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Medicare to cover services provided by rural health care personnels.

Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott told the press that all the medical expenditures of pregnant women will be covered by medicare if they consulted qualified health care // personnels. This plan is introduced mainly to ensure proper medical care in the rural areas. But in a period of six months this plan will add $5 million to the annual expenditure of medicare. This plan...

Clean Blades To Be Provided To Self-Harmers

In order to minimize self- inflicted damage from unclean blades and dirty instruments, it has been proposed to provide clean blade to self-harmers. In addition, they can be provided guidance // on where to cut to avoid drastic consequences. This move is comparable to the provision of sterile needles to drug addicts. The proposal is one of the guidelines for senior nurses who attend to...

Daughter Turns Saviour: Ailing Mother Provided Wonder Drug Herceptin, To Fight Cancer

A woman with breast cancer found a savior in her daughter, who helped raise the life-saving sum of ￡47,000, so that the drug//, Herceptin could be made available for her to fight debilitating breast cancer. Shropshire Primary Care Trust had refused the cancer drug to Mrs. Morgan, of Whitchurch. Katie Morgan, her daughter and all of ten, wrote to Shropshire MP Owen Paterson, and expres...

Obstetrical Anesthesia Equally Safe When Provided by CRNAs or Anesthesiologists

Obstetrical anesthesia, whether provided by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) or anesthesiologists, is extremely safe//. There is no difference in safety between hospitals that use only CRNAs compared with those that use only anesthesiologists, according to a new study. The study, titled "Anesthesia Staffing and Anesthetic Complications During Cesarean Delivery" was a r...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

Securing its place as an indispensable defence against the development and spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), the Stop TB Partnership announced today that its drug supply arm, the Global Drug Facility, has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the past six years. "This is an important milestone, because getting anti-TB drugs to people wh...
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Clinical Trial Suggests Bone Marrow Stem Cells Are Useful for Spinal Cord Injury; PrimeCell Therapeutics Provided Pre-Clinical Study

SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - PrimeCell(TM)Therapeutics LLC (http://www.primecelltherapeutics.com) todayannounced that it provided research support and pre-clinicalstudies for a clinical trial to assess the safety, feasibility andefficacy of implanting autologous bone marrow stem cells intospinal cord injury (SCI) patients. Dr. Luis Geffner presented a preliminary rep...

Late Breaking Data Released at ADA Showed that the Investigational Use of Januvia and Metformin as Initial Combination Therapy Provided Significant Glucose Lowering Efficacy over 54 Weeks in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 23, 2007 - Late breaking datapresented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 67th AnnualScientific Sessions showed that, when used investigationally asinitial therapy, JANUVIA(TM) (sitagliptin) in combination withmetformin provided significant glycemic improvement and wasgenerally well tolerated over 54 weeks in patients with type 2diabetes. Additional new...

Novavax Pandemic Flu Vaccine Provided Protection Against a Lethal Challenge of Live Virus, Pre-Clinical Data Show

Study Presented at Second International Conference on AvianInfluenza at France's Pasteur Institute PARIS, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Very low doses ofNovavax Inc.'s pandemic influenza vaccine provided protectionagainst a lethal challenge of live H5N1 viruses, according topre-clinical data presented here today at the Second InternationalConference on Avian Influenza in Humans....

Copaxone Treatment over Two Years after Short Term Induction with Mitoxantrone Provided Sustained Benefits to Active Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2007 - New data havedemonstrated that relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS)patients treated with COPAXONE(R) (glatiramer acetate injection)following brief immunosuppression with mitoxantrone experienced a90 percent reduction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-monitoreddisease activity compared to their baseline. These benefits wereachieved...

Trexima (Sumatriptan/Naproxen Sodium) Provided Relief of Both Traditional and Non-traditional Migraine Symptoms

New data show efficacy across the range of migraine symptoms BOSTON, May 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- While many migrainesufferers experience traditional symptoms such as nausea orsensitivity to light and sound, migraine attacks can also involvesymptoms like neck pain or sinus pain that are not traditionallyassociated with migraine headaches. New data show thatsignificantly more patients usin...
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