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Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

To avoid quackery in the field of stem cell therapy, and propagate the stem cell research on right track, the Government has decided to work on improving the protocols involved in this therapy. // The system would be developed under the leadership of director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), according to Union health secretary P K Hota. The...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

A new study of 311 sets of same-sex twins in which only one twin had smoked marijuana before age 17 has bolstered the fiercely debated "gateway theory" that pot can lead to harder drugs. The study included 136 sets of identical twins who shared the same genetic makeup and all the participants were 30 years of age, on an average, when they were asked about their teenage drug use. The resea...

Bill Gates to Fund ￡28m for Malaria researc

Bill Gates is to fund ￡28m for research in United Kingdom as part of ￡145m package for research programs worldwide for the eradication of Malaria worldwide. Bill Gates along with his Melinda Gates Foundation is going to sponsor three // international projects for malaria eradication over the next five years. Mr. Gates expressed that more research funding is contributed to research of AIDS...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

AUSTIN, Texas - Oral care product leader Colgate-Palmolive Company has entered into an alliance with Introgen Therapeutics to market oral health care formulations specifically designed to fight against pre-cancerous //conditions in the oral cavity as well as oral cancer. Towards this end Colgate purchased $20 million of Introgen shares with exclusive rights over the products that are pr...

Bill Gates Takes Personal Interest in AIDS Program

Bill Gates, Chief of Microsoft, will visit India on 6 December 2005, along with his wife Melinda. Chennai and Bangalore will be among the cities he will visit as he reviews the progress of his $200 million HIV/AIDS initiative in India//. India figures very high on the priority list of Microsoft. Gates' fourth visit in two years will see him sharing his IT vision as he interacts with key...

Islamic Medical Ethics opposes Irreversible contraceptive and surrogate motherhood.

During a workshop on Islamic Medical Ethics new rules and flexibility to certain existing rules were done. The workshop was attended by national and international physicians who wanted the Islamic Medical Ethics little comfortable and flexible. //Dr. Malika Haque, Clinical Professor Pediatrics, Ohio State University and Dr. Mohammad Amin, Shifa College of Medicine had recommended several...

Hospital kitchen food investigated for underfed patients

In a major allegation made by family of patients at Swansea psychiatric hospital, it is said that patients are not eating food. This is being linked with the closure of kitchens at Cefn Coed Hospital//. The claims made say that some elderly patients have lost weight following the closure of the kitchens at Cefn Coed Hospital. The closure of the kitchens occurred due to shi...

Dr.Tadataka Yamada Designated to open Gates for Global Health Program

The Global Health Program, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates, scheduled to commence in June, has acquired a new Executive Director, according to the Gates foundation Release. Dr Tadataka Yamada, // Chair of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline, will now lead the program. Yamada’s key portfolio will focus on driving the foundation’s Vaccination Initiatives while also working on enh...

Mice model becomes surrogate for human prostate

Another importance of stem cells comes to the fore front as claimed by Australian scientists who have grown a human prostate in mice. This is the first time in the world that such a feat has been accomplished. // The feat is to grow a human prostate gland in mice using embryonic stem cells. This would be helpful in treatment for prostate cancer and other diseases....

New Multi-functional Sensing Tool To Investigate Cystic Fibrosis

A research team from Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a new multi-functional sensing system to investigate adenosine triposphate (ATP) release and its role in cystic fibrosis. // This patented technology adds recessed micro- and nano-electrodes to the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM), creating a single tool that can simultaneously monitor topography along with ele...

iGATE Completes Phase I Testing Of Meningitis Vaccine

Contract research firm iGATE Clinical Research International today completed the Phase I clinical trial of a new meningococcal-A conjugate vaccine. // The project, which is being done in partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), an American NGO based in Seattle aimed at eliminating epidemic meningitis in sub-Sa...

Clinton, Gates Highlight Treatment, Discrimination of AIDS

Former US president Bill Clinton and Microsoft boss Bill Gates said inadequate access to treatment and continued discrimination were among the biggest problems// in combating the AIDS epidemic, in addresses to the largest ever AIDS conference under way in Toronto. "We've got to continue to fight the stigma and stop people from being scared to know their status," Clinton told the confer...

Gates Foundation to donate USD 104 million to TB Alliance

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate USD 104 million to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) to advance a pipeline of new TB drugs// over the next five years to find a faster and more effective cure for the disease. Since its formation in 2000, the non-profit TB Alliance has built the largest pipeline in history of potential new drugs for the treatment...

