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Exercise can reduce need for disease-fighting drugs The Hindu Millions of people suffer from what are called lifestyle diseases. Though many of them are treated with expensive drugs, experts are convinced that a different approach is possible. | “The major lifestyle diseases are very treatable with exercise,” according Winfried Banzer, a professor ...
Local AIDS drug production to benefit patients Business Day | Plans to build a R1,6bn pharmaceutical plant in South Africa to produce the most expensive ingredients of antiretroviral medicines will not only benefit the economy, but also those living with HIV and AIDS. | At present, local producers of antiretr...
Wasted medicines cost NHS in the South Central region £20m a year BBC News The NHS in the South Central region says wasted medicines are costing it £20m a year. | Health chiefs said the money lost across NHS Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight could pay for 785 more nurses. | Unused or part...
Drug, diet could ease blood-pressure issue The Columbus Dispatch | Print subscribers can access the E-edition on the days they receive the paper. A web-only, 7-day subscription is just $6.49/week (billed monthly). Subscribe today! | Q: I haven’t found out why the second number of my blood pressure is consistentl...
EU approves skin cancer fighting drug: Roche PhysOrg | The European Commission gave the green light to Zelboraf, a drug used to treat adults with BRAF V600 mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma, the company announced in a statement. | If diagnosed early melanoma is generally curable but...
Glasgow drug users warned of HIV cluster BBC News A warning has been issued to injecting drug users in the west of Scotland following a cluster of new cases of HIV infection. | Six drug users in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area have been diagnosed as having been exposed to the virus since the star...
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EU strengthens anti-drug operations on cocaine route in West Africa Ghana Business News | An European Union-funded anti-drug operation (Operation COCAIR III) carried out at 30 international airports in West and Central Africa and Brazil has achieved impressive results...
Cancer drug being trialled to treat Alzheimer's Disease The Daily Telegraph Australia | A CANCER drug quickly and dramatically improved mental function and social ability and restored the sense of smell in mice bred with a form of Alzheimer's disease, suggestin...
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Men with cancer turn to alternative medicine The Daily Telegraph Australia | MORE than half of men diagnosed with cancer in Australia are turning to complementary and alternative medicine for a cure, or to improve their health, according to research from ...
Mexican army chief admits mistakes in drug war Austin American Statesman | MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army's highest official concedes the military has committed errors in the fight against organized crime and drug traffickers but says those respon...
Anti-obesity drugs with modified lifestyle help weight loss Newstrack India | Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): Researchers including one of an Indian origin have found that anti-obesity drugs coupled with lifestyle advice are effective in reducing weight and body ...
Tomato's medicinal and culinary value The Gleaner | Only one month ago 'slicing tomatoes' were $200 per pound in the Charles Gordon Market. Now you can purchase good-quality ones for $60 per pound and plummy tomatoes for $40-$50 p...
Weight gain among dangers of antipsychotic drug use in children Canada Dot Com | B.C. researchers have found a genetic variation in children that puts them at six times greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome when they take certain drugs for mental heal...
Kalam asks experts in medicine to develop new technology The Hindu Former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday that the country's best talent in the field of medicine should strive to develop innovative technology so t...
Beshear right to invest in drug treatment, more social workers Lexington Herald-Leader | The recurring theme of the upcoming state budget is cut, cut and cut some more. But Gov. Steve Beshear also is proposing some modest but strategic increases in spending on human ...
Vitamin biosynthesis find could lead to novel anti-malaria drug Newstrack India | Washington, Jan 28 (ANI): A new study has shed light on the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria causing pathogen Plasmodium, which could eventu...
Exercise can reduce need for disease-fighting drugs The Hindu Millions of people suffer from what are called lifestyle diseases. Though many of them are treated with expensive drugs, experts are convinced that a ... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Justin K. Thomas)
Russia Tests HIV Vaccine Novosti | The State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, has successfully completed the first stage of clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, V... (photo: Creative Commons / James Gathany)
Obesity harms mothers, babies: study Canberra Times | Increasing rates of weight problems among pregnant women are causing adverse outcomes for mothers and their babies, many preschoolers are not gettin... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Mexico drug wars: Murders down in Ciudad Juarez BBC News Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said murders in the country's most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, almost halved since hitting a record in 2010, wh... (photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo)
