India, Poland agree to develop herbal drugs
India and Poland will collaborate to develop herbal drugs. This was decided to an ongoing workshop in Delhi to chalk out a strategy for biotechnological approaches to herbal drugs.
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Roche withdraws heart drug in further setback
Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, suffered its second major setback in three months when it announced it was withdrawing Posicor, a new heart drug available in 34 countries, because of adverse
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S. Korea move on France, Germany pork
South Korea has said it had extended to France and Germany its policy of holding in quarantine cloven-hoofed animal products following reports of suspected outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in
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Kidney transplants boycott till today
Delhi surgeons will boycott kidney transplants till Tuesday, when the accused doctors in the Noida kidney racket are brought to a Noida court for bail. The boycott has been continuing for a week
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More compensation possible
In a softening of policy, Canada's health minister, has said he is willing to consider expanding a US$780m package to compensate hepatitis C sufferers infected through tainted
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France tests foot-&-mouth in UK sheep, fear grips Europe
France on Monday said it had found traces of foot-and-mouth in slaughtered British sheep and two French cattle which had come into contact with some of the animals had also shown symptoms of the
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Beijing acknowledges Aids epidemic
After first being a spectator to the global AIDS problem, then standing on the sidelines in denial, China is now taking its emerging AIDS epidemic seriously. It is perhaps surprising that a country
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Protein removes Alzheimer's plaques on brains in mice
A protein injection in mice melted away the brain-clogging matter characteristic of Alzhemier's dementia, raising hope that scientists may one day find a way to reverse the disease in humans. The
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Strike cripples Venezuela health care
A two week old walkout by 7,000 of the 27,000 public sector doctors in Venezuela is wreaking havov on a health care system that has been in steady decline for more than a decade. And no one has felt
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U.S. lands a blow to reptile smuggling
A federal undercover operation hs snared one of the world's most notorious traffickers in exotic reptiles, a Malaysian businessman who allegedly helped smuggle hundreds of live Komodo dragons, Timor
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Innovations
In a serendipitous discovery, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley may have found an inexpensive material for making windows more energy-efficient.
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Girl child scheme falters for want of funds
The Balika Samriddhi Yojna (girld child scheme), launched in 1997 to elevate the status of the girl child born to a family living below the poverty line, has failed to make a headway due to severe
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Good news for vegetarians
Vegetarians around the globe have a reason to celebrate. More studies are showing that eating a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables can stave off many severe illness, including cancer.A new report
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Radon in drinking water constitutes small health risk
Radon in household water supplies increases people's overall exposure to the gas, but waterborne radon poses few risks to human health, says a new report by a committee of the National Research
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A new drug to fight depression
Scientists may have stumbled onto a new way to treat depression:an experimental drug that targets a mysterious brain chemical that doctors did not know was at work in mental disorders. Merck & Co.'s
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Europe's farming nightmare worsens
Europe's agricultural nightmare worsened as eight new cases of foot-and-mouth disease were confirmed in the UK. Two cases were found in
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Novartis seeks quick approval for new cancer drug Glivec
Novartis AG has filed for US and European Union approval for its cutting edge cancer therapy Glivec, putting the drug on track to hit the market as early as the third quarter of the year.
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A frustrating quest for a frozen virus
Digging in a cemetery on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway, medical scientists found the seven coffins they were looking for, but the coffins were not what they wanted to find. They had hoped
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Animals, travelling more risk spreading diseases
Late last year, thousands of cattle, sheep and goats in Yemen began to suffer from fevers, vomiting and reduced milk yields. Within weeks 1,800 animals had died, while 7,800 female animals aborted
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Lives before profits, South Africa tells drug companies in court
The South African Government confronted the world's major drug manufacturers in court yesterday to argue that it has the right to put the lives of the poor ahead of multinationals' profits. The