Glaxo hepatitis B drug
Glaxo Wellcome Plc said its hepatitis B drug in development demonstrated sustained disease fighting capacity over two years in clinical tests. The drug called lamivudine, is considered important in Glaxo's drug development portfolio for an infectious liver disease where current treatment is poor.
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 now.
A cold fact
Long term stress can make you sick : Studies under way at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh suggest that psychological stress is also a very important factor in determining who gets sick when nasal passages are invaded by a cold-causing virus. Just any stress will not do. It has to …
Malaria tops killer disease list
Despite technological advances in medical science, diseases like common cold and malaria continue to play havoc with large groups of populations more so in the third world. Malaria continues to be the number one killer in India despite highly effective drugs like primaquinn hitting the market.
Typhoid vaccines for heart patients
Heart care Foundation of India has recommended that people in general and heart patients in particular should take typhoid vaccination to avoid the deadly water born diseases.
HIV boom in Calcutta by '99
The total number of HIV infected people in Calcutta, at the end of the century, will be between 49,000 and 1,26,000, according to a study published in the latest issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research.
New surgical technique to increase height
For the first time in India, doctors have developed a technique by which a person's height can be increased by about ten inches through inexpensive surgery. The method, which involves surgery of the bones of limbs, is "very useful for short and deformed extremities" which may have become deformed because …
Manipal foundation feat in surgeries
The Manipal Heart Foundation has completed 1,000 major heart surgeries in nine months. Dr. Devi Shetty, Vice-Chairman, said that the surgeries, which had fetched about Rs. 6 crores, had enabled the hospital to break even, without any cash loss. A leading financial institution is giving a grant of Rs 7.5 …
Nasa ready to build international space station in orbit
Despite multiple delays, cost over-runs and a string of other problems, the US space agency Nasa is feverishly preparing to kick off the first grand space adventure of the 21st century - the assembly in orbit of an international space station.
The hope and the hype
Last week's breathless reports of an imminent cure were, of course, too good to be true. Still, these are exciting times in cancer research.
Catching the bug
The worst outbreak of dengue fever in years takes advantage of Southeast Asia's weakened defences : a report.
The latest from the labs
Human skin : The FDA is about to approve commercial use of living tissue grown by two biotech outfits. Engineered skin will bring relief to the 4 million people who suffer from chronic skin ulcers and the 100,000 burn victims admitted to hospitals each year.
Innovations
Scientists at Emory University's Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta have discovered a neuro-transmitter in the brain that helps control food intake and seems partially responsible for the feeling of satiety. The finding may point the way to new medications for obesity.
Breast-cancer cure
The drug tamoxifen, already standard treatment for older victims of breast cancer, works equally well in young women and could save another 20,000 lives a year worldwide if given more widely, according to a new study.
Diseased cows dumped in sea
About 100 diseased cows were dumped into the sea off the United Arab Emirates (UAE) coast late last month by the crew of an Indian ship, local newspapers said yesterday. The UAE auhtorities have sounded a public health alert and are taking steps to ensure that the dead cattle do …
