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Breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV
Washington, May 23 (IANS) Antibodies isolated from infected mothers' breast milk can inhibit the virus that causes AIDS, says a new discovery. HIV-1 can be transmitted from mother to child via breastfeeding, posing a challenge for safe infant feeding practices in areas of high HIV-1 prevalence. But only one in 10 HIV-infected nursing mothers is known to pass the virus to their infants. "That

Breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV
Breast milk may hold key to developing vaccine for HIV.

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HBL to launch six animal vaccines for large animals
Ahmedabad-based Hester Biosciences Limited (HBL) will commercially launch as many as half a dozen vaccines for large animals within six months.

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Frost & Sullivan to Recognize the Industry Once Again at India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2012 Nominations Open Last Date for Entry: 21 June 2012
The size of the Indian healthcare market is abysmally small when compared with similar and dissimilar economies. The per capita spend on healthcare in India is three times lower than China and 150 times lower than the United States of America. Our healthcare model ranks very low on certain parameters, namely health expenditure as percentage of GDP, per capita spending on healthcare, doctor–population and hospital bed-population ratio and infant and maternal mortality ratio. Analysis reveals that the existing system is heavily skewed in favor of the urban population. This has led to a peculiar situation with the majority of health services being centralized in urban areas where only 22-25 percent of the population resides.

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HLL Lifecare floats subsidiary for vaccine complex
Kerala-based HLL Lifecare, a mini-ratna PSU, has floated wholly-owned subsidiary HLL Biotechltd to execute the Rs.594 crore Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) coming up in Tamil Nadu.

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Vt. debates letting parents say no to vaccines

For Jennifer Stella, it's a question of informed consent. Her son had a seizure after getting childhood vaccinations and her daughter suffered a "head-to-toe" eczema outbreak; she says parents

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