Anti-osteoporosis Drugs Could Result in Irregular Heart Rhythm, New Study
...osteoporosis focuses on Reclast. Novartis recently won approval to sell Reclast, known generically as zoledronic acid, for Paget's disease, another bone condition. The company hopes to get an OK later this year to sell it for osteoporosis use. The new study, funded by Novartis, shows that Reclast works...New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval
...e US based drug manufacturers Gilead Sciences have won FDA approval for a new drug to treat a life-threatening lung disease. Key words: pulmonary arterial hypertension, liver injury, birth defect risks, death, heart failure, breath, rare disease, impotence pill, Viagra, endothelin, receptor, antagonists,...Bengal Teenager to Participate in World Oncology Camp
A Bengali teenager, who won his battle with cancer, is all set to fly to United States to share the story of his recovery from the deadly ailment. Bidurin Chakraborty, a class 12 student of Boy's High School in Siliguri, about 600 km from the state capital, is completely cur...SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture
...omic costs of alcohol consumption at 20.1 trillion won (21.59 billion dollars) in 2005, he said, without ...of how this figure was reached. About 2.7 trillion won of this was spent to treat illnesses linked to excessive drinking, the ministry said. An earlier stu...Man Contracts Deadly Bird Flu Virus in Vietnam
... by bird flu with 42 deaths. The country, however, won international applause for its transparency and effectiveness in curbing the epidemic. H5N1 has killed almost 200 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003. World Health Organization experts say a bird flu pandemic among humans would k...Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air
...edicated to sex and drugs. Last year the network won praise for another hair-raising show, "Over My Dead Body," documenting the lives and deaths of terminally ill young people. The Dutch Minister of Health Ab Klink and minster in charge of media Ronald Plasterk have both condemned Friday's donor circ...Mother Hangs Herself and Three Children in Texas
...y evening, he said. The sheriff said Estrada had won a temporary restraining order in August against Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, who was believed to be the father of the infant and some of the other children, after an attack on Estrada. The sheriff said the couple had stopped living together in February...Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows
...e UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. The study won a student prize award when it was presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research last summer....New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths
...der of her two infant sons. She was imprisoned but won her appeal in 2003. She died in March this year. The consequences of the case, says Jonathan Gornall, have been devastating for her family and far reaching for the medical and other professions involved. Protocols introduced as a direct result of ...Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker
...ensation of 130, 000 US dollars. Ryszard Kolbuc won a lawsuit challenging his insurer Ace Ina Insurer ,when they refused to pay him accident coverage after he got paralyzed, during work. The incident that led to his incapacitation was an insect bite by a mosquito carrying the West Nile virus. The a...Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence
...er exemplary service during the Crimean war, which won her a place of pride in the annals of nursing history. One cannot be in this profession for a lark. In the absence of the drive to serve society, nurses cannot fulfill their obligations to the best of their abilities. It is perhaps for this reaso...Bobby Robson Diagnosed With Cancer for Fifth Time
...est Bromwich Albion during a successful career. He won 20 England caps and played in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups. He made his name as a manager with Ipswich in the 1970s, winning the FA Cup in 1978 and the UEFA Cup in 1981 during a 13-year spell with the club from 1969. He guided England to the 1990 W...Portable Splint When Injured Far Away from Medical Help
...njuries occur every year. The splint, which has won an international design award, applies rigidity and heat quickly to the limb via a special gel created by a chemically reactive metal strip and saturated sodium acetate solution. Paul Chamberlain, professor of design at Sheffield Hallam University...Anti-osteoporosis Drugs Could Result in Irregular Heart Rhythm, New Study
...osteoporosis focuses on Reclast. Novartis recently won approval to sell Reclast, known generically as zoledronic acid, for Paget's disease, another bone condition. The company hopes to get an OK later this year to sell it for osteoporosis use. The new study, funded by Novartis, shows that Reclast works...Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past
...Awards. Harris writes the year when the band had won the Album of the Year, Buckingham looked like a character from a B movie moving towards the opposite side of the stage. Looking like a character from a B-movie who'd been shot . . . his superhuman effort was leading him to the opposite side of the ...Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research
Indian-born Australian Kuldip Sidhu has won the "2007 Top Invention Prize" for his work on stem cell research that, he says, is of "great relevance for India". The prize is awarded by BioMed North Limited, a not-for-profit agency for the management and commercialisation of intellectual prope...Underwood, Eubanks Voted 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' by PETA
... Carrie Underwood and guitarist Kevin Eubanks have won the 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' title at PETA's ...ear-old Underwood is not new to the title, for she won the tag in 2005 as well. However, the award is new to the for NBC's 'Tonight Show' band leader Eub...Brazil Government New Health Offer
...,000 drug stores across Brazil. This action has won Jose Gomes Temporao fans among social activists, pro-abortion groups and Brazil's poor. The outspoken Temporao has emerged as the most controversial member of President Luiz Inacio Lula's government since he took office in March -- even taking on Po...Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back
...tween five and 11. The children appeared to have won a victory last week when the Christian school in southern Kerala state that threw them out six months ago allowed them to return to class -- but it was short-lived. "Among the 65 students on our rolls, only three children came to school on June 21 ......iting down my recipes," she said. In 1999, Malhi won a cooking show competition on the BBC, and her first book was finally published after 50 rejections. She followed it up with "India with Passion" two years later. The upcoming "Easy India" will come with a music compact disc to "encourage people to...