The Sandoz unit of the company Novartis has finally agreed to pay a whooping dollar one fifty million Swiss francs to settle down the claims it had charged the United States and state governments inflated prices for the drugs. On the basis of this deal the company Novartis will have to pay the United States [...]
The Food and Drug Administration has licensed Hemacord, a therapy that contains self-recreating cells similar to stem cells from human cord blood. Donated umbilical cord blood can be used to treat people with life-threatening diseases, including leukaemia, other types of cancer, and immune and genetic disorders. Cord blood transplantation is often an effective alternative for people [...]
On Saturday, the commonwealth leaders have vowed to step up their fight against the deadly disease ‘polio’. They said that the war in Afghanistan was standing as an obstacle in the path of the fight and gave a warning that if the disease was not completely eradicated then the crippling disease could resurge. Now polio [...]
A new app called MyCalmBeat that promotes slow breathing can be of great help for those who wish to reduce stress and improve their mental concentration. The app uses a monitor of heart rate which is attached to the ear of the person and thus detects the optimal breathing rate or the resonant frequency. This [...]
