US specialist eyes using old drugs to treat more infections
August 2nd, 2012 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 2 (IANS) The prohibitive cost of placing a single new drug on the shelves, amounting to $1 billion, is prompting scientists to look at existing drugs to ... Read more...
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TCG Lifesciences to foray into bio-tech medicine
February 16th, 2012 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) Kolkata-based contract research company TCG Lifesciences will foray into the field of bio-tech medicine in the next two years, a top company official said Thursday."We are ... Read more...
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Now, just one bone-building jab is all it takes to cure osteoporosis
April 23rd, 2011 - 3:26 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 23 (ANI): A new bone-building drug has been developed that will help reduce the frequency of treatments for osteoporosis sufferers from once a day to once every three months.Most of ... Read more...
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A jab to beat osteoporosis by building new bones
April 22nd, 2011 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 22 (IANS) A jab to treat osteoporosis by helping build new bones and drastically reducing the frequency of treatment has been developed.
Osteoporosis occurs when old bones are ... Read more...
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New treatment for cancer using camel’s milk, urine?
January 12th, 2011 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Sharjah, Jan 12 (IANS/WAM) A team of researchers are claiming to have made a scientific breakthrough by developing a medical formula for treating cancer using camel's milk and urine.Abdalla A. Alnajjar, president ... Read more...
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FDA Nixes Weight Loss Drug Lorcaserin On Safety Ground
October 26th, 2010 - 5:54 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
San Diego, Oct 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a recent move the Food and Drug Administration in the USA turned down the application for a new medicine meant for weight ... Read more...
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Russia develops new medicine for Parkinson’s disease
September 17th, 2010 - 3:49 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian scientists claimed to have successfully tested a medicine which could be a breakthrough in treating patients of Parkinson's disease.
"We have synthesised a compound which completely removes ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Cuba achieves one-shot vaccine for five diseases (Lead)
July 20th, 2010 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, July 20 (IANS) Cuban scientists have come out with a single-dose vaccine to prevent five diseases---diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Hepatitis B and Haemophilus flu Type B, the state-owned Prensa Latina news ... Read more...
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Cuba achieves single shot vaccine for five diseases
July 20th, 2010 - 5:15 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, July 20 (IANS) Cuba has achieved a single-dose vaccine to prevent five diseases -- diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Hepatitis B and Haemophilus flu Type B, reports Prensa Latina.
Registered by the Centre ... Read more...
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DRDO develops new medicine to fight deadly wild mosquitoes
July 15th, 2010 - 8:44 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi/ Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 15 (ANI): Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) after decades of research has successfully developed a breakthrough technology to fight away deadly mosquitoes which transmits diseases like Malaria, ... Read more...
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New medicine fights bird flu better
December 22nd, 2009 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) A new drug on the threshold of final testing in humans may be more potent and safer for treating the deadly bird flu than the antiviral drug Tamiflu, ... Read more...
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Piramal completes first phase trial of new diabetes medicine
August 25th, 2009 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Pharmaceutical major Piramal Life Sciences Tuesday said it has completed the phase-I clinical trials of its new medicine that will make the treatment of diabetes easier and ... Read more...
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Daily pill may help treat blood cancer patients
July 26th, 2009 - 12:13 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, July 26 (ANI): Blood cancer, which has traditionally given sufferers a survival time of just a few years, may soon be curable with the aid of a daily pill.Cancer specialists ... Read more...
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New drug target to combat Alzheimer’’s disease identified
February 13th, 2009 - 12:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): Scientists at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) claim that they have discovered a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimers disease.The team led by Amantha Thathiah, in collaboration ... Read more...
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Extract of the plant cat’’s claw may harbour dengue cure
December 3rd, 2008 - 6:57 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, December 3 (ANI): A plant from the Amazon region called the cats claw has been found to be effective in combating dengue.
Reports appearing in the Brazilian media say ... Read more...
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Drug marketing techniques compromising patients safety, says report
December 3rd, 2008 - 12:19 pm ICT by ANI
London, December 3 (ANI): Patients safety is being compromised in America because medicines these days are reviewed and released onto the market faster than ever before, says a report.
Author David ... Read more...
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Zardari vows to suck oxygen out of Talibans system
September 29th, 2008 - 10:01 am ICT by ANI
New York , Sept 29 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has said that he wanted to suck life out the Taliban and other terrorists so that the menace of terrorism ... Read more...
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Drugs patents ‘killing millions of poor’
July 18th, 2008 - 2:14 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, July 18 (IANS) Drugs companies should be given incentives to serve the health needs of the global poor as international rules on intellectual property are contributing to millions ... Read more...
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Top Indian paediatric body to lobby for pneumonia vaccine
April 10th, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by admin
By Prashant K. Nanda
Udaipur (Rajasthan), April 10 (IANS) With pneumonia killing nearly 400,000 children in the country annually, the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) will lobby with the health ministry to introduce ... Read more...
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Chimps self-medication may help humans discover new drugs
December 26th, 2007 - 1:24 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): Ugandan and French scientists have suggested that chimpanzees ability to treat ailments with plants might help humans discover new drugs.The study, led by Sabrina Krief, a French veterinary ... Read more...
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