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Swine Flu Test Kit From Indian Council of Medical Research

August 25, 2009 by srrpenna

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has plans to develop a low-cost testing kit for testing the A/H1N1 infection. This information was told by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday.

Azad who was speaking to the reporters on Monday told that the virus infection, which has consumed 6 lives and infected about 864 people, is spreading in the country. He added that the government will be procuring an additional 22,000 swine flu testing kits.

Read from India Server

t+ Medical launch new blood pressure monitoring product

August 25, 2009 by neondrum

t+ Medical today announces that it has launched its new product t+ blood pressure lite which enables NHS healthcare professionals to effectively monitor their patients’ blood pressure without patients having to leave their home. t+ blood pressure lite is the latest in a range of products from UK based t+ Medical, which uses the mobile phone or internet to monitor and manage health conditions.
For more information read the full news release here:
www.neondrum.com/public/public_release.php?id=163

Swine flu: People with mild symptoms 'need not be given Tamiflu'

August 23, 2009 by srrpenna

Healthy people with mild symptoms of swine flu need not be given Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, appearing to call into question how the drugs are given out in this country.

Read more from Telegraph.co.uk

Italian researchers develop heart-repair method with adult stem cells

August 21, 2009 by srrpenna

Italian researchers have developed a method to repair a damaged heart using adult stem cells, and said it confirmed that the adult cells were more therapeutically useful than embryonic stem cells.

"The adult stem cell is already prepared to differentiate in the tissue we want to repair. And it is certainly more productive, less wasteful and less dangerous -- beyond the ethical aspects -- to work with adult stem cells instead of embryonic stem cells," said Settimio Grimaldi, an expert at the Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine in Rome, which carried out the research.

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