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Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

An international group of reproductive scientists plan to launch a human cloning clinic, which will provide cloning services to infertile couples within 18 months, according to a US infertility specialist, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos. Dr. Zavos, a biologist at the Univeristy of Kentucky, is not medically qualified but holds a doctorate in reproductive physiology and is an owner and director of...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

Until now, your age and gender were among the best indicators of how you might use prescription drugs. With today's release of the first comprehensive state-by-state study of prescription drug use, where you live also can say a lot about which and how many medications you use. // According to the study, the percentage of adult beneficiaries obtaining at least one prescription in 2000 r...

GlaxoSmithKline to Supply United States with 8 Million flu vaccine, Fluarix

GlaxoSmithKline will supply 8 million doses of its flu vaccine, Fluarix. This dosage is twice the amount GSK shipped to US last year. This amount of 8 million doses only represents about 10% of the demand from the US, due to increased need for vaccines against flu.// The immense need for vaccination increased due to large vaccination awareness programs organized in the US during recent years, due...

Condom Vending Machines To Be Installed Across Indian States

The World Health Organization survey reveals that currently more than 5.13 million patients are suffering from AIDS in India, with more and more number of cases being reported each year. Anti-retroviral treatments //have already been initiated in 36 hospitals across the country. The priority of the Indian Government is to save millions of youth from falling prey to the disease. Inorde...

Inhospitable Response Curtail Growth Of Specialty Hospitals: United States

According to Bruce Wilson, a Milwaukee Cardiologist, and Chief of the Specialty Hospital in the United States, the Health Care System is in dire need of a shot in the arm.//Specialty Hospitals thought of as an answer to the ills of prevailing healthcare systems, was nipped in the bud, owing to vested interests and inadequate support. Wilson, in an opinion write-up in The Wall Street Journal, has...

Bird flu in Nigeria spreads its wings to southern states

Information Minister Frank Nweke has said in a statement that a pathogenic form of bird flu has spread to three new states//, and one among them is Nigeria’s southern most state. Idemili, the southern state of Anambra, Oturpo in the central state of Benue and Port Harcourt in Rivers state have been confirmed to have the bird-flu virus. According to Frank, "The culling of infected bi...

States Urged By NHRC To Rehabilitate Cured Mental Patients

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged all the state governments to rehabilitate the cured mental patients who were left// by their family members. Chaman Lal, an NHRC official, had visited the Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Science (RINPAS) and found that 97 patients who were cured were still languishing in the institute. "Lal has assured us h...

Controversial Theory Says DNA Can Be Pushed To "Dark States"

Researchers at Oregon State University are pumping for a controversial theory, which says that supposedly stable DNA bases can be forced// into "dark states" where they can be easily dismantled by ultraviolet radiation. This new idea appears to contravene some of the most accepted theories in biochemistry. The theory, not long ago dismissed as impossible by much of the science community...

Blend Of Sleep And Wake States To Explain Near Death Sensation

The phenomenon of near-death experience could be due to the tendency of the brain to blur the line between wakefulness and sleep, suggests a new study. // Until now, why some people see bright light, have extraordinary sensations or feel detached from their body when they are in death bed has remained a mystery. The present research highlights that it might have a physiological base, o...

Health Insurance Plans Varies among States

Health insurance plans show wide variations among different states with urban states getting more for their premium dollar. // -Employees in the smallest firms (1-9 workers) pay an average 18% more in health insurance premiums than those in the largest firms (1,000+ workers), when actuarial value--the percentage of total medical expenses paid by a health plan--is taken into account, a n...

Study States Smokers With Wrinkled Faces More Easily Prone To COPD

A new study suggests that middle-aged smokers with heavily wrinkled faces have a five times higher risk of lung disease than their un-wrinkled peers//. The study explains that having wrinkles was associated with a group of conditions known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A team of researchers from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital on 149 people conducted the study,...

Women Complains of Failed Tubectomy from Two Different States

Two families in two different parts of the country have complained of failed tubectomy birth-control surgeries and for being saddled with unplanned children//. A Himachal Pradesh couple has demanded compensation for two failed tubectomy birth-control surgeries while a woman in Madhya Pradesh has complained that she has become pregnant despite the operation. The angry couple...

Chinese Poultry Smuggled into United States

Frozen Chinese poultry that was smuggled into the United States was found in a Detroit-area warehouse through a series of raids over the past month. Michigan health// officials have been trying to trace its source. According to official reports there is no sign that the frozen poultry, some even packed with entrails intact, had been contaminated with the deadly avian influenza virus....

