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View Post: India to have guidelines for probiotic food by 2010 infectious ...
20 Nov 2009 by Indo Asian News Service  
'Probiotic food is an emerging category in India and with the number of probiotic foods making a foray into Indian market, it becomes imperative to establish guidelines to regulate them,' said N.K. Ganguly, former director general of ICMR. ... said: 'Besides playing an important role in digestive, immunological and respiratory functions, probiotics could have a significant effect on alleviation of infectious diseases in children, women and other high risk groups.' ...
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View Post: Wipro unveils new application for remote healthcare
11 hours ago by Ians  
This has spurred advances in remote patient monitoring technologies, which are beyond the reach of the majority in the emerging economies, Wipro general manager (medical devices) Manimaran said in the statement. Wipro's strategy is aimed at bridging the gap by .... The application, "Outbreaks Near Me", builds upon the mission and proven capability of HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases. ...
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View Post: General Dynamics Employee Joe Nichols, M.D., Honored with ...
20 Nov 2009
Institute of Allergies and,Infectious Diseases (NI...al,Institutes of Health (NIH), that it has been aw...smallpox vaccine based on AlphaVax,s proprietary,v...studies in rodents and,non- human primates to furt. ...
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View Post: MIT hosts special forum on preventing infectious diseases at ...
9 Nov 2009
At MIT's at a price for a session on the R&D and of preventing and treating infectious diseases. Researchers are glad to have the attention in the growing interest from investors but say not enough is being done to improve existing ... This group need to make sure that vaccines are safe is in most cases more rigorous because vaccinations are by definition a medicine given to people who were -- You know what that dean he made -- scenes and in general Barry says much more. ...
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View Post: Hutchinson Center to build first US cancer clinic and training ...
2 Nov 2009
“Better understanding the link between infectious disease and cancer provides a unique opportunity to reduce cancer-related suffering and death in both resource-rich and resource-poor regions.” Casper and colleagues hope that this joint ...
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View Post: Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases have increasingly ...
18 Nov 2009 by doctorsimz  
Infectious diseases have increasingly threatened the lives of millions of people world-wide in the last two decades, which challenges the general belief that infectious diseases are under control (Schneider, 2004). ...
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View Post: Confirmation that Young Kids Need 2 Doses of H1N1 Vaccine
13 Nov 2009
Here are the specifics from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' report on Pediatric H1N1 Vaccine Clinical Studies: Among the youngest children (6 to 35 months), 100 percent had a robust immune response after the ... In general, the immune responses in children receiving two 15-microgram doses and those receiving two 30-microgram doses of vaccine were similar, suggesting that receipt of two 15 microgram doses is adequate to elicit a strong immune ...
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View Post: A BULLET TO THE HEAD - RevolutionRadio.org
3 hours ago by Paul Martin  
Our presentation was mostly about opposition to vaccine mandates but we were able to address our opposition to vaccines in general. Based on the hundreds of comments we received, the debate (found all on YouTube) was well received and ... After 200 years, with our many advances in science and medicine, you would think that someone could develop a method to protect babies and adults from infectious disease other than injecting them with animal cells, stray viruses, ...
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View Post: Vietnam military health, logistics reps visit Hickam
16 Nov 2009 by afnews@afnews.af.mil (Tech. Sgt. Kerry Jackson)  
Six delegates from the Vietnam military's health and general logistics fields met with US Air Force officials here Nov. 10 during a 13th Air Force-hosted visit. The visit was designed to familiarize the Vietnamese delegates with how the US military conducts surveillance, screenin. ... The visit was designed to familiarize the Vietnamese delegates with how the U.S. military conducts surveillance, screening and testing of infectious diseases, to include AIDS and influenza. ...
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