Division Among Delegates To Dilute UN's AIDS Plans: Activists

As diplomats lock horns over the declaration to be issued after today's UN meet on AIDS, activists and victims fear the outcome will fail to effectively contain the epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives so far.// Hours before the declaration is to be issued, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asked diplomats not to negotiate away gains made in an earlier declaration in 2001. <b...

Police Team Permitted to Interrogate Rahul Mahajan

Hospital authorities treating Rahul Mahajan, the son of late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, for a suspected case of drug overdose Monday gave the go-ahead to Delhi Police to interrogate him//. 'We have declared Rahul as fit for interrogation and he will soon be out of the intensive care unit,' said a senior doctor of the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. 'A...

S.Africa Sets Up Task Team To Investigate Anthrax Outbreak In KNP

South African health authorities have set up a task team to investigate the outbreak of anthrax that has left 15 animals dead in the famous Kruger National Park (KNP) in the past few weeks //. The KNP spokesman Raymond Travers said on Monday that the team would decide on the course of action based on the evidence that they collect. The management of the park, KNP, is South Africa bigg...

MMR- Autism- Bowel Problems Connection To Be Investigated

Reports of suspected connection between MMR(measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and bowel disorders and autism has created concern over the safety of the vaccine, despite the assurances extended by government experts and all the Royal Colleges //. An inquiry is to be initiated by the Department of Health, and tests are to be carried out on children whose families claim we...

Bill Gates Clarifies that his Decision to Focus on Charity was Personal

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said that his decision to devote more time to philanthropy was a...

Researchers Investigate Protein that Protects Tumors

A protein that allows breast cancer cells to evade the body’s natural immune responses could be a target of future cancer therapies//, according to a study by Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists published today. The study, published in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Pathology, is the first to identify how EphB4 – a protein that sits on the surface of cells – function...

A boon to the paralyzed -Brain Gate Neural Interface System

It will now be possible for a patient with spinal cord injury to produce brain signals that relay the intention of moving the paralyzed limbs// , as signals to an implanted sensor, which is then output as electronic impulses. These impulses enable the user to operate mechanical devices with the help of a computer cursor. A report appearing in the July 13 issue of Nature includes the...

Gates Foundation Announces $287 Million In Grants Towards AIDS Vaccine

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had announced $287 million in grants on Wednesday towards the creation of an international network of 16 labs that would work// in on new approaches for creating a vaccine against AIDS. It was explained by the foundation that they wish the program would transform the elusive AIDS vaccine effort by rewarding individual labs that come up with innovati...

Gates Foundation Adopts Fight against Encephalitis

The fight against Japanese encephalitis, a bird-borne Asian virus that has left a deadly trail of death or more commonly survivors with brain damage has been adopted by the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. // Today the virus is expanding its geographic reach and threatens several billion people on the planet. Dr. Julie Jacobson, director of the Japanese encephalitis program at Seatt...

A Synthetic Molecule Instigates Cancer Cells To Self-Harm

Scientists have devised a method to outwit cancer cells and instigate them to self-harm, ultimately causing death of cancer cells. This novel discovery could unlock reliable// treatments for cancer. This discovery works on the known principle that involves the activation of the body’s many defenses, to check the abnormal growth of cells; the way to achieve this is to get the faulty...

$68 million aid pours in from Gates Foundation to fight tropical diseases

Seattle: The initiatives to combat tropical diseases that ails many millions of people in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America//, was given a renewed thrust by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which announced four grants totaling to more than $68.2 million. This fund will assist in controlling three diseases - hookworm, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis – which are spread by pa...

European Regulators Investigate Common Painkiller Drugs

European regulators are investigating common painkiller drugs after researchers warned that some of them might increase the risk of heart attack//. The new data, culled from 140,000 patients, suggested that some of the drugs doubled heart attack risk. The European Medicines Agency which is investigating drugs such as diclofenac, etodolac, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofe...

Gates Foundation Grants $23mn for AIDS programme in India

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Tuesday announced an investment of $23 million over the next three years to enhance the HIV-AIDS prevention and response programmes of// the Indian government. Health and Family Welfare Secretary Prasanna Hota and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation president Tadataka Yamada signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect here....

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

Anyone who has experienced jet lag will understand the importance of a smooth-running circadian clock. Crossing time zones decouples our biological rhythms// from the natural cycle of light and dark we’re used to. We perceive light cues through retinal photoreceptors that relay signals to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the brain. "Phase adjustments" in peripheral tissues ensure...

