Nepal Special

Januvia- 1st line now for DM

2007-10-20T01:55:00.000-07:00

The Wall Street Journal (10/18, D6, Rubenstein) reports that the FDA approved Merck & Co.'s request to expand their diabetes drug Januvia (sitagliptin) "to be used as initial therapy along with a popular diabetes drug called metformin, as an add-on for patients who have tried a type of drug called a sulfonylurea, and as an add-on to a combination of both a sulfonylurea and metformin." However, "

HPV test more accurate than Pap smear

2007-10-20T01:50:00.000-07:00

"Doctors are telling us tonight [that] a new test could replace the Pap smear for detecting cervical cancer." "A test to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) -- which causes most cervical cancers -- was far better than the standard Pap smear at catching malignancies," according to two new studies published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. HealthDay continues, "Pap tests

Playing with iPhone

2007-10-17T11:31:00.001-07:00

17-year-old George Hotz's much-publicized hacking of the iPhone involved ripping open his $600 device and diving in with a soldering iron--not a technique for the faint of heart. But new tools are emerging that promise to make unlocking the iPhone for use on mobile networks other than AT&T's as easy as downloading and running a simple piece of software. The iPhone Dev Team, an international

GERD

2007-10-17T10:14:00.001-07:00

Persistent cough, chest pain may be symptoms of GERD, "Severe chest pain and persistent cough" could be "serious manifestations of acid reflux," according to two studies presented at the 72nd American College of Gastroenterology annual scientific meeting in Philadelphia. One study, which included 31 patients who went to the emergency room "complaining of serious chest pain," showed that "[a]

American Dream vs Doom

2007-10-17T10:14:00.000-07:00

Three years ago, Colorado truck driver Roger Rodriguez was in the market for a new mortgage loan. With radio and Internet ads trumpeting easy approvals, he picked up the phone.That call set into motion Mr. Rodriguez's descent into the subprime mortgage mess. Over the next several months, his adjustable-rate loan passed through many hands. These included a local Denver broker, Livingston, N.J.,

Doing Business

2007-10-16T01:08:00.000-07:00

It's one thing to learn how to crunch numbers for an investment bank, quite another to start the next Microsoft, Google or even a decent restaurant.Small businesses account for a little over half the output of the U.S. economy. If trade and productivity are an economy's twin engines of growth, entrepreneurship is the rocket fuel. The big question: Where will the next generation of entrepreneurs

Business Students

2007-10-16T00:29:00.000-07:00

The spirit of Gordon Gekko is alive in the halls of academia.The accomplished and the aspiring in business from all walks embark on a masters of business administration program with at least one commonality--an appetite for financial success. Among the more popular draws to the business world is Wall Street. When people think the markets, they see dollar signs; and increasingly MBA programs

Pfizer partners with Physicians'

2007-10-15T10:09:00.002-07:00

Pfizer partners with physicians' online forum. "A year-old online forum where 30,000 doctors swap medical observations has lined up a partnership with Pfizer Inc." However, this "alliance...runs counter to the site's founding ideal to give doctors a place to communicate without the pharmaceutical industry listening in." Pfizer and Sermo, Inc. will "work with...[Sermo's] participating doctors

Blood test for Alzheimer's

2007-10-15T10:09:00.001-07:00

Blood test may diagnose Alzheimer's, study suggests. "There is important news to report tonight in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Researchers are reporting major progress toward a simple blood test that could detect the disease earlier than ever before." According to findings published in the journal Nature Medicine, "doctors may be able to predict if mild memory loss is a warning sign

Levels of Lead in Lipsticks

2007-10-15T10:09:00.000-07:00

FDA will investigate claim that some lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead. It would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead." The agency is proceeding cautiously because "[s]imilar claims in the past have not been confirmed."According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, "a third of the 33 red lipsticks

Raltegravir (Isentress) for MDR- HIV

2007-10-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

This drug looks more potent than virtually anything we have ever seen....FDA approves Isentress to treat multi-drug-resistant HIV. Isentress (raltegravir) is a twice-daily tablets as a treatment for patients who have strains of the HIV virus resistant to multiple antiretroviral drugs.Isentress is the first of a new class of antiretroviral drugs called integrase inhibitors, which work to prevent

Selling $23 Billion Company

2007-10-14T11:51:00.001-07:00

Biogen Idec Inc., is said to be evaluating a possible sale of the company. Biogen is a leading maker of multiple-sclerosis drugs and a sale would be one of the biggest in the biotechnology sector. Shares of the Cambridge, Mass., company traded at $69.43, up 3.4%, in 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading Friday and after the company's announcement jumped to $81.60 in after-hours

