Former Miss Russia busted for drug possession

May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

New York, May 19 (ANI): Former Miss Russia Anna Malova has been charged for criminal possession of narcotics, forgery and criminal impersonation of a physician.

A special narcotics officer busted the 1998 Miss Universe semifinalist, when she walked out of a pharmacy on 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village.

The pharmacist claimed Malova”s doctor believed Malova stole a prescription pad and wrote out phony prescriptions for painkillers.

Moreover, the police had arrested Malova less than 3 months ago over larceny, reports MyFoxny.com

News.

Malova is a medical doctor but does not hold a license to practice medicine in the United States. (ANI)

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Medical training centre promises region-wide benefits

April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Mackay Division of General Practice says it welcomes the announcement of a new $1.1 million medical training facility at the Mater Hospital.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the project in Mackay yesterday as part of the Federal Government’s proposed health system shake-up.

The facility will be run by James Cook University, providing 98 medical, nursing, midwifery, pharmacy and physiotherapy student training places.

The chief executive of the division, Christian Grieves, says the project will benefit the whole region.

“Getting students to come in and work in an area makes it much more likely that in the long-term they will stay in that place or some place that’s very similar,” he said.

“If we’re getting them into Mackay it also increases the chances that they might go to places like Sarina, Proserpine, Cannonvale, [or] Moranbah.”

Mr Grieves says he understands that resources are limited.

“If we’re going to train people we need places for them to train but in terms of delivering, or opportunities to deliver more services then that’s either going to have to come out of the private sector or out of government and I guess we’re still waiting to see just how much of that’s going to come,” he said.

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Accused armed robber in court

April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A 28-year-old man will appear in the Supreme Court in Perth later this month accused over a series of armed robberies.

Kamm Luke Levi Tomasovich and his 36-year-old girlfriend Lisa Marie Read allegedly used a toy revolver to hold up a bank, discount store and pharmacy in Bunbury.

Mr Tomasovich appeared in the Bunbury Magistrate’s Court today charged with three counts of armed robbery, three counts of attempted armed robbery and breaching his bail.

Some of the robbery charges relate to incidents in Perth and Mandurah earlier this year.

Ms Read has been charged with being an accessory to the robberies.

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Toy gun used in string of robberies

April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Police have revealed a gun used in a series of attempted armed robberies in Bunbury yesterday was a toy.

Police allege a 28-year-old man and his 36-year-old girlfriend bought a toy revolver from a toy store in Victoria Street yesterday morning and used it to threaten tellers and shop assistants at a bank and discount store.

They then allegedly held up a pharmacy in South Bunbury, escaping with an amount of cash.

They were arrested at a local caravan park a short time later.

The pair are alleged to have also been involved in three previous robberies in Perth and Mandurah.

Detective Sergeant Darren Clifton says the man has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery.

He says the woman has been charged with being an accessory after the fact.

“Three very serious armed robberies committed in the Bunbury area in the space of a few hours which terrified quite a number of female employees at various premises.”

The pair will appear in Bunbury Magistrates Court today.

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Walgreens March Sales Increase 6.4 Percent

April 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

DEERFIELD, Ill.–(Business Wire)–
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) had March sales of $5.82 billion, an increase
of 6.4 percent from $5.47 billion for the same month in 2009. Sales in
comparable stores (those open at least a year) increased 2.3 percent.

Calendar day shifts had a positive impact of 1.1 percentage points on comparable
store sales in March, which had one more Wednesday and one less Sunday compared
with March 2009. In addition, comparable store sales were helped by
approximately 0.7 percentage point due to an earlier Easter this year compared
with last year.

March pharmacy sales increased 5.6 percent, while comparable pharmacy sales
increased 2.4 percent. The effect of calendar day shifts positively impacted
comparable pharmacy sales by 1.7 percentage points. Also, comparable pharmacy
sales were negatively impacted by 2.6 percentage points due to generic drug
introductions in the last 12 months and a lower incidence of flu compared with
March 2009. Pharmacy sales accounted for 66.4 percent of total sales for the
month.

Prescriptions filled at comparable stores increased 4.5 percent in March,
including 1.5 percentage points due to more patients filling 90-day
prescriptions. Calendar day shifts positively impacted prescriptions filled in
comparable stores by 1.6 percentage points.

