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A million Pound Public consultation - declared a sham!!

...ken the form of "expenses", costing on the whole a whopping ￡151,300. The taxpayer also paid travel and hotel accommodation for the consultation’s “summit” in Birmingham, but the Department of Health has refused to reveal that bill. A few of the participants confessed that they were "only there for the money"...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Soaring Due To Unsafe Sex

...the last five years has drastically increased by a whopping forty per cent, according to a survey report prepared by the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR).Another thousand new cases of AIDS is expected to cloud the sub-continent in this year according to the reports. A consi...

Grant Encourages Drug Testing Sans Animals

...he University of Manchester, well supported with a whopping 130,000￡ as a financial grant. Gauging the carcinogenic effects of new drugs are often fruitless using current parameters which further necessitates the use of live animals to establish their safety. Gentronix , a research company founded by Dr Ric...

Doctor Dissuades Mothers from Umbilical Cord Banking

...al with personal cord blood banking services for a whopping fee of 2,784 pounds, which is not recommended by many organizations like the Royal College of Obstetricians, and Gynecologists (RCOG) who point out an obvious lack of scientific base and umpteen logistical anomalies that creep in for NHS providers. ...

Old Wine in New Wine Skins!

...ina tops the population charts of the world with a whopping 1.3 billion figure billed against it. MST...

Fighting Fat in Food to Keep Fit

...ucts. The figures from the FDF books speak about a whopping ￡1.5 billion worth of products, under the axe, with the fat portion cut-off for the good health of posterity. Transfat as the name suggests is unsaturated fat that is linked to coronary heart disease and many other lifestyle diseases. Brands who ha...

Face – off! This ain’t no Sci-i

...tead of expecting the NHS to be burdened with this whopping cost. Doctors claim that the recipient’s face will not completely change over to the donor’s face but would be a hybrid of the two. <B...

Estimated cost of lifetime AIDS treatment assessed to be $618,900

...ell. Cost of treatment has been projected to be a whopping $2,100 every month for an individual suffering from HIV infection.75% of the life time expenses would thereafter be on account of the drugs that are needed. However if treatment starts very late then an individual would run into greater expenses to ...

Novel Plans Of FDA To Monitor Safety Of Medical Devices

...able in the market today in the U.S accounts for a whopping $ 80 billion annually generating phenomenal profits for big firms such as Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific. Unlike medicines which are tried and tested through rigid series of clinical tests before they are introduced into the general ...

Drug for bleeding disorder given to U.S soldiers

...e U.S to treat hemophiliacs. A single dose costs a whopping $6,000 in the U.S. MST...

Oncology Drug Pemnat Launched By NATCO

...e imported version of the same medication, costs a whopping Rs 79,000. This marks the launch of the first ever generic version of Pemetrexed, in the global arena. The drug Pemetrexed was formulated before 1995.The Company is quite sure that this new generic version will not get entangled in any litigation ...

'Red'y to Fight HIV – 'AbstinenceBehaviorCondom', Sacrosanct to AIDS Preventio

...ding for vaccines and microbicides, estimated at a whopping figure of $500m annually. This deficit can be compensated if all the global players combine their collective forces, to bridge the gap. Importantly, the perceptible impediments to AIDS prevention, in the form of reluctance to participation in clin...

$ 8.1 Million Grant to Tackle Bioterrorism

...College of Wisconsin at Madison has been granted a whopping $8.1 million to develop a tool kit that would identify agents of bio terrorism// like the H5N1 virus. This was announced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It has been said that the Avian influenza or the H5N1 virus has t...

Ontario Government Invests $200 Million on Colorectal Cancer Screening

...early stage. The Ontario government is investing a whopping $200 Million on a screening program for colorectal cancer. This plan will adopt two crucial approaches, targeting men above fifty years of age. The envisaged five year screening program for men aged 50 to 74, promises to save many lives. The plan, ...

South Dakota Hospital Receives $400 Million from a Philanthropist

...man and CEO of United National Corp. has donated a whopping $400 million to Sioux Valley Hospital at South Dakota. //This money is intended for research in health care, medical education and children’s health. Sioux Valley Hospital has already received $16 million from Sanford in the year 2003 to support ...

Omega-3 Again Linked to Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk

... may cut the risk of colorectal cancer in men by a whopping 66 per cent, but only in men not taking// aspirin, suggests new research. Omega-3 has been identified as one of the super-nutrients taking the food and supplements industry by storm. Much of its healthy reputation that is seeping into consumer cons...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...virus," Singh told IANS. The response has been a whopping 25,000 SMSs since its launch in February. That is hardly surprising, given that India is home to an estimated 5.2 million HIV/AIDS patients, officially second only to South Africa, though unofficially it is said to have the highest incidence of the...

Tuberculosis Drug Resistance 'alarming' in India

...e forerunners. "After Russia that has recorded a whopping 41 percent drug resistance among the re-treatment category, India and South Africa are facing the wrath with 20 percent of the patients of the same category at risk," said GHA president Bobby John. Countries with over 10 percent risk include Brazil...

Ray of Hope for Women on Motherhood Day

...highest number of maternal deaths in the world - a whopping 70,000 per year. But Gogoi, the national coordinator of WRA, says even the slow decline in numbers provides a ray of hope. "If you compare the Sample Registration Survey (SRS) data conducted in 1998, the maternal mortality ratio was 407. By 2006, t...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

... to figure out what a physician's price is." The whopping sales recorded by the Canadian pharmaceutical industry which generated $17.8-billion last year is ample evidence to the relationship between doctors and medical representatives. A pharmaceutical watchdog in Canada is keen on regulating this connectio...

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