Dillema of Brain and Neurons

2007-10-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

Agony Of a Brain in an Struggles 2b FairAt Children's Home in Uganda, the orphans had no idea that a woman inside a brain scanner 9,400 miles away was playing mind games with their food.The children were the focus of a brain experiment under way at the California Institute of Technology to explore the neural anatomy of indecision. With the push of a button, the woman in the Caltech scanner could

Multi-Millionaires and Multi-Billionaires

2007-10-14T11:35:00.000-07:00

Well, for some of us , the mission in our life is to be multimillionaires or billionaires. But it does not end there. Once we become one we will have another mission. Then we start writing our mission statement all over again. Is that still us?Mission statements are moving from the boardroom to the family room.A growing number of multimillionaires and billionaires, hoping to stave off costly

Dream Jobs and the others

2007-10-14T11:17:00.002-07:00

Health care, education and financial services--if you're looking for work in the coming decades, these are the fields to get into. What to avoid? The usual suspects. According to the projections by the U.S. government, manufacturing jobs are expected to decline by more than 5% by 2014 as production moves overseas. Same goes for textile workers, such as sewing machine operators, who will see a 36%

$100 Billion Master LEC to save USA & the World from the Crisis

2007-10-14T11:17:00.001-07:00

The global credit crisis is now obvious esp in USA and Europe, Citigroup Inc. and other big banks are discussing a plan to pool together and financially back as much as $100 billion in shaky mortgage securities and other investments. The new fund is designed to stave off what Citigroup and others see as a threat to the financial markets world-wide: the danger that dozens of huge

Will US attack Iran ?

2007-10-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

People say, "In War, Nobody Wins". Well who won the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein lost his life and George Bush lost US economy. In war people die just like that. Having no war is beneficial because it can save so many people who would have died in the war, is not this an interesting thought? So let's have no war at least to save those people who will be dying if there is war, it could be a huge

Filthy Rich US Colleges: Are they looting someone?

2007-10-14T10:35:00.001-07:00

Colleges' Investments Net Good Returns, As Well As Questions About Why Costs Are Rising TooColleges and universities raked in money by the billions last year. But their investing success now has a price -- a movement in Congress to force the wealthiest schools to spend more of their money to keep down tuition.In recent weeks, a string of colleges and universities have announced enviable

Professionals: Victims of Depression

2007-10-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Personal Care,Restaurant Industries,Diaper ChangersHave Highest Rates of DepressionIn US, people who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression.Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of

Nobel Prize in chemistry

2007-10-13T10:35:00.000-07:00

Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to understanding questions like why the ozone layer is thinning.Ertl's research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells work, how catalytic converters clean up car exhaust and even why even why iron rusts,

World's Most Global Universities

2007-10-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

People in Nepal are in constant threat of political chaos due to unstable governement , hence students here are always looking for an opportunity overseas and this is understandable. In the huge ocean of Universities around the world, it is very difficult to know where to go, here is a list which should help to some extent the prospective students.In response to the same forces that have

The World is worth...How Much?

2007-10-13T05:18:00.000-07:00

Global wealth increased 7.5% last year to $97.7 trillion, according to Boston Consulting Group. And of the 9.6 million households globally with more than $1 million in assets, 49% of them lived in North America.Now brokerages, banks, fund companies, and money advisers are climbing over each other for the business. Managing money for extremely rich Americans--those with $10 million or more in

Oil ; Stocks; and US Economy

2007-10-12T03:03:00.000-07:00

From the Fed to the top business periodicals, analysts are trying to unravel the underlying explanation for an economy pushing past a Dow 14,000 with oil in the $80 per barrel range. Conventional energy-economic wisdom had it that the latter would kill the former.Remember the Clinton/Gore energy tax proposed in 1993? It would have added a paltry few bucks, at most, to a barrel of oil that, at

Now USA is learning from Nepal

2007-10-12T02:56:00.001-07:00

Recently there was a big strike by Chrysler auto company staff and more are coming. Nepal is one country where strike is so common that people don't even care, there are 5-10 strikes almost everyday. With the dwinding dollar, is USA also becoming a copy cat of Nepal. Here is another story.Northern California nurses begin two-day walkout. "Nearly 5,000 registered nurses at 15 hospitals in

Learn from you doctors via vdo

2007-10-12T02:52:00.000-07:00

Physicians can now use YouTube videos to educate patients. Armed with data showing that 71 percent of U.S. adults have used the Web to research health information, Medem has announced a new service that enables doctors to embed YouTube-hosted videos into their iHealth practice Web sites. The videos can be used to educate patients, explain treatment plans or procedures and introduce their

