Maggi: Two-minute turmoil
In soup: There is no finality on the Maggi controversy some three weeks after it first surfaced Over the last 2-3 weeks, no day passed without some development being reported on Nestle’s Maggi noodles....
View ArticleSome Hope For Alzheimer's Patients From Biogen's Data, But Upside For Roche...
We are not boosting our estimate despite the recent news that Roche will re-open the trials for its experimental...
View ArticleStudy of Ebola survivors opens in Liberia
The Liberia-U.S. clinical research partnership known as PREVAIL has launched a study of people in Liberia who have survived Ebola virus disease (EVD) within the past two years. The study investigators...
View ArticlePioneering gene therapy may save babies’ lives
The baby girl reached skyward and grinned. Her impish eyes, dark as midnight, shifted left to glimpse the grownups nearby. “La la la la la!” Tenley Johnson sang on Monday morning before unleashing a...
View ArticleHealth minister allays MRSA fears, says no infection in students
State Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader on Sunday said preliminary tests have revealed that nursing students in Lakshmi Memorial College in Mangaluru do not have Methicillin-resistant...
View ArticleMRSA panic grips Mangaluru
Mangalureans as well as residents of neighbouring cities panicked for a while when hundreds of BSc students of Laxmi Memorial College of Nursing in the city staged a protest in front of the...
View ArticleTB a ticking time bomb for Mumbai, reveals data
File photo of TB hospital in Sewree If the data by a city based diagnostic centre is anything to...
View ArticleWoman isolated in US with rare deadly strain of tuberculosis travelled to...
Victorian health authorities are screening people who lived with a woman who travelled to Australian from India with a rare mutated form of tuberculosis in 2013. EXCLUSIVE A woman who travelled from...
View Article'25-30 pc milk samples in Delhi have high water content'
At least, 25-30 per cent of the milk samples tested in Delhi has low nutritional value with high water content. These samples are mostly local samples and not branded products, said an official of the...
View ArticleINSIGHTS into the WORLD / Time to upgrade tech in cervical cancer fight
By Tadao Kakizoe / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunEvery year in Japan, about 10,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer — one of the deadliest forms of the illness — with about 2,700 deaths related...
View Article731 women undergo pap smear test
As many as 731 women underwent a pap smear test in what the doctors term a record cancer screening camp at Dodaballapur in Bengaluru Rural district on...
View ArticleOhio State students caught with drugs rarely arrested
Ohio State University police rarely make drug arrests in residential halls even when they catch students red-handed. The Dispatch analyzed six years of federal Clery Act crime statistics — 2008 through...
View ArticlePhilanthropists unite to accelerate global fight against tuberculosis with...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With deadly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis on the rise, more than 20 philanthropists from New York and Boston have come together to fund a $20...
View ArticleNew Studies Highlight Antibiotic Resistance Detection With Nanosphere's...
(Source: Nanosphere Inc) NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nanosphere, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSPH), a company enhancing medicine through targeted molecular diagnostics, today announced that...
View ArticleMDR-TB spreads less within households
Unlike people with drug-susceptible TB, those with multi drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) are less likely to transmit disease to others living in the same household (also known as household contacts), a...
View ArticleNew IONA test clinical data showcased (Premaitha Health plc)
(Source: Premaitha Health plc) New IONA® test clinical data showcased at the World Congress in Fetal Medicine Manchester, UK - 24 June 2015 - Premaitha Health plc ("Premaitha" or "the Company", AIM:...
View ArticleMost private hospitals fail to report TB cases
Most of the private hospitals and clinics in the district failed to report tuberculosis cases to the Government, even though the reporting of this infectious disease is mandatory. Reporting of TB data...
View ArticlePIL seeks probe into death of Salman's guard
HC likely to hear plea soon The 13-year-old drunken-driving and hit-and-run case involving Salman Khan may take a new turn as a social activist has filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court seeking probe...
View ArticleThailand Confirms First MERS Case
Steve Herman BANGKOK— A heart patient from Oman has been confirmed as the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Thailand, the country’s health minister confirmed Thursday evening....
View ArticleUp to half of UTI diagnoses may be false, study finds
STIs, meanwhile, are going undetected Alice Robb 06.26.15 SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images Up to half of women diagnosed with a urinary tract infection might not actually have one, according to a new...
View ArticleNEEDS PHOTO -- Multi-Drug-Resistant TB Harder to Spread Among Close Contacts
Jessica Berman Incidences of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) are increasing, but British and Peruvian researchers are offering a glimmer of hope in the latest issue of PLOS Medicine. Caused...
View ArticleHow to Win the War Against Infection, Inflammation, Disease and Immunity...
(Source: Rutgers University) How to Win the War Against Infection, Inflammation, Disease and Immunity | Media Relations Your Source for University News New Jersey Medical School researchers describe...
View ArticleDNA Shed from Head and Neck Tumors Detected in Blood and Saliva (Johns...
(Source: Johns Hopkins Health System) Fast Facts: Blood and spit tests identify tumor DNA of head and neck cancer. "...the goal is to develop better screening tests to find head and neck cancers among...
View ArticleBad crack causes ‘wild night’
One of the five patients who took what police called “bad drugs” near the Byward Market area Wednesday was turning blue from lack of oxygen while another suffered serious respiratory failure, an Ottawa...
