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Cipla joint managing director Amar Lulla told NW18 the company was in talks with Pfizer to pursue "commercial matters", including research and development, manufacture and supply of pharmaceutical products in India for the US multinational. Lulla, however, denied an 'alliance'...

A breakthrough study reveals that meditation may slow down the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks by strengthening the immune system. While it is widely believed that promiscuity or overlapping multiple sexual partners are driving the HIV epidemic,...

Meditation may be an effective remedy in treating insomnia, latest research suggests. According to Ramadevi Gourineni, principal study investigator and director of the insomnia programme at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Illinois, insomnia is thought to be a 24-hour problem of...

Brad Partridge, now at the Mayo Clinic in the US, conducted the interviews as part of his PhD. They identified their ethical, social and personal beliefs towards pharmaceutical life extension. Lucke said the research was inspired by studies showing the...

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which drugs block HIV-1 from entering host cells. Cellular invasion by HIV-1 requires the concerted action of two proteins on the viral surface: gp120 and gp41. The function of gp41 is to get...

According to a report in the December 2009 print issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology , breaking the nervous-immune systems link might lead to new treatments for a wide range of autoimmune disorders like lupus, arthritis, and eczema under...