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

Thailand's "Condom King" will receive a one-million-dollar award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday on behalf of the group he founded to promote family planning and AIDS prevention. Mechai Viravaidya, the founder and chairman of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), will be presented with the 2007 Gates Award for Global Health at a health conf...

Bill Gates pours in funds for diarrhea treatment reseach

A San Francisco nonprofit pharmaceutical company was given $46 million to develop its research on innovative treatments to deal with diseases // which cause diarrhea which is incidently the main reason for the loss of lives of almost two million chiidren around the world. The pharmaceutical company One World Health based in San Fransisco gets the grant for developing new drugs that w...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

Chlamydia trachomatis, a bacterium, which is one of the leading cause for sexually transmitted diseases and the second leading cause for blindness globally, is said to be// evolving at a rate faster than scientists would have imagined. The scientists from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) were the first to conclude this with the help of a new study. The Scientist...

Reversal of Roles – Humans to Infect Mosquitoes to Mitigate Malari

A novel strategy to combat malaria is abuzz, and the main action plan of this strategy will use humans to infect mosquitoes. // The researchers from the National Institutes of Health have come out with a vaccine that when tested on mice, instigated them to produce antibodies against the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum which causes malaria. The antibodies created in the body of the mice...

Researchers Investigate Molecular Basis of Memory

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's (EMBL) Mouse Biology Unit in Monterotondo, Italy, and the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla,// Spain, now for the first time investigate the molecular basis of memory in living mice. The study, which appears in the current issue of Learning and Memory, identified a molecule that is crucially involved in learning and single...

Gates Foundation Pledges $3 Million to Fight Malaria in Africa

A United Nations-backed campaign to fight malaria in Africa has received its first-ever challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a pledge// to match dollar for dollar up to $3 million in individual contributions to the programme to fight a disease that kills more than 1 million people every year, mostly children under five. The ‘Nothing But Nets’ campaign, a partnersh...

Potential for Adult Stem Cells to Repair Hearts Damaged Investigated

Rush University Medical Center is one of the first medical centers in the country, and currently the only site in Illinois, participating in a novel clinical trial to// determine if a subject’s own stem cells can treat a form of severe coronary artery disease. The Autologous Cellular Therapy CD34-Chronic Myocardial Ischemia (ACT34-CMI) Trial is the first human, Phase II adult stem cell...

'Gateway' Gene Discovered for Brain Cancer

Researchers have discovered that the same genetic regulator that triggers growth of stem cells during brain development also plays a central role in the development of the lethal brain cancer malignant glioma. //In experiments on mice with such gliomas, they showed that knocking out the function of a particular regulatory protein, Olig2, almost completely eliminated tumor formation. Th...

CDA Investigates Case of Bovine Tuberculosis

The Colorado Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a case of bovine tuberculosis// (TB) out of Douglas County. 'CDA is taking quick action to ensure this disease does not spread,' said Colorado State Veterinarian John Maulsby. 'This is unfortunate but I am confident that our veterinarians and animal health officials will be able to effectively...

Malaria Network Gets 49bn from Bill Gates

The African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) has received a US$4.1 million grant equivalent, to 49.2bn/-, from the Bill & Melinda Gates// Foundation. According to the statement signed by AMANET Communication Officer, Dr Charles Wanga, the four-year grant is aimed at strengthening institutional capacity in health research ethics (HRE) in Africa. It also aims at fostering and pro...

Transplant Doctor Investigated in Organ Donor Case

A Californian doctor by name Dr. Hootan Roozrokh is allegedly involved in an organ donor case. Officials are currently investigating this case//. Ruben Navarro a 25 year old young man died on February 4th at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. His family had given approval for his organs to be harvested after realizing that he will not survive. Navarro was moved from ICU to operating...

Gates Foundation, MMV Plan To Fund Malaria Research Center in UAE

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Medicines for Malaria Venture plan to fund the establishment of a research center //in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The center will focus on developing affordable, effective malaria drugs, Gulf News reports. Gates Foundation and MMV representatives on Wednesday met with officials from the UAE Ministry of Health to discuss the project. The...

Computers Better Decision Makers Than Surrogates

A research published in the P Los (Public Library of Science) suggests that computers could guess better than human beings when it comes to speculating// the wishes of a terminally sick patient. David Wendler, bioethicist for NIH in Baltimore stumbled upon this finding while he was analyzing the decisions of a computer and a loved one on the course of action involving a critically ill p...