Total front-end sales increased 6.6 percent in March, while comparable store
front-end sales increased 2.2 percent. Comparable store front-end sales were
helped by approximately 2.1 percentage points due to this year`s earlier Easter.

The company will report sales for the combined months of March and April 2010
next month.

Calendar year-to-date sales were $16.47 billion, an increase of 4.0 percent from
$15.83 billion in 2009.

Fiscal 2010 year-to-date sales for the first seven months were $39.17 billion,
up 6.2 percent from $36.89 billion.

Walgreens opened 52 stores during March, including eight relocations, acquired
four and closed three.

At March 31, Walgreens operated 7,720 locations in all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. That includes 7,225 drugstores, 489 more than
a year ago, including 63 stores acquired over the last 12 months. The company
also operates worksite health centers, home care facilities and specialty,
institutional and mail service pharmacies. Its Take Care Health Systems
subsidiary manages more than 700 in-store convenient care clinics and worksite
health and wellness centers. Franchisees of Option Care, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Walgreens, are not included in Walgreens location or store count.

March Comparable Sales and Prescriptions Filled

Calendar Easter
Shift Generics Shift
Reported Impact Impact Impact

Total Comp Sales 2.3% 1.1% -1.7% 0.7%

Comp Front End 2.2% – – 2.1%

Comp Rx Sales 2.4% 1.7% -2.6% –

Comp Rx Scripts* 4.5% 1.6% – –

* Includes +1.5% from patients filling more 90-day prescriptions

Please note: Monthly sales numbers and the adjustments shown in the table are
preliminary and unaudited. Comparable stores are defined as those drugstore
locations open for at least 12 consecutive months without closure for seven or
more consecutive days and without a major remodel or a natural disaster in the
past 12 months. Relocated and acquired stores are not included as comparable
stores for the first 12 months after the relocation or acquisition.

Walgreens
Media Contact:
Tiffani Washington, 847-914-2925
Investor Contacts:
Rick Hans, CFA, 847-914-2385
Lisa Meers, CFA, 847-914-2361

http://news.walgreens.com

Copyright Business Wire 2010

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Brittany Murphy ‘used aliases to buy drugs’

March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

New York, March 20 (ANI): A Los Angeles pharmacist has alleged that late actress Brittany Murphy used aliases to buy drugs.

Eddie Bubar, owner of Eddie”s Pharmacy, claims he has more than 100 prescriptions he filled for Brittany, her husband Simon Monjack and mother Sharon Murphy between January 2008 and August 2009.

The ‘Just Married’ actress bought drugs such as Vicodin, hydrocodone, Klonopin from the pharmacy.

Bubar alleges one of the aliases Murphy used was “Lola Manilow Murphy.”

However, he had cut off the beauty and her family just months before her death, fearing something was wrong.

“We thought there was going to be an accident there,” the New York Post quoted him as telling TMZ.com.

Apparently, another pharmacy has come up with names Murphy used as aliases, which include “Kathelyn Moore” and “Faith Gosselin.”

Meanwhile, Monjack admitted using aliases but claimed the family had themselves stopped going to Eddie”s Pharmacy.

He said: “You know how this town is. We”re the ones who cut Eddie”s Pharmacy off.”

Murphy had been found lying dead in her LA home on Dec. 21 last year.

(ANI)

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Popular stomach acid reducer ups patients’ risk of developing pneumonia threefold

September 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, September 15 (ANI): Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have found that a popular stomach-acid reducer, which is used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients who need breathing machine support, triples the likelihood of contracting pneumonia among such patients.

Hospital-acquired pneumonia-the leading cause of infection-related deaths in critically ill patients-increases hospital stays by an average of seven to nine days, cost of care, and the risk of other complications.

“As best we can tell, patients who develop hospital-acquired pneumonia or ventilator-acquired pneumonia have about a 20 to 30 percent chance of dying from that pneumonia. It’s a significant event,” said senior study author Dr. David L. Bowton, professor and head of the Section on Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology.

During the study, the researchers compared treatment with two drugs that decrease stomach acid: ranitidine, marketed under the name ZantacTM, and pantoprazole, marketed under the name ProtonixTM or PrilosecTM.

Both drugs decrease stomach acid, but the newer pantoprazole is considered more powerful, and has become the drug of choice in many hospitals.

However, upon the analysis of 834 patient charts, the researchers came to the conclusion that the risk of developing pneumonia was thee times more in the hospitalised cardiothoracic surgery patients who had been treated with pantoprazole.

