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Galvus Soon To Be Seen On European Shelves

...tment for U.S. approval around the middle of 2009, while starting a new study later this year. "It (the study) will likely take until at least the end of 2008 to complete. And then we would propose to resubmit the dossier to the FDA sometime in mid-2009", Shannon was quoted....

MS Drug Fails The Test For Treating Crohns Disease

...xperts, suggests that the risks of contracting PML while using Tysabri could increase if a patient is also being given a drug that affects the immune system. If so, that raises the risks of treating Crohn's patients with Tysabri, because many have weakened immune systems. "Against the backdrop of PML, wh...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...n be picked up between the index finger and thumb, while other grips allow turning a key in a lock, holding a plate and handing over a business card. So flexible are the fingers that they can open the ring-pull of a soft drink can. Best of all, the wearer doesn't have to do the washing up as it's not to...

Zambia Opens First Cancer Hospital

...th the financial from several international donors while the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries will offer radiotherapy for cancer treatment. Health Minister Brian Chituwo said the hospital would also cater for patients from other African countries....

Tuberculosis Drug Increases OCD Therapy Progress

...ttes to smoke, and one group will receive the drug while another will receive the placebo, prior to therapy sessions. Participants will attend sessions once per week for four weeks, and they will be asked to smoke only the nicotine-extracted cigarettes in between the sessions....

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

...erits of user fees for basic health and education, while many aid groups argue that user fees deprive a major portion of the population of basic services and severely diminish standards of living. In public hospitals in Man and Bouak, Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without Borders) began providing free ...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...o-nonsense-executive, determined to have its way, while the court would be seen as the protector of the tr...erhaps understand the frustration of the mandarins while dealing with experts who have axe to grind, it is pointed out. In fact the growing Naxalism in cer...

Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel

... Houston and John Jones. They came across the idea while experimenting with carbon dioxide to help boost algae growth for fish farming, This box can be used for cars, buses, lorries. It can also be used at and buildings and heavy industry, including power plants. The box can be built small enough to replac...

Scientists Demonstrate Heart Cell Replication in Mice

...d with periostin was placed over the infarct site, while the rest received Gelfoam only. Twelve weeks later, the treated patches were still releasing biologically-active periostin. The periostin-treated rats had improved cardiac pumping ability, as indicated by increased ejection fraction and improved ve...

Blood Transfusions Does Not Increase the Risk of Cancer Transmission

...ve blood transfusions from people who donate blood while unaware of their cancers. Edgrens colleagues studied registry data regarding blood transfusions in Sweden and Denmark, and created a database from which they identified a group of exposed individuals, who had received donated blood from a person wh...

Becks Confesses Being Homesick, Craves for Pie and Mash

...ckham was filmed shopping, sunbathing and pouting, while telling the cameras: "It's exhausting being fabulous."...

Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Patient-friendly

...Friday. He was talking to the medical fraternity while demonstrating RP-F technology (high flexion rotati... specially designed suits (resembling space-suits) while operating. "Joint replacement basically means replacing painful, arthritic, worn or diseased parts...

Diarrhoea Claims Three Lives in Flood-hit Orissa

At least three people died of watery diarrhoea while over 200 were ailing from the disease in Orissa's ...mitted in different health centres in the district while health officials were taking care of others in their respective villages, additional district medica...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...verage - were recorded in Bankstown and Fairfield, while Blacktown and Canterbury were also noticeably less... the cases of 15 women who developed breast cancer while working at the ABC's Brisbane studios between 1998 and 2006. The dramatic peaks and troughs in th...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...odone-related deaths nationwide increased fivefold while the annual number of OxyContin prescriptions incre.... Some drug industry critics said Thursday that while the fines sent an important message, the amounts were far too low, given the vast profits from OxyCo...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

... licence, meaning GPs can prescribe it to patients while they wait for final guidance from Nice. Rimonaba... this warning. Any patient who develops depression while on the drug should stop the treatment, the EMEA said in its recommendation. An EMEA statement said...

Strange Marks on Poshs Legs Look Horrifying

...look horrifying. The Spice Girl was photographed while going for a shoot in harsh sunlight in Beverly Hills. Shes obviously lost weight. I suspect she works out, which is why on her thigh you can see in sharp relief the outline of the quads muscle, The Sun quoted Sun GP Carol Cooper, as saying. Meanw...

Jordan Sacks Her Nanny for Lying

...itter lied to her about visiting her dad in Wales, while she was actually holidaying in the Algarve. The model had to take care of her son Harvey as the nanny did not turn up, and was delayed for Radio One show, for which she was criticized by Chris Moyles. Jordan went straight to the nanny's cottage, ...

Lohans Boozing Stint in Rehab Exposed

...actress Lindsay Lohan got back to her boozing ways while still undergoing treatment in rehab for the second time . The actress guzzled vodka and Red Bull energy drink secretly during her 21st birthday in Promises rehab. Following the incident, furious rehab staff ordered the starlet to wear an alcohol-...

Chinese Eco-tourism Causing Infanticide Among Tibetan Monkeys

...tourism began in 1991. They also collected data while tourists visited the animals between 1992 and 2004, including a span in 2003 when tourism was suspended. Infant mortality was low prior to the advent of eco-tourism and was primarily caused by disease, the team found. Although they didn't witne...

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