Doctors look to law for healing touch
Seek concrete steps, enforcement after yet another attack on medical professionals
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Alcoholics who smoke risk faster brain aging
Alcoholics who smoke develop more problems with memory, ability to think quickly and efficiently, and problem-solving skills than those who don’t smoke, a first-of-its-kind study has found.
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At lower price, cervical cancer vaccine set to reach more women
Agency has managed to secure a single dose for $4.50, as against market price of $130
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India unveils first indigenous rotavirus vaccine
Rotavirus responsible for approximately 4,53,000 child deaths due to diarrhoea globally each year
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Related: One lakh children in India die of diarrhoea annually: Lancet
NEW YORK,
May 16, 2013
Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. Stem...
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May 9, 2013
Bio-inspired peptides for gene delivery
Seeking to overcome the problem of suitable delivery mechanism for gene therapy, scientists at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have designed peptide-based delivery platforms...
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Washington,
May 6, 2013
Now, portable device to detect TB
A handheld cancer diagnostic device can rapidly detect tuberculosis (TB) and other important infectious bacteria, scientists have found.
The device developed by Massachusetts General Hosp...
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CHENNAI,
May 2, 2013
Surgery helps with diabetes: city doc
Metabolic surgery, a type of bariatric surgery, for morbidly obese Type 2 diabetics has been recently found to have anti-diabetic effects, pushing the disease into remission. A private h...
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LONDON,
April 20, 2013
GSK paid competition to delay production of generic drug, says U.K. regulator
GlaxoSmithKline could face a multi-million-pound fine over allegations it paid other drug companies to slow down production of cheaper versions of its most profitable anti-depressant, burdening ta...
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Bangalore,
April 15, 2013
Concern over irregular supply of medicine for haemophilia
Irregular supply of medicines for treating haemophilia in government hospitals is making it difficult for patients, said Vikash Goyal, Vice-President (Development), Haemophilia Federation (India).
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April 11, 2013
Merge traditional with modern
Recommending the need for integrating alternate and modern systems of medicine in India, an official report has asked the government to formulate standard responses and guidelines for critical area...
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Washington,
April 10, 2013
Dengue vaccine closer to reality, say scientists
Researchers have inched closer to developing a novel therapy using mutated antibodies to protect people from the dengue virus.
Scientists, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Koc...
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April 7, 2013
Finally, the patients prevail
The Supreme Court has denied Novartis a patent for its anti-cancer drug Gleevec. This leaves the door open for Indian pharmaceutical companies to produce their own versions of the drug. Since thes...
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A sturdy model
DRL launches Zoledronic acid injection in U.S.
Shot in the arm for generics, say oncologists
Right to affordable drugs upheld: activists
Autism and adventure
Now, contact lenses to restore near vision
Landmark verdict, say pharma bodies
Taking stock of vaccine wastage in TN, Kerala
CHENNAI,
May 10, 2013
Mother’s bone marrow comes to 10-year-old son’s rescue
When a 10-year-old has cancer, the boy’s family and doctors obviously have to do everything under the sun to find a cure for him. That is what parents and doctors of Vikram (name changed) of Madur...
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May 9, 2013
Is the new TB drug already being misused?
Bedaquiline was the first TB drug to be discovered in more than 40 years, and the first one specifically for multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). MDR-TB arises when the M. tuberculosis bacteri...
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May 2, 2013
Scientists find key to ageing process
Scientists have found a biological command centre for the ageing process in a lump of brain the size of a nut.
The U.S. team identified the mechanism in the hypothalamus, which sits deep...
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London,
April 30, 2013
Disrupting cell signals may lead to new cancer treatments
Scientists have taken a major step towards developing new treatments for certain cancers by disrupting the internal cellular signals that lead to the uncontrolled growth of cancerous cells....
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April 15, 2013
The star in your backyard
How do you get rid of those pesky insects with an uncanny ability to bite your elbows when your hands are busy? How do you combat mosquitoes? In what must be a multi-crore industry, we fend them o...
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London,
April 12, 2013
Stem cell jab could help cure heart disease
For the first time, scientists have successfully tested a stem cell jab, a revolutionary new procedure to treat heart diseases.
The heart failure breakthrough involves injecting patients...
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KOLLAM,
April 11, 2013
Kerala-born student strikes gold with cancer research
A 16-year-old Kerala-born student in Canada has amazed experts with cutting-edge research into an experimental therapy that deploys nanoparticles of gold to kill cancer cells. Arjun Nair, a...
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NEW DELHI,
April 8, 2013
India moves ahead to get WHO’s polio eradication certificate
Having successfully completed two polio-free years, India is preparing to receive the crucial polio eradication certificate from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The certificate is issu...
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April 7, 2013
Patent justice
The rejection of the Novartis petition challenging one of the most progressive tenets of the Indian Patents Act (1970), as amended in 2005 by the Supreme Court, is a landmark verdict for the publi...
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April 7, 2013
More battles in store
Well before the Supreme Court rejected Novartis’ application for patent for Glivec (Gleevec in the U.S.), drawing attention to the dichotomy of generic and patented drugs, activists have been dema...
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Patent row: HC refuses interim relief to Merck
Gene mutation linked to leprosy in Indians
We will not yield to pressure to grant patents, says Sharma
Artful claims can’t decide patent law: court
End of R&D
Ranbaxy resumes supply of Atorvastatin tablets in US market
Landmark verdict gives big boost to cancer patients
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