Southern States Health Ministers To Discuss Ways To Stop Chikungunya

Health Ministers of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are to meet in Bangalore next month to discuss ways to stop the rapid spread of Chikungunya.// The disease has ravaged the four states and has infected lakhs of people in the biggest occurrence after it came to India through Kolkata in 1954-55. Andhra Pradesh Health Minister K. Rosaiah said Madhya Pradesh is als...

Four States in India Affected by Chikungunya: Government

The government Wednesday admitted that four Indian states have been badly hit by Chikungunya, a devastating viral illness that resembles dengue fever, but it claimed// there have been no causalities so far. The states affected with Chikungunya fever during the current year are Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Kerala, Health and Family Wel...

Chikungunya Affects Eight States

Chikungunya, a rare form of viral fever, has taken the form of an epidemic in the country as thousands of people are reportedly infected with its virus in eight states, an official said today. // 'The spread is of unprecedented magnitude. There is no case of Chikungunya reported from the northern states like Delhi, Haryana, Punjab etc. However, except for Kerala in the southern India,...

Spread of New Viral Fever Reported in Five States

High incidence of a rare form of viral fever spread by mosquitoes has been reported in five states, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said Friday.// "High incidence of fever cases with arthralgia were reported from 18 districts of Andhra Pradesh, 27 district of Karnataka, 31 districts each of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and four districts of Madhya Pradesh...

Central Government to Caution all States About Soft Drinks

The central government will send an advisory to all state governments cautioning them about the ill effects of aerated soft drinks //after an independent report found heavy pesticide contents in them. "We are sending an advisory to all state governments to educate the public about the ill-effects of the junk food and aerated soft drinks," Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told reporte...

46.6 Million People In The United States Have No Health Insurance

A report released by U.S. Census Bureau shows that California is the fifth worst in the nation in terms of the percentage of residents without health insurance.// Texas was the worst with an uninsured rate of 24.6 percent, while 18.8 percent of California’s population was uninsured. Minnesota had the best record with only 8.7 percent of the population being uninsured. N...

Rise in Obesity Rates in 31 States

With the increase in adult obesity rates in 31 states during the past year, an estimated two-thirds of Americans have been left vulnerable to fatal diseases such as// diabetes, stroke and cancer. All this has happened in spite of federal and state government efforts to curb the overweight epidemic, according to a new report from the Trust for America's Health. The report, ti...

Study States That CNS Could Regulate Arthritis

A new research suggests that the CNS can profoundly influence immune responses, and control the role of stress in inflammatory diseases. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine// have shown in a model of rheumatoid arthritis, that the central nervous system (CNS) could perceive and vary the inflammation in the joints. The researchers have sug...

Finding the Source of Anthrax Attack in United States (2001)

Investigators were quite sure that the pre-meditated anthrax attacks in the United States in 2001 had the imprint of superior military quality anthrax; further investigations revealed that the anthrax used//, belonged to the common variety, though lethal all the same. The FBI has since increased their probe into the source of anthrax that reportedly killed five people in the US in Oct 2001, weeks...

States Urged to Agree on Cross-border Health Authority

The Federal Health Minister has said that he would prefer not step in to fast-track a merger between Albury-Wodonga's health services//. This idea was proposed during a meeting with Tony Abbott and Goulburn Murray politicians yesterday. A decade of talks between the New South Wales and Victorian governments has still not revealed a common plan towards working of the health servi...

Southern states join hands to protect biodiversity

Forests ministers of the four southern states have decided to form a cell for better cooperation to protect and preserve the biodiversity //of their rich forests. "We have decided to form protocols for joint action raids and protection camps among the southern states," Karnataka Forest Minister C. Chennigapa told reporters here Saturday after the conclusion of a two-day conference of...

High Incidence of AIDS in Six States

The National AIDS Control Organisation with support from National Institute of Health and Family Welfare and National Institute of Medical Statistics (ICMR), conducts// Sentinel Surveillance every year among high-risk populations, STI patients and Antenatal mothers. Based on the results of HIV prevalence in different population groups, six states have been declared as high prevalence states where...

Third Successful Hand Transplant Accomplished at United States

A Michigan man is the third lucky man to have his hand transplanted successfully at US by a team of Louisville doctors. // The medical team consisted of doctors from Jewish hospital, the University of Louisville, St. Mary’s HealthCare, and Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center who conducted a long surgery from 3.10 pm on Wednesday to 6.11 am on Thursday. The recip...