“We conducted this study, in part, because we thought we were seeing more pneumonias than we were used to having,” said study co-author Marc G. Reichert, pharmacy coordinator for surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

The researchers say that their study suggests some other steps to keep critically ill patients from developing ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Bowton suggests that doctors consider whether an acid reducer is needed at all, and, in cases where it is needed, ranitidine is recommended because of the apparent decreased risk in developing pneumonia.

Doctors should stop using the drug as soon as the risk of bleeding passes – once the patient is off the breathing machine and eating, either on his/her own or through a feeding tube.

“Stopping the drugs earlier appears to be the best thing for patients,” Reichert said.

The study has been published in a recent issue of CHEST. (ANI)

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Government to scrap all health regulatory bodies

August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has decided to scrap all health regulatory bodies, including the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India, Pharmacy Council and the Nursing Council.

There will instead be a single regulatory body-the National Council for Human Resources in Health, which will oversee seven departments related to medicine, nursing, dentistry, rehabilitation and physiotherapy, pharmacy, public health/hospital management and allied health sciences.

However, the move needs a formal government notification.

Sources have claimed that medical education today is dictated by bank balance and caste.

The existing councils, besides being unwieldy, have failed to provide a synergistic approach and there is an urgent need for innovation in health-related education.

Sources said the task force report has been discussed with the Prime Minister on August 26, 2009, which state, “Professional councils such as the MCI/ Nursing and Pharmacy Councils have been set up to regulate the practice of their respective professions, including education.

However, it also says that many of these councils have drawn criticism from all sections of society and got judicial censure on several occasions.”

This action comes barely two months after a private television channel exposed private medical schools in Tamil Nadu charging students huge capitation fees.

The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry has since initiated action against the erring colleges. The state government has issued showcause notices to both the private medical colleges after the scam came to light. (ANI)

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MJ death probe: Police raid his regular Beverly Hills pharmacy

August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Aug 22 (ANI): Cops have raided a pharmacy in Beverly Hills, where Michael Jackson was a regular, searching for any evidence of “improper dispensing of controlled substances”.

Jackson is believed to have received Demerol from Mickey Fine pharmacy, reports The Sun.

Dr Arnold Klein and other doctors who attended to Jackson also used the store frequently.

Meanwhile, a court has ruled that a case against the king of pop over a family reunion will still go on.

AllGood Entertainment had filed the lawsuit worth 24 million pounds but the company will have to sue Jackson’s estate now.

The firm claims he had agreed not to do any gigs before next July’s show – and broke the deal by planning 50 concerts at London’s 02. The trial is set for October 2010.

Meanwhile, Jackson’s burial has been postponed five days so that his family can “get things in order”. (ANI)

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‘Indestructible’ plastics decompose quickly to toxify world’s oceans

August 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, August 20 (ANI): A new study has determined that plastics, which are reputed to be virtually indestructible, decompose with surprising speed and release potentially toxic substances into the water.

This is the first study to look at what happens over the years to the billions of pounds of plastic waste floating in the world’s oceans.

Scientists always believed that plastics in the oceans were unsightly, but a hazard mainly to marine animals that eat or become ensnared in plastic objects.

“Plastics in daily use are generally assumed to be quite stable,” said study lead researcher Katsuhiko Saido.

“We found that plastic in the ocean actually decomposes as it is exposed to the rain and sun and other environmental conditions, giving rise to yet another source of global contamination that will continue into the future,” he said.

He said that polystyrene begins to decompose within one year, releasing components that are detectable in the parts-per-million range.

Those chemicals also decompose in the open water and inside marine life.

However, the volume of plastics in the ocean is increasing, so that decomposition products remain a potential problem.

According to Saido, a chemist with the College of Pharmacy, Nihon University, Chiba, Japan, his team found that when plastic decomposes, it releases potentially toxic bisphenol A (BPA) and PS oligomer into the water, causing additional pollution.

Plastics usually do not break down in an animal’s body after being eaten. However, the substances released from decomposing plastic are absorbed and could have adverse effects.

BPA and PS oligomer are sources of concern because they can disrupt the functioning of hormones in animals and can seriously affect reproductive systems.

Some studies suggest that low-level exposure to BPA released from certain plastic containers and the linings of cans may have adverse health effects.

Saido described a new method to simulate the breakdown of plastic products at low temperatures, such as those found in the oceans.

