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New entrants to multiple sclerosis market will drive 10% pa growth through 2018
The Pharma Letter … reformulations of platform injectables and three highly efficacious monoclonal antibodies – Genzyme/Bayer’s (BAYN: DE) Lemtrada (alemtuzumab), Roche (ROG: SIX)/Genentech’s ocrelizumab and Biogen Idec/AbbVie’s (NYSE: ABBV) daclizumab. |
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Heart institute starts new treatment for heart failure…
New Vision The new treatment “Cardiac Re-synchronization Therapy’ (CRT) is a highly technical mode of treatment for heart failure involving implantation of a special pace maker in the heart with the aim of taking over the whole function of the heart. Speaking at … |
Times of India |
Cheating sleep damages your heart
Times of India All studies are united by one critical association — an adverse impact on the heart. A Norwegian study conducted earlier this year found that insomnia may triple the risk of developing heart failure. A 2008 University of Chicago study found that one … |
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Indian-American doctors launch heart-disease education networks
New York Daily News Washington, July 26 — With heart disease emerging as the number one killer among Indians, an ethnic doctors’ group has launched educational “Networks” to foster high quality medical education of Asian Indian origin physicians in the US. Launched by … |
Saving newborn lives in India: A look at govt initiativesReuters AlertNetIndia today accounts for nearly one third of all newborn deaths worldwide but fortunately the Indian govt agrees that saving newborn lives should be a national priority, writes Dr…
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Chinese search for infant formula goes global
Times of India At Lung Fung Garden, a street mall that is one subway stop from Lo Wu, employees and managers of pharmacies displaying towers of formula cans said that business had plummeted. “Before, we would sell out of our stock,” said one man at the Lung Fung … |
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Interfaith: Organ donations not only saves lives, it keeps commandments
Ventura County Star Noam suffered irreversible lower-brain death after falling from a fourth-story window in his home to the second floor below. The Naor family who are religiously observant consulted with their rabbi who agreed with their decision to donate their son’s … |
Times of India |
Battle the silent killer, hepatitis
Times of India … carrier frequency of 2%-4%. India is home to 11% of the world’s people with chronic hepatitis B and the number of deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma or cirrhosis each year is between 100,000 and 200,000. … With the most comprehensive multi … |
Times of India |
Indian-American doctors launch heart disease education networks
Times of India “AAPI has a mandate to help disseminate our medical knowledge, our expertise and technological advances to the rest of the world, and to India in particular,” said AAPI president Jayesh Shah. Within these “Networks,” AAPI has recognized renowned … |
Emperor of all maladiesThe New Indian ExpressThe cancers most common among women are breast, cervical, oral, ovarian, endometrial, lung and colon cancer. Breast cancer is the … Ovarian cancer has also recently emerged as one of the most common malign…