Name the Healthiest State in The United States

No marks for guessing, Minnesota wins hands down for the fourth year in succession, as the Numero Uno healthiest U.S. State, and Louisiana was ranked ‘lousiest’ in health//, revealed a report by the United Health Foundation. Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii and Connecticut were placed second, third and fourth healthiest respectively. Louisiana was ‘unhealthiest’ at rank 50. The unhealth...

Government Plans to Set Up Mobile Dispensaries in States

Mobile dispensaries will do the rounds of rural areas as part of a government plan to reach healthcare to the needy and marginalized populations. // The government has released initial funds to the tune of Rs. 1.5 billion to states to set up mobile medical units in rural areas. According to a health ministry document, these funds have been given under the National Rural He...

Poverty Fuels HIV In Poor Indian States

The residents of the poor states of India migrate to the industrialized regions in India's west and south for better prospects and end up with AIDS.// Bihari migrants are estimated to range from two million to ten million. Biharis usually work as taxi drivers, mechanics, security guards or domestic servants in India's big cities. "I just did not think about what I was doing," Srivasta...

Mosquito-borne Dengue Disease on the Rise in Five Malaysian States

Kuala Lumpur: Five Malaysian states have registered a leap in the number of dengue fever cases in the first week of the year, with authorities fearing that the mosquito-borne// disease could further spread due to the rainy season, reports said Wednesday. The north-eastern state of Kelantan registered the highest jump, from 18 cases in the last week of December to 32 cases in the firs...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

Officials from the EU's 27 member states decided that milk and meat from cloned animals //and their offspring should be considered in the same way as any other novel food. The urgent talks took place at the European Commission's Novel Foods Working Group, after Europe was last week hauled into the cloned food debate because of news that the offspring of a cloned cow had been born on...

WHO States, “One Billion People Are Affected By Neurological Disorders

Neurological ailments varying from migraines to Alzheimer's disease affect almost one billion people across the world. This was reported// by WHO in ‘Neurological disorders: Public health challenges’. The report states that 24 million people are affected by disease like Alzheimer's and other dementias and 50 million are hit by epilepsy which requires far-reaching care. These issues are...

United States Department of Defense Selects Ichor Medical Systems to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ichor Medical Systems, whose advanced electroporation system is being used worldwide to increase the effectiveness// of DNA drug and vaccine delivery, has been awarded a two-year contract valued at over $900,000 by the United States Department of Defense to assist the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryl...

India Sounds Bird Flu Alert in Border States

India continues to be free from the dreaded avian influenza but alert has been sounded in the states bordering// Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the health ministry said Friday. "The country continues to be free from the avian influenza virus as on date. As a precautionary measure, states bordering Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been put on alert," said a health ministry comm...

Autistic Children can Interpret Mental States by Facial Expressions: Research

Autistic children have long been thought to have difficulty interpreting people’s mental states based on facial expressions, especially expressions// around the eyes. Some researchers believe that this lack of ability could be central to the social problems experienced by these children. Now a new study finds that autistic children are able to interpret mental states when looking at animated faci...

Northeast States Sound Bird Flu Alert

Regional governments in India's northeastern region have sounded an alert by restricting the entry// of poultry from Bangladesh and Myanmar after the two countries reported an outbreak of bird flu, officials said Monday. Tripura, Assam, Mizoram, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh that share common borders with either Bangladesh or Myanmar have asked customs officials to ban entry of liv...

All U.S. States To Begin Names-Based Reporting of HIV Cases by End of 2007

All U.S. states and Washington, D.C., by the end of 2007 will begin recording HIV cases using names-based reporting systems rather than code-based // reporting systems, the AP/Springfield State Journal Register reports. Beginning this fiscal year, the funding formulas used by HHS to calculate Ryan White Program grants include only HIV data from states that use names-based reporting sy...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

New York and six other Northeastern states in the US are stepping up their efforts to force the federal government to enact tougher standards of mercury emissions.// Throughout the Northeast, mercury contamination has become a growing health concern. Mercury is a metal that occurs naturally. It is released in a gaseous form when coal is burned in electrical generating plant...

Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report

Stroke prevalence varies widely from state to state, with some states and U.S. territories having more than double the stroke prevalence of others , according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, "Prevalence of Stroke - United States, 2005," published in CDCs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, provides the first data on the percentage of strok...

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

Seniors who do not have children to help care for them are less likely to have to go into a nursing home if they live in a state that spends more on home- and community- based services, researchers have found. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the finding in the May 11 issue of the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. "Traditionally, lon...