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Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

A NOVEL research-cum-manufacturing agreement between Chiron Corp, the US-based vaccine major, and an Indian company for the development of a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners f...

New Four- in- one Vaccine For DTP & Hepatitis To Hit The Indian Market

Shantetra, the first indigenously developed combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and hepatitis-B has been launched to protect children against the four life threatening diseases. // Shantha Biotechnics Limited, a pioneer in health care industry has manufactured and marketed the product keeping in line with the worldwide trend of switching to combination vaccines.<b...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

Dengue has claimed four lives in a week in Kolkata, not even sparing the city's upscale neighbourhoods. West Bengal health Chief Prabhakar Chatterjee has admitted that the fever that swept through some areas of south Kolkata is // dengue or brain fever. There have been reports of 4 casualties and blood tests have revealed the presence of dengue in eight other people. The unofficial dea...

Notice issued against health minister and four others

The Kerala Health Minister was issued notice after a complaint that said he took huge amounts of money in exchange for arranging transfers // and appointments for medical and Para medical staffs at Kannur and Wayanad. Lok Ayukta Justice K Sreedharan and Upa Lok Ayukta N Krishnan Nair issued the notice on Wednesday against K.K. Ramachandran and four others. Kerala Government...

No booster vaccine For every fourth child in Australia

Only 75 per cent of Australian children eligible for free booster vaccine against pneumococcal disease got their shots before the program finished at the end of 2005, government figures show//. These children had received pneumococcal vaccination as a result of the...

TMC 114 and 125 experimental drugs to be tested on four HIV patients

Four HIV patients who have found resistant to most of the HIV drugs in the city of Vancouver in British Columbia would be given the experimental drugs TMC 114 and TMC 125 as a last hope to save their lives. // Though clinical trials with experimental drugs are undertaken under strict protocols this study is tested on a hope to find a cure and save the lives of these four HIV patients....

Four-Drug AIDS Treatment Regimen Deemed Of No Use

The inclusion of a fourth drug to the usual three-drug HIV treatment regimen is not warranted, according to researchers. The fourth drug did not reduce the HIV load// or the drug resistance, the new study said. It is published in the August 16 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. Roy M. Gulick, M.D., M.P.H., of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, presented the...

Investigators Find Poisonous Chemicals In Four More Drugs In China

The authorities yesterday have announced that four more drugs made by a Heilongjiang Province drug maker in the center of a medical scandal are tainted with a poisonous industrial chemical. // It was found that patients receiving treatment in a local hospital in Guangzhou, capital city of south's China Guangdong province May 15, 2006 have shown symptoms of acute renal failure after h...

Ranbaxy's Four HIV/AIDS Drugs In WHO Pre-Qualification List

India's biggest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited today said the World Health Organistion has included four of its additional Anti Retro- Viral (ARV) products in its pre-qualification list. // The products approved by WHO are Efavirenz 600mg tablets, Efavirenz 200mg capsules, Stavudine 30mg capsules, Stavudine 40mg capsules, the company said in a statement. "This is a...

Diagnosis On a Fourth Patient Confirmed To Be E.Coli

It was reported on the 30th May that one adult and two children have been diagnosed with the E.coli 0157 infection//. Authorities of NHS Lanarkshire issued a statement confirming that there have been three linked cases of E.coli 0157 within the village of Law, in South Lanarkshire. All of these cases have a link with J&H Cairns, a butcher in the village. The NHS announced that as the...

ESI to Set Up Four Super Speciality Hospitals

Kolkata: The Employees' State Insurance Corporation would set up four super speciality hospitals in four zones of the country in order to provide specialised medical care to those covered under its scheme//. 'These facilities will be set up at New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and in either Mumbai or Pune,' ESI director general Ramesh Inder Singh said today. He said, however,...

Four Points to Live up to 100

The secret of a long life seems to boil down to four factors: diet, exercise, psycho-spiritual and social.// Indeed, what does it take to live to the ripe age of 100? Scientistshave listed 10 commandments for a long life - and alcohol is one ofthem. They say that if you follow the simple rules, you have a fairchance of joining the growing number of centenarians across the globe....

Four Jaundice Cases Detected In Bathinda

Four cases of jaundice were detected here today even as health officials collected blood samples from 20 people suspected to be suffering from the disease. // Officials said a team of doctors that visited Baldev Nagar found four persons including two children were suffering from jaundice. The deputy commissioner of Ambala and the civil surgeon visited the area as doctors co...

Lack of Proper Emergency Access during the Run Led To the Death of Four Runners

In the Great North Run which was held last year to mark the 25th anniversary led to the death of four competitors. The complaints were that the deaths //were due to the lack of proper medical facilities. The coroner was very confident as this was main reason of their deaths because the victims who died were all physically fit. They died due to over-exertion as they approached the end of t...

