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Indian And Danish Research Agencies To Work Together For Osteoporosis

India’s biotechnology company Avestha Gengraine Technologies (Avesthagen) has tied up //with Denmark's Centre for Clinical and Basic Research and Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) for osteoporosis research. The collaboration is being done through the joint venture called Avesta Nordic Research Pvt. Ltd in which Avesthagen has invested 2.5 million euros and the Danis...

Being together matters, both in marriage and smoking

The risk of stroke is high among couples who smoke according to a new study// which has reported a six times higher relative risk of total stroke than cigarette-smoking women with non-smoking spouses. The study recorded the smoking and marital status and the incidence of total stroke and ischemic stroke (a stroke caused by a blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain) among various gr...

Japanese And Chinese Pharmaceutical Companies Join Together In Drug Testing

Japanese Pharmaceutical Company and Chinese Biotech Company join hands to form a new venture for production of drugs and clinical trials. The Japanese company GNI merged with Chinese company Shanghai Genomics. // The wet lab facilities and validation would be done by Shanghai Genomics. China will be testing new lead compounds produced by GNI, such as new compounds for lung fibrosis and...

Historic trial for tuberculosis launched together by leading drug companies

Two leading pharmaceutical companies, The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and Bayer Healthcare have announced a partnership to coordinate the study to uncover the potential of an existing antibiotic, //Moxifloxacin, to shorten the standard 6-month treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one-third of the world's population, resulting in ni...

Eating together has both psychological and health impacts

A leading research university of Australia that of Queensland has conducted a research study that advocates eating together with the family to remain fit and healthy. The study was the world’s longest health study and quite useful in curing the problem of teenage obesity. // In the words of lead researcher, Dr Abdullah Al Mamun from UQ's School of Population Health, “regular family mea...

India Needs To Get Its Act Together To Curb the Rise of HIV/AIDS

India doesn’t seem to have learnt its lessons yet, because there appears to be a lackadaisical approach in curbing the spread of AIDS/HIV//. Next only to South Africa with the highest number of AIDS/HIV cases, the figure touching a mammoth five million mark as per statistics in 2003, very little has been done ever since to bring down the number of AIDS/HIV cases, according to Prof Suzanne...

Work Together For Better health

Ranchi. On the occasion of 'World Health Day' that was organised by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) there was a call for all in healthcare industry to join hands to give better health to the society. // The state IMA secretary, Ajay Kumar Singh, said doctors alone are not sufficient in providing healthcare to the people. He appealed to everyone including doctors, paramedics, nurse...

NGOs and Various Groups Come Together To Address the Issues on AIDS

AIDS in are country is deep-rooted and hence various organizations are putting in their effort to combat the deadly disease. Various organizations are working towards the complete eradication// of the disease from the face of the earth. One such step is taken by the Manipur AIDS Control Society, India, and asked all the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are thriving day and night...

Indian And Chinese Doctors Join Together To Prove The Efficacy Of Herbal Drugs

Indian and Chinese doctors will collaborate to prove through clinical trials the efficacy of some traditional herbal drugs that have for generations// been known to cure but for which there is no scientific evidence. "The protocol of the first such collaboration has been approved by the board members and the final draft report is soon to be submitted to the government for seeking fundi...

Celebrities Come together to help a Noble Cause

Chennai: ‘Unite for children, unite against AIDS’ a programme organized by ‘Elements Regazzo’ in association with the UNAIDS and the UNICEF will be held in Chennai at the Taj Coromandel hotel on June 9th and will bring together VIPs, artists, politicians and activists to spread HIV/AIDS //awareness amongst the youth. Celebrities who have agreed to join include Ayesha Takia, Shamita S...

India, US to Work Together on AIDS, Health Issues

India and the US have signed three agreements on renewal of cooperation in the fields of AIDS, maternal and child health and environmental and occupational health for another five years. // Memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to renew the agreements, first initialled in 2000, were signed following bilateral discussions between India's Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramado...

Spiritual Leaders Join Together to Fight Against HIV/AIDS in India

Chennai: Spiritual leaders, including Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorai Raj//, have come together to fight HIV/AIDS, stressing the need for preventive care for a disease that has hit five million Indians. They discussed HIV/AIDS care, giving the much-needed prophetic voice to the stigma and discrimination related to the disease. Many of them head groups that care for...

Hospitals in Auckland get their act together to tide over potential strike

While negotiators are trying their best to arrive at a resolution, the emergency planning cell is gearing up to put its best forward in the event of a strike by medical// lab workers. The strike by 1200 lab staff might put many critical laboratory services in jeopardy, including emergency surgeries. Dr Davies said,” Services that would be affected include the provision of blood, all...

How Bloods Vessels are Linked Together?

The Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have discovered a heretofore-unknown mechanism for -how the body links together its blood vessels.// New blood vessels are formed when a "shoot" sprouts from an already existing vessel. These shoots lengthen, branch off and contact other vessels as they form communicating networks of channels. The process is called "angiogenesis" and is importan...

US, India Join Together to Improve Healthcare in India

The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has launched a new initiative, Coalition for Healthy India (CHI), to improve access to healthcare in India, including access to the latest treatments and innovation. "Access to effective and affordable healthcare is essential to ensure India's remarkable growth," USIBC President Ron Somers said Thursday while announcing the initiative of the bo...

Outrage Against Gay PartnersInCrime Kept Together

There is widespread disgust and outrage expressed over the housing together of two convicted prisoners. The partners-in crime; homosexual lovers Robbie Sebastian Wheeler, 43, and his boyfriend Victor Leslie Urquhart, 46, have been placed together in Hakea jail, in West Australia. The two men were convicted last month for kidnapping a teenage boy and sexually molesting him for 20 day...

Britney and K-Fed Getting Back Together?

Britney Spears has sparked rumours that Kevin Federline might be getting back together. The singer is said to be desperate to get the couple's relationship another go for the sake of their two young sons - Sean Preston and Jayden James. A pal revealed that the couple are now talking things through and that Britney has spent two nights in the past week with him. "...