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Stent shows promise in keeping arteries open

A new approach to keeping heart arteries flowing smoothly after angioplasty shows surprising success in early testing. Doctors released the longest follow-up with the new technique - the drug-coated stent. //In testing on 50 patients over 3 years, they found it to be 100 percent effective. More than 2 million Americans undergo angioplasty annually, and the new approach is likely to b...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is characterized by breathing difficulty due to partial blockage of the bronchial tubes. Asthma is a chronic lung disease caused by inflammation of the lower airways resulting in episodes of airflow obstruction, which has been found to be the fourth most common// cause of death and affects nearly 16...

Scientists open the book of life

A scientific achievement once thought impossible has been achieved. The human genetic instruction is complete to an accuracy of 99.99 percent. However it is now considered the foundation for a new era of medical advances. With the entire sequence in hand experts predicted it would lead to new drugs, better forecasts of people's health and new ways of treating or preventing many of the mos...

First global SARS meet opens

The first major conference on the deadly SARS epidemic has opened in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur today. More than 1,000 scientists and clinicians gathered to examine how hard-hit regions responded to the outbreak, review scientific findings and talk about control strategies for a disease that has so far killed 799 people and infected 8,460. The meeting in Kuala Lumpur will also...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

Each year about 400,000 Americans undergo balloon angioplasty to clear blocked arteries. In many cases, the arteries become blocked again.// Now, a cancer drug may change the outcome of the procedure. John Bailey can relax today, knowing he's doing everything he can to avoid a second open-heart surgery. Eight years ago, he had a quintuple bypass operation. . But earlier this y...

Stent Effective In Keeping Arteries Open

A new type of stent that releases medication appears safe and effective for preventing arteries from reclosing in coronary heart disease patients, // a process known as restenosis. The experimental stent, a mesh tube, releases the immunosuppressant drug everolimus. The drug acts by inhibiting cell reproduction and reducing cell growth in vessel walls. Unlike other similar drug-eluting ste...

Laproscopic Surgery As Effective As Open Surgery

Doctors say minimally invasive surgery for colon cancer is as effective as open surgery. Since 1990, minimally invasive surgery, also called // laparoscopically assisted surgery, has been an option. With minimally invasive surgery, the procedure is performed through three half-inch incisions and one two-inch incision compared to the open surgery where doctors do a six- to eight-inch inci...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer effecting men. Benefits of Lycophene- an anti-oxidant found in tomato, Guava, apricots, watermelon, papaya and pink grapefruit( most lycopene in processed //tomato products including paste, sauces and juice) have been known for sometime in preventing the aging process and improve skin health in both women and men. It is now being looked at for prev...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer effecting men. Benefits of Lycophene- an anti-oxidant found in tomato, Guava, apricots, watermelon, papaya and pink grapefruit( most lycopene in processed tomato products including paste, sauces and juice) //have been known for sometime in preventing the aging process and improve skin health in both women and men. It is now being looked at for prev...

New Bioinformatics Centre to open in Andhra

President A.P.J Abdul Kalam will Friday inaugurate the world's first state-of-the-art centre of excellence// in medical bioinformatics here. Jointly established and managed by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) and Sun Microsystems Inc, the centre will carry out advanced research in bioinformatics. It will develop genetic data and focus on drug discover...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

Four new genes have been identified which could presumably play a major role in the development// of breast cancer, These new genes were narrowed down after examination of tumor tissue from 53 breast cancer patients. In addition breast cancer cell lines were also studied which confirmed the findings. This new discovery could provide a basis for new treatment for the disease, which is...

A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts

The plight of poor children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) here moved NRIs into donating// $200,000 at a fund-raiser dinner held in the US by a non-profit organization. About 40-50 NRIs have offered to sponsor a child each. Some of them are keen to sponsor a child or two every year According to medical reports, every year, nearly 200,000 children are born in India with CHD. Only...

An Eye Opener for the blind

A US biomedical engineering team has announced the development of an artificial vision system for a totally blind person,with an ability to deliver a visual acuity of about 20/400. The system uses a sub-miniature television camera and an ultrasonic distance sensor, both of which are mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. The sensors connect through a cable to a miniature computer which is w...

Bypassing open heart bypass surgery...

A breakthrough in the treatment of coronary artery disease promises to reduce the need for open heart bypass surgery. Medical research has come up with a drug-coated stent which once inserted after clearing a clogged artery has shown an ability to check the recurrence of blockages, a common problem with the angioplasty procedure.// The results of this new procedure, based on a scientif...

