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HIV Patients Opposes Patenting Of AIDS Drug

...pur Network of Positive People Thursday officially submitted their opposition to a patent application filed at the Kolkata patent office by GlaxoSmithKline. The opposition is based on technical and health grounds. 'We are objecting to the patenting of Combivir - a fixed-dose combination of the two essentia...

British fertility clinics have low success rates

...e test tube babies 128 years ago. According to the submitted data for the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) table Britain takes the 17th position among 23 countries. The data shows that British clinics have the highest rate of complications caused by specialized drugs used for in...

Breast Cancer More Serious For Younger Patients

...tionate percentage of deaths. According to a study submitted by the doctor and colleagues at the 5th European Breast Cancer Conference in Nice, France,they that the odds of dying from breast cancer rose by 5 percent for every year that a woman was under 45 when diagnosed.The studies were mainly focused on woma...

TB on the Rise

...ion from various networks of laboratories would be submitted which would enable samples from across the country to be compared. Hence by administering these measures properly one can monitor and control TB....

OpenMED Nominated For Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award

...ld". Over the years, some 3,000 projects have been submitted for this award. Finalists are still being announced and there is still a long way to go for a win. But the finalist status for the Indian project marks recognition of it being innovative in some way. To self-archive their scientific and technical...

Task Force Set Up By PM To Fill Up The Healthcare Sector

...is based on the recommendations of a recent report submitted by National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, highlighting the huge gap in human resources in the health sector. "There are growing opportunities with India emerging as a major international centre for low cost health care. The fact that Ind...

Norfolk PCTs To Offer Herceptin

... for her-2 gene. "We made the business case and submitted it to the therapeutic advisory groups, and the primary care trusts have backed the package," confirmed Simon Pain, consultant breast surgeon at the N&N. "About one in five women with breast cancer will be sensitive to Herceptin. We will test every br...

India Crowned As the Diabetic Capital

... said this in the Lok Sabha election meeting. He submitted a draft of the programme to the Planning Commission. The commission is working on it to make it workable. The programme’s main aim is to reduce the adverse impact of heart diseases, stroke and diabetes on the community. According to the statistics...

US Preparing To Answer Japan's Queries On Beef Exports

... the questions from Japan about the report that we submitted a few weeks ago," Johanns told reporters. “I did not see anything in those questions that was terribly surprising. We should have that information back to Japan maybe even as early as next week. The process continues to go along very well." Japan ban...

Hospitals Health Insurance Scam Uncovered

...ical institutions' requests for insurance coverage submitted to the agency affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. It was found that in about 29.2 % or 3248 cases the hospitals had overcharged their patients for health insurance coverage. The patients then received about 1.48 billion as medical r...

Soda Consumption: An Unhealthy Trend Among Adolescent Girls

...e or ten year’s upto age 19. The records were then submitted for observation and analysis during their annual visit to the clinic. Alarmingly, a three-fold increase in the soda intake was observed in both the groups. Infact, soda was the number one beverage consumed by girls in the older age group. A 25% par...

Chromium Exposure: Health Risk Of Workers Ignored

...to workers were largely under-reported. A paper submitted by George Washington University and Public Citizen highlighted the incomplete data published with respect to hexavalent chromium and lung cancer. The results of the study can be found in the Environmental Health journal. The carcinogenic chemical w...

Bihar Government Dismissed Doctors For Negligence

...doctors against whom the district magistrates have submitted complaints. --Edited IANS...

Needle-Free Injection System Ideal for Pandemic Outbreaks

...ther than the U.S. The Med-Jet injector has been submitted for FDA approval, which, if accepted, will allow MIT to sell the Med-Jet in the United States. The Company is working to complete two FDA filings. The first of these will be for use of the Med-Jet for injecting anesthesia in a variety of situations s...

Private Health Care in Canada May Not Be A Distant Dream

...x months or more to the patients. The plan will be submitted to the provincial Legislature for is approval before summer begins. ...

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

...al and toxic effects. An application would soon be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding proceeding with clinical trials of the investigational new drug (IND). If promising results are obtained, we could soon have an anti-tuberculous drug for treatment of MDR-TB....

Increased Funding For AIDS/HIV Program In Africa

...sented the annual budget in the National Assembly, submitted the proposal. The minister also said that care of children orphaned by AIDS/HIV would deserve the utmost social service priority of the African Government. The year 2006 has even been declared as the 'year of accelerated prevention of HIV', that wo...

Indian National in Saudi Jail will be released soon

...als from Saudi Arabia called us and said they have submitted all the papers to the jail authorities,” suggesting his release next week. Naushad, 34, has been imprisoned since 2003 after he caused injury to a Saudi National following a heated fight, leading to the loss of the Saudi national’s eye. Naushad woul...

Students Seek Help From Prisoners for Kidnapped Child's Release

...he busy roads in the town. Later, a memorandum was submitted to top government officials....

Corruption and Fraud in Health Care system

...ing on public health care into miserable. A report submitted by Transparency International on the situation of Global // Health has reported their findings in a report Global Corruption Report 2006 that reveals the pathetic situation of health care which has been hounded by corruption in all levels in hospital...

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