Immune Drug Helps With Kidney DisorderRedOrbitBecause the drug rituximab specifically targets immune cells involved in the development and progression of IMN, Piero Ruggenenti, M.D., Giuseppe Remuzzi, M.D., FRCP (from Mario Negri Institute for Pharmaco…
Health ministry plans plain packaging of tobacco products – Newstrack India
Health ministry plans plain packaging of tobacco productsNewstrack IndiaThe Global Adult Tobacco Survey says India has nearly 274.9 million tobacco users, the third-largest in the world. Tobacco kills nearly one million people every year due to tobacco…
Pluristem Poised To Benefit From The Evolution of Regulatory Requirements
By Scott Matusow, Contributor Trying to find companies that represent the future of the biotech sector can be tricky for investors. The sector currently leads the market because Food and Drug Administration …
The myth of the physically unfit Indian – BBC News
BBC NewsThe myth of the physically unfit IndianBBC NewsWell, doctors will tell you that with the country riding a diabetes and heart disease epidemic, most Indians are physically unfit. As the middle class swells, more Indians are leading desk-bound se…
FDA approves Novartis Afinitor to treat advanced breast cancer – Pharmaceutical Business Review
FDA approves Novartis Afinitor to treat advanced breast cancerPharmaceutical Business ReviewNovartis has won FDA approval for Afinitor (everolimus) tablets for the treatment of postmenopausal women with advanced hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative…
Exemplary life: Capt Lakshmi Sehgal met patients till the end – The Hindu
AFPExemplary life: Capt Lakshmi Sehgal met patients till the endThe HinduA frail Capt Lakshmi Sehgal, who had led the women's wing of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, met patients at her Kanpur clinic a day before she suffere…
Surgeon removes appendix without patient being told
NHS Lothian has been slammed after a blundering surgeon removed a patient’s appendix without recording it – a mistake that was only discovered eight years later after the patient was wrongly diagnosed with appendicitis.
The Healthcare Short Sales That Never Fit – TheStreet.com
The Healthcare Short Sales That Never FitTheStreet.comJohnson & Johnson's(JNJ) Orthoclone OKT3 (known chemically as muromonab) received FDA approval in 1986 for the prevention of acute transplant rejection, but the technology relied solely on m…
Jobs liver transplant house purchase cost Tennessee $0.5m
The house that Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs bought, near the University of Tennessee Health Science Centre where he had a liver transplant, lost the state $475,000. Related Stories Apple to appeal against court-ordered Samsung adverts Analysts discuss…
20-year-old's life depends on second heart transplant
Aisha Rivera needs to undergo a second heart transplant for her third lease on life. And she is only 20 years old.