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Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

...der, enabling life over near-death situations, has won India world-wide acclaim, apart from cementing troubled relationships across borders. The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry today is worth a whopping 4 million dollars, and is growing at almost 9% yearly. India is one of the leading global players in...

Better Nutrition in Schools Boosted by $12m Fund

...3-million-a-year Nutrition fund. The Green Party won the four-year, $12 million Nutrition Fund as part of its support agreement with the Labor-led Government. Schools and early childhood centers will be able to apply for support in promoting fruit for students, water-only environments and healthier ...

Indian American Surgeon Wins US "Genius" Award

An Indian-origin surgeon writer Atul Gawande has won a "no strings attached" $500,000 "genius" award from America's prestigious John D & Catherine T MacArthur Foundation//. Gawande, 40, whose many articles and essays on medicine in The New Yorker have made him one of the most recognised of American wr...

E. Coli's Salad Days

... have influenced health worldwide. Finlay recently won the Flavelle Medal, the Royal Society of Canada's highest honor. Source-Newswise SRM...

Two Americans Share 2006 Nobel Medicine Prize

Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello of the US have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine in recognition of their discovery //of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA, it was announced here Monday. The Karolinska Institute cited their discovery of RNA interference in awarding them the 10-million-krono...

When Her Lot is maligned by HER-2, Staying Abreast is Imperative

...et, as a virulent breast cancer strain that can be won over only with awareness, timely detection, and early treatment//. Among the many types of breast cancer, HER2, an aggressive type of breast cancer is detected in almost one in 5 women. HER2, which represents the human epidermal growth factor recep...

Kids Help Other Kids to Protect Their Hearing from Personal Music Devices

...Reed, David Ahlstrom, and Brandon Kieft, the Seven won first prize in Michigan's statewide Project Citizen competition, in which they researched the risks of NIHL from personal music players, suggested preventative measures, and then pursued the solutions they determined to be most effective. In their ...

Border Security Force Troopers Turn To Yoga

...ooper posted in Tripura: "After practicing yoga, I won a gold medal in the marathon event at the BSF national level competition." Added Jayapaul: "The boys are under duress. The rise in the number of suicides in the different forces is an issue of concern. I believe yoga can go a long way in relieving t...

New drugs for resistant forms of TB

...nt in the fight against TB but this fight could be won only if southern countries have significant human resources on the fight against tuberculosis," Billo said. Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest curable infectious respiratory disease that spreads by coughing and sneezing. According to the World H...

Renowned Novelist Styron passed away

...Darkness" and "The Confessions of Nat Turner,"that won him the Pulitzer among protests. His other books included "Sophie's Choice," an award-winning novel, "A Tidewater Morning," book of essays called "This Quiet Dust," and the best-selling memoir "Darkness Visible." GYT...

Aung San Suu Kyi complains of irregular medical visits

...hich Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won by a landslide. On Saturday, Gambari also met with SPDC chief Senior General Than Shwe and Vice Chairman Maung Aye in the country's new capital of Naypyitaw, 300-km north of Yangon. Their talks covered a range of political and humanitarian issues...

Anti-Cancer Drug Shows Early Promise in Pulmonary Hypertension

...cancer patients demonstrated improved survival, it won FDA approval in December 2005. Now, in a surprise finding, it appears to have a use in treating this cardiovascular disease. In pulmonary hypertension, the vessels that carry blood from the heart to the lungs constrict. Their walls thicken, which...

US Orders More H5N1 vaccine

...o make 2 million doses of H5N1 vaccine Sanofi also won a $100 million contract in September 2005 to make ... acquired Chiron Corp earlier this year, which had won a $62.5 million H5N1 vaccine contract award from HHS in October 2005. GSK reported that the compan...

Spiritual Leaders Join Together to Fight Against HIV/AIDS in India

... between the care giver and the community. We have won that trust, and our mobile clinics are able to offer assistance in remote rural areas', he added. 'It is also very important to ensure that no discrimination is made on the basis of religion in giving care to HIV/AIDS victims, said Vasudev. Sujat...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...fight against cancer that may begin – and could be won or lost – well before a person is ever born. And some of the protective benefits may last into adulthood. "Research of this type is still in its infancy, but it's pretty exciting," said David Williams, an LPI researcher and director of the Marine an...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...fight against cancer that may begin – and could be won or lost – well before a person is ever born. And some of the protective benefits may last into adulthood. "Research of this type is still in its infancy, but it's pretty exciting," said David Williams, an LPI researcher and director of the Marine ...

Britain’s Hearts in Good Care – Deaths Due to Heart Disease Falls by 3%

...ose below 75 years of age. This is half the battle won and the goal of the NHS to realize a 40% reduction in the CHD deaths by 2010 is not a distant dream. Cholesterol restraining statins and reduction in smoking has influenced the survival rates of CHD considerably. The report named “Shaping the futu...

South Asian Sisters Bring Mental Illness Out of Closet

...Earlier in 2006, the only Muslim sister filmmakers won an award from NBC Universal for their short film "Modern Day Arranged Marriage". In "Hiding Divya", her first feature film as both writer and director, Rehana Mirza wanted to tackle a very layered and complex story with emotional depth, yet with som...

Kerala To Probe Hospital Equipment Rotting In Kochi Port

... by Dr. M. Anirudhan, a US-settled businessman who won an award at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the annual diaspora meet held in New Delhi. Anirudhan disclosed that he had sent equipment like wheelchairs, stretchers and several other apparatus to five government run hospitals. News reports indicated t...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

...iety in Chicago earlier this year, where the study won the title of Best Resident Clinical Research Award. The beavertail modification meant that 95 per cent of the 20 patients who completed the study (there were 36 originally) were able to swallow successfully after one year of tongue reconstruction. ...

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