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Daiichi-controlled Ranbaxy enjoys the first-to-file status for the drug and, therefore, has a six-month exclusive marketing right to the medicine. During the period, Ranbaxy will be the only company, other than the innovator GSK [ Get Quote ], to market...

The expert stressed that schools should also play a pro-active role in encouraging children to play and eat sensibly as kids today are at a greater risk of falling prey to obesity. In a panel discussion consisting of Dr Navjot,...

The Salk researchers' findings could explain why shift workers are unusually prone to diabetes, high cholesterol levels and obesity. "We believe that it is not shift work per se that wreaks havoc with the body's metabolism but changing shifts and...

Thus do the mint-flavoured affairs of the world go round and round. Now a team from Newcastle University appears to have proved what Brazilian herbalists have known for thousands of years: Brazilian mint tea can be as potent a painkiller...

NEW DELHI: The dengue menace continued unabated in the national capital with 25 fresh cases being reported today, taking the total number of those suffering from the vector-borne disease to 970. The city has reported more than 340 cases of...

appropriate treatment that may included medication and talk therapy . Depression is real and so is its treatment. It can effect people of any age group including the aged, adults and children and can be fatal. Fortunately, depression is treatable...

The Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed the presence of West Nile Virus Thursday in its sentinel chickens. The chickens are used to detect such mosquito-borne diseases. It is the first confirmation of the disease since November 2007. Many infected...

Fallon Clinic, a large, multispecialty medical group practice in Central Massachusetts, has announced that Lakshmi Babu, M.D. has joined ReadyMED™ by Fallon Clinic (ReadyMED), the first physician-staff ed, walk-in medical care clinic in Central Massachusetts, located in Shrewsbury.

So what's the right age for an Indian woman to start getting screened for breast cancer -- 40 or 50?...Monday that regular breast cancer screening of women should start at the age of 50 as opposed to 40, which is...

An international team of researchers have made a novel discovery that might open avenues for developing new treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases like psoriasis and asthma. They have identified a new type of immune cell that can be out of...