An Indian scientist has discovered a molecule which he claims can be a harbinger for a single drug therapy to treat tuberculosis and replace the current costly multi-drug treatment for the killer disease.
The US Food and Drug Administration has given a tentative approval for Aurobindo Pharma to market the generic Famciclovir tablets which are used to treat herpes virus infections.
A team of Dutch scientists at the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, an effective vaccine to fight tuberculosis (TB) before and after infection has developed.
Researchers at Imperial College London have discovered a protein that triggers rheumatoid arthritis.
Scientists at Inserm and Institut Pasteur has developed a prognostic test that can predict the efficacy of hepatitis C treatments has been developed. The commercialisation of the test is expected in 2011.
Scientists have begun a project to discover how to use DNA to identify the source and track the spread of hospital superbugs.
Researchers have concluded that apart from obvious explanations such as over-eating, lack of exercise, accumulation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and other reasons, obesity is of infectious origin and it is called infectobesity.
University of Southampton
A study led by World Health Organization says that developing countries have much higher hospital infection rates than the developed world.
A new UN-backed website has launched providing details of HIV/AIDS prance in the Asia Pacific region, bringing together a host of resources on the disease for researchers, healthcare providers and government officials.
He is a 15 years old boy and has become the world’s first child to live with an artificial but permanent heart. The Italian boy, suffering from muscle-wasting illness Duchenne’s syndrome, had the 10-hour operation last week to implant the heart and was said to be well in responsive to the medication, reports news agancies.
Fresenius Medical Care, a leading name in dialysis equipments and services has introduced ‘Home Heamodialysis concept’ in India, for the first time, it claimed. The announcement was made at the 13th annual PDSI Conference organised by Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India held at St John National Academy of Health and Sciences, Bangalore recently as the conference is dedicated to the various developments and evolutions taking place in peritoneal dialysis with famous nephrologists presenting their papers.
[This article was published in the September 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Transasia brings UF 1000i, automated urine particle analyser