The process involves modeling plastic decomposition at room temperature, removing heat from the plastic and then using a liquid to extract the BPA and PS oligomer.

Typically, styrofoam is crushed into pieces in the ocean and finding these is no problem, he said.

But, when the study team was able to degrade the plastic, it discovered that three new compounds not found in nature formed, which are highly toxic. (ANI)

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Scientists identify how meningitis bacteria invade the brain

August 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Scientists in the U.S. have discovered that a specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis.

The new finding may lead to the development of improved vaccines to protect those most vulnerable, including young infants and the elderly.

“Streptococcus pneumoniae, commonly known as pneumococcus, is responsible for half the cases of bacterial meningitis in humans,” said the study’s senior author, Victor Nizet, MD, professor of paediatrics and pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego’s School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Meningitis develops when bacteria penetrate the “blood-brain barrier.”

The blood-brain barrier, comprised of a single layer of highly specialized microvascular endothelial cells, prevents most large molecules from entering into the cerebrospinal fluid, preserving an optimal biochemical environment for brain function.

The research team examined the functions of a protein known as NanA in order to discover how an entire bacterium can breech the blood-brain barrier and gain access to the central nervous system.

NanA is produced by all strains of pneumococcus and displayed prominently on the bacteria’s outer surface.

Through genetic manipulations, the researchers were able to remove the entire NanA protein, or just specific sections of the molecule, from the pathogen.

They found that while normal pneumococci were able to bind, enter and penetrate through human brain microvascular endothelial cells, mutant bacteria lacking the NanA protein -or those expressing only a truncated version of the protein – largely lost these abilities.

Conversely, when the full-length pneumococcal NanA protein was cloned and expressed on the surface of a nonpathogenic laboratory strain, the transformed bacteria gained the ability to bind and enter the same endothelial cells.

Satoshi Uchiyama, MD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Nizet Laboratory and lead author on the study, said: “Our tissue culture studies showed that the NanA protein was both necessary and sufficient for bacterial penetration of the blood brain barrier endothelial cells.”

“After infecting mice intravenously, we also found that far fewer NanA-deficient bacteria left the bloodstream and entered the brain, in comparison to mice infected with the normal pneumococcus,” Uchiyama added.

NanA is best known as an enzyme that cleaves and releases the sugar molecule known as sialic acid, which is present in abundance on the surface of all human cells.

While this enzymatic activity played a small part in promoting NanA-mediated blood-brain barrier interactions, a much stronger role was identified for the outer tip of the protein.

This tip seems to directly attach to the brain microvascular endothelial cells and then stimulate them to take in the pneumococcus.

According to Nizet, because NanA is expressed on the surface of all pneumococcal strains, it is an attractive candidate to include in a universal protein-based vaccine against pneumococcal infection.

The study is available online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. (ANI)

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Online prescription drug purchase may endanger your health, warns expert

July 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, July 12 (ANI): An expert at The University of Texas at Austin warns that prescription drugs’ purchase via the Internet, though more convenient, may endanger the buyer’s health.

“There’s a big problem with rogue Web sites,” says Dr. Marv Shepherd, the Klinck Centennial Professor in the College of Pharmacy and director of the Center for Pharmoeconomic Studies at the university.

“It’s very difficult to determine whether a Web site represents an authentic pharmacy or a counterfeit drug pharmacy. You can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys,” adds Shepherd, whose research and expertise on drug importation and drug counterfeiting has been featured on CNN, NPR and in Newsweek, Time, U.S. News and World Report, the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today, among others.

Shepherd reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) surveyed Canadian pharmacy Web sites, and found 11,000 Web sites claiming to be Canadian sites selling pharmaceuticals.

However, according to the researcher, closer analysis revealed that only 214 pharmacies in Canada sell pharmaceuticals over the Web.

As regards the other 10,000-plus sites, he said that they included website in Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Mexico and even Washington State.

He warned that consumer ordering pharmaceuticals from them might receive counterfeit drugs with incorrect dosage, false labeling, no pharmaceutical benefit or worse.

“For many counterfeit products, it is difficult to distinguish the genuine product from the counterfeit product without a forensic test. They may have the brand name on them, but they aren’t the brand name product,” Shepherd says.

He says that people can avoid the risk by confirming if a pharmacy is licensed in the state, by checking the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) for links to their state board.