Fourth international urogynaecology conference on Jun 16

Chennai, June 10. Evolution of new methods of treatment in Urogynaecology will be the focus area at the fourth International conference and live workshop on Urogynaecology and Reconstructive pelvic surgery, that begins here on June 16. // A live televised demonstration of a pelvic surgery, being conducted at Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (KGH), will be held on the occasion....

Four Deaths Due To Bird Flu Caught From Wild Birds

The German scientists have stated that four people have died after catching bird flu from wild swans//. The scientists, who had only just announced about the deaths, had said that they had occurred earlier this year. They also went on to state that they were the first confirmed cases of avian flu that were being passed on from the wild birds. It was stated that the victims...

Dead Body on Hospital Bed for Four Days

Angered by the indifferent attitude of health bosses who have told staff to leave corpses on wards, a widow whose husband's body was left on a hospital bed for four days//, lashed out at them saying that she was sickened by the Evening Telegraph revelation that cash-strapped bosses are not paying for enough night porters to move bodies to the morgue at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn....

South African Siamese Twins to be Separated in Four Months

The first ever pair of South African Indian Siamese twins are doing well and are expected to be separated in four months//. Danielle and Danika Lowton, born on June 21 at the Arwyp Medical Centre here, are healthy and tolerating their oral feeds. "They are gaining weight and are healthy," a report in the Post newspaper quoted Wian Stander, head of the medical centre, as say...

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...

AIIMS Acquires Four-Armed Robot to Assist in Surgeries

The country's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences' (AIIMS) has acquired a four-armed robot, the first of its kind in Asia, to help in delicate surgeries// at the department of urology, top doctors said Friday. "We acquired the Da Vinci Surgical Robot on July 19 and have so far conducted six prostate surgeries with the help of the machine. The robot is the first of its kind...

A fourfold rise in gestational diabetes

A recent research revealed that the number of women suffering from gestational diabetes has risen four times over a period of 5 years.// Hence, overweight women are being advised to reduce weight before they conceive. Diabetes Australia-NSW has given shocking statistics. According to it, more than 18,500 cases of gestational diabetes were reported last year, whereas, only 4286 cases were...

Four Die Due to Multiple Organ Failure after Blood Transfusion

Gujarat: At least four people have died due to the multiple organ failure and suspected infection after blood transfusion in Rajkot, Gujarat officials said Monday.// The four people, admitted in different private hospitals of Rajkot, 230 km from here, died in the past two days after blood, brought from a blood bank, was transfused to them, the officials said here. The bloo...

Four of Family Died After Consuming Poisonous Mushrooms

Four children of a Himachal Pradesh village died after eating wild poisonous mushrooms while their mother is still recovering//. According to police officials, MangatRam, 12, Begma, 8, Neelma, 5, and Jaywanti, 2, died Friday in Thanhaar village in the Kullu valley, some 240 km from here. All the children fell unconscious and died soon after consuming the cooked mushroom. Th...

Blood Pressure Eased with Four Short Walks a Day

A recent study has shown that taking four short walks a day to lower your blood pressure may be more beneficial than one long walk.// Indiana University researchers have reported in the September issue of the Journal of Hypertension, a study that compared the effects of four 10-minute walks to one 40-minute walk which revealed that blood pressure was reduced in 20 people with prehypert...

Four short walks better in keeping BP under control ...

According to a recent study, frequent short sessions of exercise may be more efficient in keeping blood pressure under control than a single long session one//. This study was conducted by researchers at the Indiana University and was published in the September issue of the Journal of Hypertension. When blood pressure ranges from 120-139 mm Hg over 80-89 mm Hg, it is a condition calle...

Doctors Remove Four-cm Long Pin from Man's Lungs

Doctors operated upon a young man and took out at a four-cm long pin from his lungs at a Coimbatore hospital in Tamil Nadu, which he had swallowed six months ago unknowingly.// Doctors, who operated 20-year-old Najeeb Friday, were surprised that he lived for six months with the pin inside, without any pain. The pin Najeeb had swallowed apparently gone down his throat effor...

Four People with Dengue Symptoms Admitted to Srinagar Hospital

Four people with dengue symptoms have been admitted to a hospital in this summer capital Srinagar.Doctors at the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences Thursday confirmed// that they were in the emergency ward of the institute. "The samples of two of the four patients have tested negative, ruling out fear of the dreaded fever," a senior doctor said. "The reports of the other...

