Shantha Biotech targeting global orders
Shantha Biotech is expecting orders from international organisations for its flagship pentavalent vaccine which is under clinical trials, currently. The company based in Hyderabad, India, was bought by French More...
Marketing application withdrawn: Cell Therapeutics Inc.
On Monday, Cell Therapeutics Inc said that it has willingly withdrawn the application for marketing its cancer drug – Pixuvri. This sent down its shares by 17 percent before the bell. The company said that More...
Respiratory illness strikes many in Mexico
The United Mexican States government said that forty people recently died on account of extreme, cold weather, while thirty two died due to flu. The health secretariat explained that out of the forty, thirty individuals More...
Illness perceptions matter in treatment: Prof.Petrie
As per a recent research conducted jointly by Keith Petrie of the University of Auckland, New Zealand and John Weinman of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London, U.K, the perceptions that one More...
Human brain cells from skin samples
Scientists of Edinburgh’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Scotland, in a startling medical breakthrough, have created neurons or brain cells, from skin samples of patients suffering mental illnesses like schizophrenia More...
Tasar silk in cardiac repair
Silk has been well known for its use in clothing material, since times immemorial. However, recently, scientists at Max Planck, Germany, have also found its application in growing replacement tissue for damaged More...
Transfusion saves British baby born with no blood
Doctors gifted Oliver Morgan – a new life, after rescuing the baby boy born with practically no blood, post a lifesaving transfusion. A rare medical condition known as Vasa Previa, drained his body of nearly More...
Grape seed extract in cancer treatment
Cancer, known medically as malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. Cell growth occurs through a cell division cycle or cell cycle. This cycle involves a More...
Infant death toll reaches 82, in West Bengal
West Bengal, India: Deaths of seven infants have been reported from West Bengal’s Malda sub-division hospital, in last twelve hours. With this, the death toll has reached an overall figure of 82 in merely twenty More...
Children of nurturing mothers are physically healthier
Brandeis psychologist Margie Lachman with Gregory Miller and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles; in their recent studies, have reported that adults who More...