He says that people can also look for the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites seal on the site. By clicking on the seal, he adds, a visitor is linked to a site where information about the pharmacy is maintained by the NABP. (ANI)

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Panama may hold cures to cancer, malaria and dengue fever

July 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, July 11 (ANI): A team of scientists is exploring the length and breadth of Panama in search of exotic molecules that could one day lead to new treatments for human diseases like cancer, malaria and dengue fever.

The team is being led by William Gerwick from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC (University of California) San Diego.

It was at the island of Coiba off Panama’s Pacific coast, where in June 2004, Kerry McPhail, then a postdoctoral scientist working with Gerwick, discovered a cyanobacterium in shallow water, a primitive photosynthetic organism with features unlike any previously encountered by scientists.

Laboratory analysis and testing revealed that the organism naturally produces a potent cancer-fighting compound.

“To the full extent that we can tell, the compound is working by a novel mechanism to kill cancer cells,” said Gerwick, a scientist with the Scripps Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine and the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“It has a very unusual molecular structure unlike any we’ve seen before,” he added.

Panama’s location as a bridge between North and South America and a natural thoroughfare for a diverse assortment of migratory land and water species gives it a unique appeal to scientists.

“Despite the fact that we all know Panama because of its famous canal, I have been struck by how remote and primitive and relatively unspoiled large stretches of Panama remain today,” said Gerwick.

Lena Gerwick, a biologist and fellow Scripps researcher, believes that in addition to cancer, the Panamanian environment could be holding biomedically promising sources for treating malaria and tropical diseases such as Chagas’ disease, leishmaniasis, and dengue fever.

Such diseases have been labeled as “neglected” afflictions because they impact millions of people, but have been largely forgotten by the developed world and pharmaceutical companies due to the anticipation of poor returns, and thus few resources are made available to find new treatments for these diseases.

“If you have a lot of diverse organisms, as you find in the tropics, they produce a large diversity of natural products,” said Lena Gerwick.

“There is high competition for every species to carve out its own niche and survive. With that you find a lot of compounds used in defense and other diverse activities. Within this biodiversity might be the next cure for malaria or the next cure for tuberculosis, so there is a great need to conserve it,” she added. (ANI)

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Counseling details for Orissa Joint Entrance Examination 2009 (Orissa JEE 2009) have been published on Orissa JEE Website. The details are available for Ex Service Men, MBA, MCA, Engineering, Pharmacy and Medical Courses.

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Engineering/Pharmacy/Medical Counseling starts on July 14, 2009.

MBA/MCA counseling starts on August 16,2009.

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Parkinson’s medications may help treat extreme drug-resistant TB

July 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Two drugs that are commonly used to treat Parkinson’s disease have been found to be effective in treating extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego.

They have discovered that the two commercially available drugs, entacapone and tolcapone, have the potential to treat multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.

“We have computational, and experimental data to support this repositioning,” said Dr Philip E. Bourne, professor of pharmacology at UCSD’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the principle investigator on the project.

“What is exciting about this finding is that the TB target, enzyme InhA, is already well known. But existing drugs are highly toxic and of completely different chemical structure than entacapone and tolcapone.

“Here we have drugs that are known to be safe and with suitable binding properties which can be further optimized to treat a completely different condition,” he added.

While working with the TB bacterium itself, they found that the active component in Comtan tablets (entacapone) is effective at inhibiting M.tuberculosis in concentrations well below a level that is toxic to cells.

“Although we have demonstrated in the lab that Comtan is active against M.tuberculosis, additional studies are required in order to transform it into an anti-tubercular therapeutic,” said Sarah L. Kinnings, a graduate student and lead author on the study.

“Given the continuing emergence of M.tuberculosis strains that are resistant to all existing, affordable drug treatments, the development of novel, effective and inexpensive drugs is an urgent priority,” she added.

The study appears in PLoS Computional Biology. (ANI)

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July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Haryana HSCS Results – HSCS Results 2009 – HSCS DET & DET (L) Results 2009 – www.hscs.in

Haryana State Counseling Society (HSCS), under Department of Technical Education (DTE), Govt of Haryana conducted Entrance Test for admission into polytechnics for Diploma Courses in Engineering, Pharmacy and Management for the year 2009 – 2010.

These Results are available on HSCS Website – http://www.hscs.in/

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Haryana State Counseling Society (HSCS), under Department of Technical Education (DTE), Govt of Haryana conducted Entrance Test for admission into polytechnics for Diploma in Engineering, Diploma in Pharmacy and Diploma in Management.