Lung Disease affects every fourth smoker

Danish scientists have found out that the fatal lung disease; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) will affect at least one in four long-term heavy smokers//. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema constitute COPD, which is the major cause of death across the globe. Cough, fatigue, shortness of breath and subsequent difficulty in breathing due to lung damage are the symptoms. The sc...

Dengue Toll Touches four in West Bengal

Dengue has claimed four lives in West Bengal and affected about 500 people, health minister Suryakanta Misra said Thursday//. "There are four deaths so far in West Bengal with about 500 affected," said Misra. City Mayor Bikash Bhattacharya had said earlier that 29 people in Kolkata were affected by dengue with one death reported. Though the mayor said the situat...

Four deaths cause halt of flu vaccination in Israel

A spokeswoman reported that Israeli Health Ministry had suspended flu vaccine administration on Sunday following the deaths of 3 people who were inoculated. According to// the Israeli media, the fourth death was reported later. 'The ministry is investigating whether the deaths are connected to the vaccines,' said Inbal Jacobs, a ministry spokeswoman. According to the Israel Radio, t...

One Fourth of Hospital Patients Admitted for Mental Health or Drug Abuse Disorder

Almost one-fourth of all stays in U.S. community hospitals for patients age 18 and older involved// depressive, bipolar, schizophrenia and other mental health disorders or substance use related disorders in 2004, according to a new report. This study presents the first documentation of the full impact of mental health and substance abuse disorders on U.S. community hospitals. Accord...

More then Four Million New HIV Infections in 2006: UNAIDS

The global AIDS epidemic continues to spiral with 4.3 million new infections //reported in 2006, with sub-Saharan Africa alone accounting for 65 percent of the cases, states a new UNAIDS report. The UNAIDS/WHO 2006 AIDS Epidemic Update released in Geneva Tuesday estimates that globally 39.5 million people are living with HIV. Of these, about 8.6 million are in Asia, including the 960,0...

Every Fourth Pakistani Above 15 is Overweight or Obese: Study

One in four Pakistani adults aged 15 years and above is overweight or obese, says a study on obesity and its link with hypertension and diabetes//. The study has a bearing on South Asia's health trends because of the similarities among the people's food habits and lifestyle in the Indian subcontinent. Data from this study confirms that excess weight and obesity are a majo...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

Young adults (ages 20 to 44) with normal lung function who later develop chronic cough and phlegm// have a fourfold higher risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The results of this 10-year respiratory study appear in the first issue for January 2007 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society....

One in Four Specialist Trainee Doctors 'Very Worried' About Future Job Prospects

One in four specialist trainee doctors in England views their future job prospects as 'poor' or 'very worrying,' as a result of changes in training and healthcare delivery, //reveals a survey* published ahead of print in a special edition of Postgraduate Medical Journal. While the government plans to shift the focus of care, particularly for long term conditions, away from hospitals i...

AIIMS Creates Record by Completing 100 Four-arm Robotic Surgeries

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Friday become the first hospital in Asia to complete 100 surgeries// through the most advanced four-arm robot - Da Vinci S. "We were the first to acquire Da Vinci S robot in July last year and today we completed the 100th operations through the state-of the art machine. It's a record in Asia," said Ashok K. Hemal, a senior...

Four Gay Men Carrying Highly Multiple-drug Resistant Strain of HIV Reported

It’s a discovery that may well be giving HIV health care workers sleepless nights.// There has been an accounting of four gay men having a highly drug resistant form of HIV in King County, Seattle. This form of AIDS progresses much more rapidly than others and is likewise more difficult to treat. Health officials have confirmed this same strain of virus to be present i...

Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists

Researchers in the United States have developed a method that could lead to a single vaccine against all four types of the dengue// virus. The dengue virus causes dengue hemorrhagic fever, shock and encephalitis. The four types of virus are all sufficiently different that individuals vaccinated against one virus type are still vulnerable to infection by the others. There i...

Sunstroke Claims Fourteen More Lives in Delhi

At least 14 people died Monday due sunstroke in the Indian capital taking the toll since Sunday to 28, as the relentless heat wave continued across north India. 'At least three people died in the Deen Dayal Upadhayay (DDU) hospital today. All the three were men and two of them apparently were rickshaw pullers,' said Dinesh, in charge of the DDU police chowki. 'They we...

Four Malaysians in Hospital for Bird Flu Checks

Four people are in hospital in Terengganu state after possible exposure to bird flu, Malaysia's health minister said Monday as officials monitored for new outbreaks of the deadly virus. Chua Soi Lek said the four were hospitalised in the eastern state's capital Kuala Terengganu after coming down with fevers and coughs. 'They have had contact with chickens and ducks which had died....