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MS Drug Fails The Test For Treating Crohns Disease

...ed immune systems. "Against the backdrop of PML, where you have a set of patients that already get bombarded with immunosuppressants over 20 to 30 years, [Crohn's] is not the first place we'd go to develop Tysabri," states Mullen. According to him, the drug looks more promising as a treatment for Lupus a...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...e 1-3% of people who reduced use in control groups where no NRT was given, says lead researcher Lindsay Stead, who works at the Department of Primary Care at Oxford University. Secondly they found no proof that the treatments that aimed to help people decrease their use diverted them from attempting to s...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...a pair of electrodes which sit on top of the skin, where they pick up signals destined for the absent hand. The signals are transmitted to a tiny computer housed in the back of the artificial hand and controls the motors hidden in the fingers. Small objects such as coins can be picked up between the ...

Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...on dollar hospital project in impoverished Malawi, where health care is dogged by poor facilities and a bra...uring his one-day visit, Chaponda added. Malawi, where 60 percent of the 12 million citizens live below the poverty line of less than a dollar a day, faces...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

...nist, MDRF, said this giving an example of an Idli where the proportion of urad dal and rice is not the same in each house hold. M. Rema, MDRF vice-president, said a GI database for Indian foods could be useful in probing linkages between a high GI and diabetic complications, especially diabetic retinopa...

Gaps In Food Safety Systems Must Be Plugged :UN

...t often do not include or cover primary production where many problems originate. They noted for example the spread in recent years of new Salmonella strains in poultry, which originated in developed countries and was spread globally through trade. FAO and WHO support the performance of food inspection, ...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

... levels of dog fighting: the street fighting level where other crimes are involved such as drugs, weapons, ... basement, garages, warehouses, even in apartments where they used the doors to block a doorway and build a pit," Roach said. "They use treadmills to train...

New Treatment Boosts Survival Chances for Child Leukaemia

...ops significantly in infants aged under 12 months, where it falls to a range of 17-45 percent. Dutch doctors carried out a study of 482 infants from 22 countries who were aged under one year and had been diagnosed with the disease. In addition to the standard drug for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia -- a...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...fronting the problem at a local level. In India, where the estimated number of HIV cases was this month halved to 2.5 million, the government has set out to target the type of at-risk groups identified by Cooper. "They're talking about upscaling programmes with marginalised groups," said Anjali Gopalan...

EU Drug Regulator Highlights Depression Danger of Weight-loss Pill

...sent to doctors prescribing drugs in the countries where the drug in being sold....

Clubbers Stunned by Mick Jaggers Boozy Bash

... missing girls in his party so he reportedly asked where the women went missing. According to a source, Jagger had the most expensive beverages and a group of girls who arrived after some time were directed towards his table. "He ordered the most expensive drinks. A group of girls who had just arrived ...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

... cars, and will transport them back to Kazakhstan, where they came from. Firefighters sprayed fire-suppress...and health threat is sending jitters down Ukraine, where the memories of the 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still hang afresh....

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

...r of consultations in four facilities in the west, where it provided free services, were 20 percent higher than the number of consultations in all the 79 centers in the region before the war when people used to pay. "We [at MSF] try as much as possible to provide the data to point out that the real need ...

Artificial Trans Fat Banned in Chain Restaurant in King County

...utrition information on menus everywhere, not just where they are required to do so by law. Many restaurants are already abandoning partially hydrogenated oil for deep-frying and baking, and the rest need not wait for more of these measures to pass to get rid of it altogether. Opponents were most vehemen...

Clinical Trials Registry Launched in India

...launched The Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI) where all clinical trials conducted in India would be registered. These trials are conducted to test efficacy of new drugs. The national registry will make the trails more transparent. It is the first such initiative in Asia. Any researcher who plans ...

Sleep in Mary, Queen of Scots Bed for 7,500 Pounds a Night!

...and created 11 suites, including the Lady's Bower, where guests can sleep in the 500-year-old bed said to h...nstairs drawing-room. Castles and hunting lodges where guests can experience the country-house lifestyle, are an important part of a business tourism marke...

101 Websites That can Change Your Life Enlisted

...mation-Dr. Foster, NHS Direct and Patient Opinion, where patients can complain or compliment medical staff-have also been included on the list. Besides, the list is also helpful for people who are searching of a yoga teacher. The Which? list also includes several sites on the environment and green issues...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

...ough a vein in the groin and guided into the heart where they deliver an electric current to specific areas...a few years away, but he could envisage a scenario where a skilled operator could oversee multiple operations happening at once....

Scientists Demonstrate Heart Cell Replication in Mice

...re congenital heart disease eventually hit a place where the heart isn't pumping adequately," Kuhn says....

Centre Asks States to Conserve Water

... Water Congress will be held here on September 11, where some of the success stories on water management would be explained to the nation. The major disadvantage is that surface water is not being utilised optimally, said a statement of the Water Recourses Ministry issue today. It also suggested that f...

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