Ranbaxy opens Drug discovery centre in Gurgaon

Ranbaxy, Pharmaceutical Company has opened up its third state of the art drug discovery research centre in Gurgaon which was inaugurated by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on 16th August 2005. The new R&D centre will focus on new drug // discovery research and the development functions of medicinal chemistry, analytical development, pharmacology, molecular technologies, infectious diseases,...

Delhi Hospital Opens Up Avenues For Computer-Aided Knee Replacement

The use of computers is hardly limited to what takes place in the privacy of the home, school, or office. Here is the kind of utility that has the potential to revolutionize the field of surgery as well. A Delhi based hospital has // already started to perform knee replacement surgeries with computer aid. The use of computers for the surgery is said to be associated with a reduction in...

Apollo Hospital to collaborate with US cancer center to open new radiation therapy department

The Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad is to collaborate with The Bakersfield based Comprehensive Blood and Cancer center (CBCC), to start a new radiation therapy department. // In an other six months the CBCC of US is to supply new radiation therapy machines to Ahmedabad Apollo Hospital. Alexander Kuruvilla the CEO of Apollo Hospital said that, "It will be for the first time for us that we wi...

Avenues to opened for medical tourists following relaxation of visa regulations

India has always been looked at by outsiders as the land of mystic magic, serine breath taking beauty, and the harmonious central key to getting in touch with the spiritual side of humanity. However there is more to // this large sub-continent then what meets the eye at first glance that cannot be enjoyed without a real time experience. Tourism has been a thriving business in India fo...

A Blow To Lycopene Supplements Claim To “Health” Fae

The FDA has sent shock waves in the industry pertaining to Lycopene supplements. In a letter sent Nov. 8 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to American Longevity (AL), the FDA// denies AL's petition for qualified health claims for lycopene, tomatoes, and tomatoes-based foods containing lycopene. The proposed health claims say lycopene (tomatoes, tomato-based foods co...

Open Heart Surgery Possible In Himachal Pradesh Now

The state-run Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) hospital will begin performing open-heart surgeries on patients in Himachal Pradesh. 'The IGMC hospital has built a new unit equipped with the // latest equipment including light monitoring system, life support system, auto intensive care light, automatic operation bed and latest x-ray machines for offering this facility,' said Dr Hary...

Health Conclave to be opened by minister

A national conclave will be opened by India’s Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on 29 November 2005.// The conclave will review the progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for health. The conclave is expected to make recommendations and suggestions, and lay down an agenda for achieving the goals, according to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) sourc...

State Of The Art Healthcare Facility Opened In 'New Dubai' by Welcare

A unique world class healthcare facility, supported by Welcare World Health Systems, has been launced in the New Dubai region. // A full service ambulatory health care service comprising of outpatient, emergency, day care surgery and diagnostic // services had been recently inagurated in Knowledge Village. The new facility, Welcare Ambulatory Care Center is open from 8 am to 11 pm a...

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...

OpenMED Nominated For Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award

OpenMED, an open access Internet archive for research works on medical and allied sciences that is hosted by an Indian government body, has been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Stockholm Challenge 2006 award. // Backed by the National Informatics Centre, OpenMED allows authors and researchers to self-archive their scientific and technical documents. The Stockholm Challenge...

India On The Road To Become 'Open Defecation Free'

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the Rural Development Minister today in New Delhi Announced that the country was set to achieve open defecation free status under the governments // Total Sanitation Programme ( TSC) by 2012. Open defecation is a problem that is not faced only in rural India but also in urban India. The lack of enough public bathrooms, a clean sanitation environment, and basic...

UN research symposium To Focus on Open source and Open Medicine

A research symposium titled ‘Challenging Intellectual Property’ will be analyzed and explored at the UN Headquarters in New York.// The Symposium will look into the aspects of Free/Open Source Software and other associated epitomes of knowledge production in economic development. It will also gauge the efficacy of available global financing mechanisms, already on the table, desirous o...

Doctors At The TMCH Performs Their First Open-heart Surgery

The three-hour open-heart surgery was performed on a 17 yr old boy successfully at the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital// (TMCH). An eight-member team led by cardio thoracic surgeon N Vasudevan performed the surgery on the boy who was suffering from an arterial septal, congenital defect on the 4th of August. Dr S Balakrishnan the dean of TMCH said that the patient, S.Ve...

IIT Delhi To Display Its Technological Innovations In 'Open House'

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will showcase over 200 innovations ranging from an easy Braille reading device to a leaves collector in its annual //technological festival "Open House I2Tech" Saturday. "IIT Delhi is just not an engineering college providing degrees to students. It's a centre of research and subsequent technological innovations as well," said Kushal Sen, th...