Wealth and Charity

2007-10-09T11:44:00.000-07:00

Biomedical tragedy has ruined most of Nepal, making it world's one of the poorest nation. Tens of thousands of people here die of easily curable disease. What does Nepal need today, will nepal be able to utilize a portion of multibillion Gates Buffet foundation and become a top class nation in the world? Strategically situated between world's fasted growing economy of China and India and bosting

Nobel Prize in Medicine

2007-10-09T10:35:00.000-07:00

Three scientists win the Nobel Prize in medicine. The Nobel prize in medicine was announced on Monday. It will be shared by three scientists. They were cited for their work in manipulating the genes in mice, creating so-called designer mice which can help scientists study diseases in humans.""Two Americans and a Briton developed the immensely powerful 'knockout' technology, which allows

Pivo-2, your dream car???

2007-10-08T11:54:00.000-07:00

TOKYO (Reuters) - If you hate parallel parking and anything else that requires the reverse gear, Pivo 2 could be the one for you.Pivo 2 is a battery-powered concept car with a fully rotating cabin that makes going backwards obsolete, since the driver can turn to face the direction they need to go. Its wheels also turn 90 degrees, making parking easier."With this easy-to-handle car, you can feel

Who is this Super Genius ?

2007-10-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our

Read this exciting article from NEJM

2007-10-04T11:54:00.000-07:00

// var NTPT_PGEXTRA = ''; // var NTPT_PGREFTOP = false; // var NTPT_NOINITIALTAG = false; Geography Nepal Top of Page Location: Southern Asia, between China and India Geographic coordinates: 28 00 N, 84 00 E Map references: Asia Area: total: 147,181 sq km land: 143,181 sq kmwater: 4,000 sq km Area - comparative: slightly

Heath insurance: USA vs Nepal

2007-09-19T10:58:00.000-07:00

Health of the people in a nation is a very sensitive issue. Unfortunately in a country like Nepal where many people do not have enough to eat or afford a place to live, people here usually do not even dream about health insurance. Many people die young, even the crown prince of Nepal had his heart attack at the age of 36.Good news is that cost of health care is still not very expensive in Nepal

Good News for TB patients- only 4 months

2007-09-19T10:48:00.001-07:00

Tuberculosis still claims a vast number of people of Nepal especially in remote villages. Here is a good news for the people infected with TB. Moxifloxacin seem to work like another wonder drug for M. tuberculosis. Tuberculosis previously only the disease of poor and develping countries has now become prevalent in developed countries like USA, Europe too due to introduction of HIV/AIDS.New

Health: Best Hospitals in USA and Nepal

2007-09-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

While hospitals, health institutions and medical colleges are mushrooming in Nepal, they have not been formally ranked, some offer good services while many do poor job. This blog is intended to help create list of best hospitals and encourage free and fair competition among hospitals in Nepal esp because most people in Nepal live in village and they do not know which hospital to go.The recently

A Family Oasis

2007-09-19T04:25:00.000-07:00

You have a family and want to relocate. You want warm weather, endless recreation opportunities, a low crime rate, and an excellent school system. You're in luck because you can get all that and more in Orange County!The weather in Orange County is one of the major draws for new residents. Summers are moderately hot, and winter temperatures are extremely mild. Little precipitation visits the area

Maoists in Nepal- what are theydoing?

2007-09-19T04:23:00.001-07:00

The Maoists havewalked out of government and are now calling for street protests to obstruct polls. Why are they doing this? Is it to play the role of a political opposition by projecting itself as a party of change, to get elections postponed as they are afraid they would lose if not postponed,to show others how powerful they arebecause they have new agenda??? The self-absorption of the

TEQs: Vudu & Bittorrent- what are they?

2007-09-19T04:23:00.000-07:00

Vudu Would you buy VUDU, I guess you would if you are a movie lover. For Nepal it does not look too practical, because 5000 is too liitle, it needs movies from all the countries in the world, and there should be need for internet. Unlike USA and Europe and most other countries, fast internet is very expensive in Nepal.and most homes have no computers. Now you can check this article if you still

Alerts & Bewares

2007-09-19T04:13:00.000-07:00

Children's cough and cold medicines raise concerns among physicians. In continuing coverage from yesterday's briefing, the Wall Street Journal (10/2, B11, Mathews, Bernstein) reports, "Drugstore shelves are full of cough and cold medications marketed for babies and toddlers, but doctors are increasingly opposed to the medicines' use." Last week's safety reviews by the FDA "have added to the

Liabiities and claims

2007-09-19T04:11:00.000-07:00

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