These Results are available on HSCS Website – http://www.hscs.in/

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Prescription drugs’ role in Jacko’s death being probed

June 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, June 28 (ANI): Investigators probing into the cause of Michael Jackson’s death are trying to determine whether or not prescription drugs may have played a role.

The L.A. coroner says that it will take weeks to confirm the cause of death.

However, still, some newspapers have cited unnamed sources and declared that the Thriller’ star took a daily cocktail of narcotics, including Demerol, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Zanax and Paxil.

A pharmacy in Beverly Hills sued Jackson two years ago, claiming the entertainer owed more than $100,000 for prescription drugs.

J. Randy Taraborelli, a biographer, said that family and friends concerned for years.

“It’s been a long, ongoing problem,” CBS News quoted Taraborelli as saying.

The online report says that cops want to interrogate Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal doctor, about the singer’s drug use.

Dr. Murry was with Jackson when the singer collapsed, and he is the doctor mentioned in the 911 call. (ANI)

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Novel genetic regulator involved in head, throat cancers discovered

May 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 29 (ANI): In a major scientific advancement, pharmacy researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a genetic regulator, called CTIP2, which is expressed at higher levels in the most aggressive types of head and neck cancers.

The study might help in the identification of these cancers earlier or even offer a new therapy at some point in the future.

In a recent research, the “transcriptional regulator” CTIP2 was demonstrated to be a master regulator that has important roles in many biological functions, ranging from the proper development of enamel on teeth to skin formation and the possible treatment of eczema or psoriasis.

But, in the latest study, scientists found for the first time that levels of CTIP2 were more than five times higher in the “poorly differentiated” tumour cells that caused the most deadly types of squamous cell carcinomas in the larynx, throat, tongue and other parts of the head.

The researchers even found a high correlation between greater CTIP2 expression and the aggressive nature of the cancer.

They said that head and neck squamous cell cancers are the sixth most common cancers in the world, and a significant cause of mortality. They have been linked to such things as tobacco use and alcohol consumption.

“Serious head and throat cancer is pretty common, and mortality rates from it haven’t improved much in 20 years, despite new types of treatments. With these new findings, we believe it should be possible to create an early screening and diagnostic tool to spot these cancers earlier, tell physicians which ones need the most aggressive treatments and which are most apt to recur,” said Gitali Indra, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.

The scientists hope that the work could lead to new therapeutic approaches.

Also they said that this genetic regulator could be involved in both skin development and these types of cancer makes some sense, as both originate from epithelial cells.

The study speculated that CTIP2 could help regulate the growth of what is believed to be a cancer “stem” or “progenitor” cell, which has a greater potential to generate tumours through the stem cell processes of self-renewal and differentiation into multiple cell types.

Therefore, targeting cancer stem cells holds promise for improvement of survival and quality of life of cancer patients.

The study is published in PLoS ONE a professional journal. (ANI)

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Brit women have ‘fat age’ of 92 at 50

May 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Apr 28 (ANI): The growing appetite of British women has made them to eat away 92 years’ worth of fat by the age of 50, finds a new research.

However, men of the same age have a fat age of 71.

The study showed that those aged 40, the average woman has eaten 66 years’ worth of fat, compared to 50 for men.he alarming results have raised concerns, as the increasing fat age could be an indication for future problems.

The daily-recommended limit of fat consumption is 30g for men and 20g for women.

For the study, high street chain Lloyds Pharmacy has developed a calculator based on common daily diets so people can work out if they have a fat age higher than their real one.

It asks people about their daily consumption of various types of food including eggs and cheese and chicken as well as biscuits and sweets.

The calculator is later used to work out how much fat, in particular saturated fat, is eaten per day compared to recommended levels.

Most people with a high fat age are likely to be overweight, and are more likely to have eaten too much cake and chocolate.

Both men and women aged 30 would have a fat age of 36, but by the time they reach 60, men have a fat age of only 86, compared to 112 for women.

“It used to be said that life begins at 40 but these statistics suggest that for many of us it could be the beginning of years of health problems,” the Telegraph quoted Andy Murdock, Lloyds’ director, as saying.

“By letting people see how ‘old’ they are in terms of fat consumption, we hope to be able provide the impetus some people need to take charge of their weight,” he added. (ANI)

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