Imran Khan Plans To Open Second Cancer Hospital In Karachi

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan plans to open a second cancer hospital, this time in the southern port city of Karachi.// The new facility will come up in Karachi by January next year, the Daily Times reported. Khan, who heads the Tehreek-e-Insaf political party, had set up the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) in Lahore in 1994....

Madhya Pradesh Govt Plans To Open New Medical College

The Madhya Pradesh government has increased its health budget by over 30 percent for the current fiscal to upgrade hospitals and open a new medical college//. "In a bid to provide better medical facilities, the government has increased the medical education department budget to about Rs.1.52 billion. This is 30.97 percent more than the previous year's Rs.1.16 billion," an official said...

Café Coffee Day Plans To Open 500 Outlets By 200

Café Coffee Day, India’s premier retail chain of coffee cafes, on opening its 300th outlet in Mumbai on Wednesday said that it has planned to reach the target of 500 by the year 2007. // "It has been a great journey and we are very happy to have played a large role in firmly establishing the coffee café culture in our country," said Naresh Malhotra, director of the Amalgamated Bean C...

Medical Centre Opened In Tsunami-Hit Village

Medical centre inaugurated in tsunami-hit village Nagapattinam,May 25 (pti) As part of Tsunami relief efforts // , a medical and community centre was inaugurated at Thennampattinam, a tsunami-hit village in Sirkali Taluk in Nagapattinam district. Prof Dr K Wucherer,member, corporate executive committee of Siemens, AG declared open the centre constructed by the German business community...

Alternative to Open Heart Surgery

Heart disease is one of the biggest killers in UK. Statistics show that about one in five deaths in men and one in six deaths in women are caused by heart disease//. Hence scientists have engineered a mechanical heart pump to help patients suffering from heart disease. The pump is only 4mm wide and 10cm long and is mounted on a stent and fed on a deflated balloon through an incision in th...

Tiny Easy Fitting Pump May Be The Answer For Major Open Heart Surgery

Experts say that they have developed a tiny device that could relieve the need for open-heart surgery for thousands of patients//. Scientists at Brunel University’s Institute have developed the new pump, measuring 4mm wide and 10cm long, for Bioengineering and doctors at London's. They claim that the dual-purpose pump would be fed into an artery in the groin area and pushed up inside...

Government to Open More Pharma Institutes Across India

Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers and Steel Ramvilas Paswan announced that central government has plans of opening more pharmaceutical institutes across India//, in order to promote and encourage studies and research in pharmaceutical sciences. Paswan told reporters on Friday that his ministry would set up four new institutes on the lines of the National Institute of Pharmace...

Apollo to Open Super-specialty Hospital in Oman by Year-end

India's Apollo group of hospitals is all set to open its 100-bed super-specialty hospital in Oman by the end of this year//. A report in the Times of Oman newspaper quoted Apollo Medical Centre (AMC) managing director V.T. Saileswaran as saying that the hospital would become the first of its kind in the private sector in Oman. The centre is expected to fill the gap between...

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in Bollywood

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in B'wood Sydney, Sabrina Houssami, the beauty queen with roots in India// who will represent Australia in the Miss World contest, says she is open to acting in Bollywood films. The first person of non-Australian parentage to win the Miss Australia title last month, 19-year-old Sabrina was born to an Indian mother and a Lebanese fat...

Opening of Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit Uncertain

Greater Southern Health acting chief has expressed doubts as to whether the $46 million budget increase could help in funding the opening //of a mental health rehabilitation unit in the Riverina. According to Sunflower House officials the $240,000 recurrent funding needed for the Wagga clubhouse itself has been stalled by the State Government. Irate at having been refused funds by the H...

Jharkhand Government to Open More Medical Institutes: CM

Jharkhand will open more medical institutes and increase the number of seats in existing facilities to fill the lacuna of doctors in the state as well as accommodate// the central government's proposed quota policy, says Chief Minister Arjun Munda. "We will increase the number of seats in medical institutions and open more institutes in the state," said Munda, pointing out that the sta...

First Cord Blood Bank in North India to be Opened in Gurgaon

Providing a rich source of live-saving stem cells, seven banks of umbilical cord blood are coming up across India, and the first of the series will open in Gurgaon this// month. Cryobanks India, a joint venture between Cryobanks International, a US body, and R.J. Corporation headed by Ravi Jaipuria, will invest Rs.1 billion to build the seven repositories in metro cities....