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New Vaccines To Combat Rotavirus

...cts, is a major step towards getting them put into wider use. Researchers hope that the vaccines, which are swallowed rather than injected, will become a routine part of the immunization repertoire given to babies alongside diphtheria and tetanus. "These results are really promising and very exciting," ...

What Will Primary Care Look Like In England by 2015?

...nge considerably, with larger practices offering a wider range of services and videophone consultations relieving the problems of access to some extent. The NHS would still be ostensibly free at the point of use, but patients have to pay for non-essential services including hotel charges in hospital. Fin...

Non-addictive antidepressant drug

...nt of an alternate line of antidepressants, with a wider range of effectiveness'. sourse EUREKA...

ESRC offers new dynamics for old in UK

...longer, contribute more to the economy, and have a wider role in the family amid increasing life expectancy, and the dynamics of ageing are changing as never before. In a move to tackle such challenges, the ESRC's ageing related research includes a major interdisciplinary research program - the New Dyna...

DNA Vaccine Trials Against HIV Virus In Sweden Nurture Hope

...nd third phase where it goes through progressively wider trials, among thousands of volunteers. More than 30 candidate AIDS vaccines are currently being tested worldwide. The increased financial grants for AIDS is said to have prompted for this global competition. Detractors have raised skeptical conc...

Hospital Cuts Costs By Moving Cancer Patients To Hotels

...the NHS trust plans to extend the scheme on a much wider scale. This is not only relevant for cancer care. The NHS trust is doing something similar with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, the largest neurology hospital in Britain, to which patients are referred from around the UK. On...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

...ports of adverse reactions to Tamiflu as part of a wider review of how medicines work in children. One question they will have to address is how to distinguish the effects of the drug from the effects of the flu. In a separate summary posted on the FDA web site, Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, said: T...

Lip Piercing Can Be Fatal

...ng was the cause, 'I hope that this today, and the wider attention the inquest has attracted, will cause anyone considering undertaking body piercing to stop and think twice about these risks,' she said in tears. She added that she intended to dedicate herself to educating teenagers about the risks involve...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

...rugs watchdog, to fast track its assessment of the wider use of Herceptin. Herceptin targets a protein called HER2, which appears to be over-abundant in some women's breast cancers. Controversy also is occurring over the usage of Herceptin with some believing that Herceptin treatment is only useful during ...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

...rich countries and the European Union for the much wider finance facility he says could double aid to the poorest countries to $100 billion a year. Italian Economy Minister Domenico Siniscalco acknowledged the scheme was a way of "borrowing from the future" but denied it was a gimmick, telling the news con...

Toxic chemicals found in domestic products poisoning newborn babies

...at this legislation was effective and called for a wider ban on potentially toxic chemicals’. Professor Andrew Shennan, consultant obstetrician and a spokesman for Tommy's - the baby charity - said: "It's not that surprising that we find in the blood things that are in the environment. Professor Andrew a...

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

...// Results suggest that the virus may play a much wider role in cancer than previously suspected. Dr. Janet Butel, a lead researcher of the study at Bayor College, No obvious risk factors have emerged for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the general population, but a viral cause has been postulated,'' said a grou...

Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan

...contribute towards dispensation of healthcare to a wider population," said a statement from the Japanese embassy. Notes concerning the project were signed and exchanged here Thursday by Japanese ambassador Yasukuni Enoki and Vivek Mehrotra, additional secretary in India's finance ministry. The grant wi...

Insight for Hot Flashes In Postmenopausal Women

...hese symptoms are generally absent in women with a wider thermoneutral zone, explains the Harvard Women’s Health Watch. The authors also discussed why the thermoneutral zone is narrower in women with hot flashes and strategies for managing symptoms, including hormone therapy, medications that affect brai...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...er said it should be integrated with the country's wider development policy. "In this context, I believe ...nless our population policy is integrated with our wider development policy, it can never achieve the objective of population stabilisation within a reasonab...

Leisure walks with low cardiovascular exercises work best for weight loss

...n they are at leisure, with swinging their legs in wider arcs. This, when coupled with heavier legs and wider stances are carried on for a mile or two, exert less pressure on the legs and joints and prevent art...

New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine

...than the injected liquid version and can withstand wider temperature extremes, in more extreme conditions without refrigeration. The vaccine has not yet been tested in humans, but investigators say clinical trials could be possible within the next two to three years.In laboratory tests using rabbits expos...

Eyes,The Window To The Future

...ertension in five years as compared to people with wider vessel openings. Researchers conclude saying that based on their findings of this study, visible changes in the eye may precede the development of severe hypertension. They say this sign could be a more stable measure of risk than other measures th...

Twins Less Prone to Suicide Than Others

... 1993 and compared their rates of suicide with the wider population. They found that the suicide rate was lower for twins, regardless of their sex.// The findings came as a surprise because other studies have suggested that twins are slightly more prone to mental health problems than other people. "This ...

Thalidomide may stage a comeback

...rful effects potentially for harm and good and its wider licensing will require extraordinary measures....

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