samples have been taken on Thursday and submitted to the Institute for Animal Health.” Ms Reynolds said today: “Further negative laboratory test results for foot and mouth disease and swine vesicular disease mean that restrictions have been lifted on the slaughterhouse and the farm the pigs origin......red those who were in a control group. Dr King submitted her findings to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver after two years of study. For those who experience breast numbness and pain after surgery she had developed a special bra. Dr King informed "On the whole, the women loved it. It'...