MNCs are Against Ramdev's Remedies: Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena on Sunday strongly reacted to the recent Union Health Ministry notice to yoga guru Baba Ramdev,// saying the government is compromising national interests in connivance with multinational companies. ...

INDUS Corporation Awarded Army Office of the Surgeon General Contract

...support the warfighter. We are privileged to have this opportunity to do our part in providing the best care available for our wounded warriors," said shiv Krishnan, INDUS Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. "Keeping the Army's command structure appraised of the casualty situation is a serious respons...

Key to virulence protein entry into host cells discovered

...host cells." The breakthrough was enabled by an ingenious device for introducing DNA into living tissues invented by a Virginia Tech undergraduate, shiv Kale. Kale, who has subsequently joined Dr. Tyler's research team as a graduate student, remarked: "The double-barreled Gene Gun enabled us to make mu...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...gnancy or not. We also see whether they are aware of a balanced diet - and not necessarily costly food," said Kamla Jaiswal, a community leader in the shiv Nagar shantytown. Shiv Nagar is one of the scores of slums in Indore - the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh - that houses over 485 familie...

Majority of Padma Awards Go to Doctors from Delhi

...hushan 1. Prof. (Dr.) Balu Sankaran, Medicine, Delhi. Padma Bhushan 1. Dr. Prithipal Singh Maini, Medicine, Delhi. 2. Dr. shiv Kumar Sarin, Medicine, Delhi. 3. Prof. (Vaidya) Shriram Sharma, Medicine, Maharashtra. 4. Hakim Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri, Medicine, W...

Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

...cts. The deliberations and recommendations, particularly with regard to a consensual approach on regulation of TM, can be useful inputs for IRCH. Shri shiv Basant, Joint Secretary AYUSH welcomed the delegates. In his keynote address Dr. Nityanand, former Director, CDRI Lucknow brought out the issues, whic...

Chikungunya in the Capital

...samples, two males and one female, submitted to us in August have tested positive. These patients had been to Andhra recently,' said NICD Director Dr. shiv Lal. 'We had cases of what appeared to be patients with Chikungunya fever coming in for treatment and samples of the same were dispatched to NICD....

Leptospirosis Epidemic Overtakes Gujarat

...odent samples for plague as well as for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, also transmitted by rodents, had been found negative. NICD Director-General shiv Lal sent the report. The report however, confirmed the spread of leptospirosis in Gujarat. Mr. Singh has said that the eight deaths in the city ov...

Scheme for Combating Malnourishment in MP Children Yet to Pick Up

...ive kilos when admitted to the Bal Shakti camp. A week later he weighed 5.9 kg. The verdict on the Bal Shakti scheme is mixed. Programme Officer shiv Kumar Sharma observed: "About 1,000 children have visited the special treatment centres since January. But only 50 children came back for further trea...

Rs 5 Lakh Compensation To Patient For Negligence In Treatment

... District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum comprising President K K Chopra and members Neeru Mittal and R K Prabhakar, acting on the complaint of one shiv Kumar Sharma, also ordered the St Stephen's Hospital to pay Rs 5000 as litigation cost. "The hospital had caused sufferings to Sharma that were ...

Shiv in Medical Technology

Successful Results for Mymetics Corporation's Mucosal HIV/AIDS Vaccine Viral Challenge Significantly Exceeds Expectations

...X), a vaccine development company, is pleased to announce their preliminary shiv challenge results on non-human primates previously immunized with the Compa.... Female Chinese Macaca Mulata (macaques) were chosen as their infection by shiv through the genital route closely resembles the observed human infection ra...

Shiv in Biological News

Wistar Institute researcher receives 'New Innovator' award from NIH

...nt at Nagaoka University in Japan, he developed a strain of carrot that could grow in the desert. While a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of geneticist shiv Grewal, Ph.D., at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he mapped an uncharted region of the fission yeast genome and published the results in Science a not...

Penn researchers find monkeys able to fend off AIDS-like symptoms with enhanced HIV vaccine

... platform is critical for further development in humans. The research builds on previous work aimed at engineering a more potent immune response to shiv DNA vaccine technology. Mouse model studies previously showed that the cytokine IL-15 -- a substance that can improve the body's natural response to i...

Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention

...ich infects only monkeys. The Tulane team tested gels containing two small molecules and a peptide -- alone and in combination --designed to block shiv from fusing with its target cells at or near the tissue lining of the vagina, to see whether this would prevent the virus from entering the monkeys' b...