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Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

...ity for making polyethylene, Mr. T.T. Raghunathan, vice chairman said. Courtesy: The Hindu, 14/05/2001...

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

...were more likely to report an alcohol problem, and vice versa - backing other research showing the two addictions are often linked. These findings suggest that perhaps it would be worthwhile asking patients who smoke about their alcohol use, as these may be vulnerable to a deterioration in their condition...

FDA panel refuses anti-viral cold remedy

...sible under the brand name Picovir. Mark McKinlay, vice president of research and development for Viro Pharma, says the drug isn't dead. The company plans to meet with the FDA in coming weeks to see what steps they need to take to get approval....

Putting cancer risk with a vision

...d Donald L. Trump, chairman of medicine and senior vice president for clinical research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. Trump said clinical researchers might also find use for the charts. "It is important for investigators to begin to realize that in certain situations, the risks of com...

Teens Misusing Nicotine-Replacement Products

...d in the survey.Study co-author Dr. Karen Johnson, vice chairwoman of the department of preventive medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, became interested in the products during a visit to a store in Memphis. Although federal officials wanted to keep the products out of reach of mino...

Link Between Obesity and Behavior in Kids

...e need to address his or her mental well-being and vice versa for kids with behavior problems"...

Diabetes diagnosis may be the signal for psychiatric illness in children

...ses the chances of incidence of mental illness and vice versa. Diabetes type 2 happens when body cannot use its own insulin to control blood sugar. As this happens the body becomes unable to produce enough insulin to overcome insulin resistance and keep up to the need of the body. The study shows that ...

New findings come to light about monkeypox

...ead of diseases from the animals to the humans and vice versa. Reference: Virology, July 2005...

Serevent, to be examined by experts due to deaths associated with its use

...pared to those taking a placebo, pulmonologist and vice president of Glaxo's respiratory medicine development center, defended Serevent, saying that the drug had actually proven to be very effective. However she suggested that Serevent patients should take it with corticosteroids and those who do not coul...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

...ated with increased birth weights of newborns, and vice versa. Researchers have examined about 1000 cases of women and their newborns and published their results in the recent edition of British Journal of Nutrition. About one in every thirteen babies have a chance of being of low birth weight and devel...

New contact lens materials

... H. Dwight Cavanag, senior author of the study and vice chairman of ophthalmology and associate dean for clinical services at Southeastern, said study results provide a firm biological foundation for increased prospective safety of the new silicone hydrogel lens materials. According to Cavanag and his s...

The 'bitter' proteins

...may worsen the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and vice versa, and understanding this interaction could improve treatments for these conditions, say US researchers. Although both diseases are distinct neurological disorders, up to one-third of Alzheimer’s patients develop Parkinson’s and some Parkinson’s ...

Genetic failure in cloned animals

...a terrible problem,'" Scholer said. Robert Lanza, vice president of medical and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., which conducts reproductive cloning in animals, also concurred. The new study is "further scientific grounds to ban all human reproductive cloning," he t...

Time to look into the SPF of your sunscreen

...r IPF, could in fact increase skin cancer risk and vice versa. Considerable progress has to be made before standardization of qualities for an ideal skin protectant rather an immunoprotectant will be arrived at....

Negative Effects Of Sedatives

...re that the benefits outweigh the risk rather than vice versa." she said. --IANS...

Vaccine For Dengue Fever On Trial In Asia-Pacific

...this is an issue of major public need," said Bock, vice president and director of clinical research for GSK biologicals in the Asia-Pacific, Australasia, China, Hong Kong and Japan. At the end of last month, more than 12,700 people in Singapore had been afflicted by the viral disease spread by the Aedes ...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...n Bangalore and Kolkata," Vishal Bali, the chain's vice president, told IANS. Unlike the existing 110-bed cardiac care hospital in Bangalore, the second hospital will be a 400-bed unit focusing on cardiology, orthopaedics, neuro-surgery and women's health. The construction of the new hospital is to be c...

Family planning is insisted upon Muslims by Shia cleric

All India Muslim Personal Law Board vice president Mr. Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq insisted Muslims to practice family planning on a three-day convention on Empowerment of Muslim Women//. He said that family planning is not restricted for Muslims and the use of pills by women and condo...

Mexico and US border attain a new outlook due to BiNational Sustainability Laboratory

The vice president of Sandia National Laboratories, Gerry Yonas was the first to visualize a need for laboratories in the Mexican border. This led to the development of the BiNational Sustainability Laboratory (BNSL), which extends over an area of 4000 squa...

Social Bonds And Good Sleep Help The Elderly

...any friends and other positive social contacts and vice versa, the researchers said. The women who participated in the study submitted to numerous blood tests, gave general information about themselves and spent a night in a clinic where researchers tested their sleep patterns. The researchers plan a s...

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