View ArticleScientists map superbug genome paving way for new treatments and prevention...
(Source: The University of Melbourne) A paper published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences involved 37 research institutions around the world and bacterial samples...
View ArticleInsight - Drug-resistant bacteria lurk in crowded Afghan war clinic
By Krista Mahr KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A frontline hospital in Afghanistan already stretched by rising war casualties is facing another, invisible danger that is only beginning to come to...
View ArticleUFC’s doping czar dives in
You’ve got to hand it to the UFC’s new doping czar Jeff Novitzky — he’s willing to walk to walk. The former federal drug investigator, who led the charge in baseball’s BALCO scandal, knows UFC fighters...
View ArticleCase against clinic over abortion
The Delhi health department clamped down on a clinic after it was found to conduct sex-selective abortions recently. Vinayak Hospital in Sultanpuri was found conducting abortion on a woman well beyond...
View ArticleMore girls being born in Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai: Cutting through the gloom of female foeticide, a bright ray has highlighted the heart-warming figure of 930 girls born in Navi Mumbai in 2014 for every 1,000 boys. The number is up from...
View ArticleKalorama: Next Generation Sequencing Proves Useful in Identifying Resistant...
NEW YORK, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Next generation sequencing may be able to bypass some of the downside of molecular testing and in doing so earn its place in clinical testing, according to...
View ArticleMetropolis hopes to win in rural India
We transformed market: CEO Ameera Shah, whose journey to transform Metropolis from a single pathology laboratory in Mumbai to a multinational chain of 125 diagnostic centres and 800 collection centres...
View ArticleDoctors in Delhi call off strike
Doctors in the national capital called off their two-day long strike late on Tuesday night, hours after Delhi government invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against them. Earlier in the...
View ArticleMapping the future for personalised medicine- Annual Report & Accounts 2014...
(Source: Proteome Sciences plc) Mapping the future for personalised medicine Annual report and accounts 2014 Over view and strategic repor t Proteome Sciences in brief Mission and vision (inside front...
View ArticlePanel urges innovative biomedical research to improve diagnosis and treatment...
An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded that ME/CFS is a complex, multifaceted disorder characterized by extreme fatigue and many other symptoms (including...
View ArticleDrug-resistant bacteria lurk in crowded Afghan war clinic
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan A frontline hospital in Afghanistan already stretched by rising war casualties is facing another, invisible danger that is only beginning to come to light: highly contagious strains...
View ArticleScrutiny of Science
GOING ASTRAY? In their enthusiasm for perfect results, some researchers resort to methods that are not quite acceptable. Benedict Carey finds out what the consequences are. The crimes and misdemeanors...
View ArticleResearch reveals new insights into a key antibiotic target in the fight...
(Source: University of Sussex) Research reveals new insights into a key antibiotic target in the fight against TB Full Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) - Stock image ©...
View ArticleFishing for clues – how ‘liquid biopsies’ are uncovering cancer’s secrets...
(Source: Cancer Research UK) Lung cancer cells (image courtesy of the London Research Institute EM unit) It takes just three minutes for a precious 10 millilitre blood sample to be carried from the...
View ArticleMolecular Diagnostics - Global Market Size, Strategy and Forecasts - 2015 to...
NEW YORK, July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A market that just keeps on growing. Molecular Diagnostics is positioned to directly benefit from the explosion in genomics knowledge. Learn all about it in this...
View ArticleHer spirit unbroken
Like many fathers, Russell Picard is hoping to hear from his 20-year-old daughter, Bella. Instead of hearing about college classes, boys or best friends, he waits for the day she will tell him she’s...
View ArticleArgos losing Waters is a real kick in the ...
Swayze Waters won’t be getting his kicks anytime soon. And neither will the Argos, to some extent. Waters is one of those indispensable players, a locker-room leader, a high character guy who has a wit...
View Article‘Patients, kin must help to check spread of TB’
Nagpur: Being home to 26% of the world's patients, tuberculosis (TB) in India has been recognized as one of the world's biggest public health problems by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Patients...
View ArticleDengue: Official figures do not give the true picture
They do not consider cases reported from private hospitals The number of dengue cases reported in the City is far more than what is placed on record by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and...
View ArticlePlayer source says CFLers taking advantage of league's paralyzed drug testing...
It's Week 4 of the CFL's paralyzed drug policy, but commissioner Jeffrey Orridge isn't concerned. He should be. A player source who spoke only on the condition of anonymity told the Winnipeg Sun there...
View ArticleClinical value of Roche’s CINtec® PLUS Cytology test confirmed for women with...
(Source: Ventana Medical Systems Inc) Tucson, AZ, June 16, 2015 - Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, today announced the publication of further results from the...
View ArticleNeck injury can’t slow Bay State softball star
Like many fathers, Russell Picard is hoping to hear from his 20-year-old daughter, Bella. Instead of hearing about college classes, boys or best friends, he waits for the day she will tell him she’s...
View Article15 hospitals found to be breeding grounds of mosquitoes, says Jain
Fifteen hospitals have been found to be breeding grounds of mosquito larvae in the city. The inspection was conducted by a team constituted by the Centre. “Fifteen hospitals were found to be breeding...
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