Public Health
The controversy surrounding prescription drug advertising is immense. Advocates for prescription drug direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) claim that it educates consumers, improves the quality of care and contributes to better patient adherence. While opponents argue that it leads to inappropriate prescribing and portrays non-medical problems as treatable medical illnesses.
Thanks to a new paper calling for stricter federal regulation of DTCA, the policy debate over the practice is certain to intensify even more. Soon to appear in the American Journal of Public Health, the study…
Please visit this site, and watch a ten seconds video which is very aggressive in its crude substance: during the time you watch it, two children die of hunger.
There are in the world today a billion human beings who have insufficient means to sustain themselves, their families, their children. This is so intolerable that we use to remove it from our brain. Can you imagine your child dying of hunger as you watch powerless ?
One, two, three, four, five. If we gave names, faces, stories to these children who die in silence while we trash half of our oversized meal, while we burn gas to get…
Bioprocess engineering
The large scale plant cell and tissue cultures have been
considered as an alternative source of biochemicals over the
last 40 years. Routien and Nickel received the first patent
for the cultivation of plant tissue in 1956 [1] and suggested
its potential for the production of secondary metabolites
[2]. Shortly after that time, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) started to support research
of plant cell cultures for regenerative life support systems.
Since early 1960s, experiments with plants and plant tissue
cultures were performed under various…
Metabolism in Plant tissue cultures and its industrial applications in the era of genetic manipulations.
Humans have been manipulating the genetic makeup of agricultural plants (and animals) for millennia. Recently, the pace of change has increased markedly as researchers apply molecular tools to modify a wide range of agronomic characteristics and to develop
and market transgenic crops that generate specific novel products (ap Rees,
1995). Among many others, these include vaccines and other pharmaceuticals, plastics, and proteins that may render certain plants effective tools for…
Predicted growth in world population is posing a serious challenge to crop production and food security, particularly in developing countries. The augmentation of conventional breeding with the use of marker-assisted selection and transgenic plants promises to facilitate substantial increases in food production. However, knowledge of the physiology and biochemistry of plants is extremely important for interpreting the information from molecular markers and deriving new and more effective paradigms in plant breeding Bourgaud et al (2001). Secondary metabolites are currently being…
Biodegradation of phenol by oxygenase producing thermophilic microorganisms
Neetika Mathur1*, Vinod Kumar Nigam2, Ashwani Kumar1 and Purnendu ghosh2
1 Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan- 302 004
2 Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, Rajasthan-302 001
Abstract:
Screening and characterization of phenol degrading bacterial isolates from the soils and sewage samples of desert regions of Rajasthan was performed under batch cultivation. The degradation studies were monitored by the consumption of NADH and it was found that maximum…
Scientific Name Rhododendron anthopogon D. Don
Family Ericaceae
Used Part Stem, leaves, and buds.
Distribution Area It is a small, aromatic, shrubby plant found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Bhutan and the N.E.F.A. hills at altitudes of 3,000-5,300 m.
Common Uses . The leaves are aromatic, their smoke is considered useful in some diseases. They are supposed to have stimulant properties. The leaves are administered as an errhine to produce sneezing.This is one of species which is thought by the Bhutias to excite the headache and nausea which attend ascents to the high elevations of…
Scientific Name Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth.( C. cajan (Linn.) Millsp. syn.C. indicus Spreng.)
Family Fabaceae
Used Part Seeds
Distribution Area Cultivated nearly throughout India up to an altitude of 1,800 m in the Himalayas.
Common Uses . The seed is acrid; astringent to the bowels, anthelmintic, restores lost taste, cures leprosy, "Vata" and "kapha" ulcers of the mouth, tumors, bronchitis, vomiting, heart diseases, piles, cough biliousness, "tridosha"; improves complexion; causes flatulence (Ayurveda). The seeds have good taste indigestible, cause constipation, griping, biliousness,…
If rehospitalization is considered when grading health care, America's system is not all it is cracked up to be. Proof? New evidence indicates almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report today in Circulation: Heart Failure.
Each year, from 2004 through 2006, more than a half million Medicare recipients over age 65 went to the hospital for heart failure and were discharged alive. And each year, about 23 percent returned to the hospital within 30 days – signaling a need to improve care, researchers…
This week, scientists from Australia and the UK are taking a break from their professional research to wave their fists angrily at the alcohol industry. In hopes of reducing alcohol abuse, they are calling for a new approach to the debate over whether alcohol industry sponsorship of sports increases drinking among sports participants. They want to shift the burden of proof to the alcohol industry.
The debate over sports sponsorship saw renewed activity last year when the findings of a 2008 New Zealand study among sports participants showed that those who received alcohol industry…