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- Two held for hiring women for clinical drug trials
- Secrets behind successful patient safety programs revealed
- Majority of consumers oppose wine in supermarkets, study reveals
- BU researcher plays key role in discovery of new type of neutrino oscillation
| Two held for hiring women for clinical drug trials Posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:20 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Two people working as brokers for a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company were Friday arrested in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district for engaging poor women for unauthorised drug trials, police said. Kommu Karunamma and Shaikh Jameela were arrested from Piduguralla town, about 300 km from here, after 20 women took ill following clinical trials. There are allegations that the company used poor and illiterate women as guinea pigs to test a drug to treat breast cancer. The brokers were hiring gullible women and taking them to Hyderabad where their blood samples were taken and they were given injections and tablets. They were being paid around Rs.3,000 to Rs.10,000 for the trials conducted during last three months. The issue came to light Thursday after some women, who had no idea what the company was testing on them, complained of severe body pain, joint pain and extreme weakness. A few of them had even difficulty walking. A local doctor told them they could have been tested for breast cancer drugs. Six of the affected women were admitted to a government hospital in Guntur. District Medical and Health Officer M. Gopi Naik, who rushed to Piduguralla, said action would be taken against the company if it was found flouting the rules. http://www.rxpgnews.com    |
| Secrets behind successful patient safety programs revealed Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) A team of social scientists and medical and nursing researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom has pinpointed how a programme, which ran in more than 100 hospital intensive care units in Michigan, dramatically reduced the rates of potentially deadly central line bloodstream infections to become one of the world's most successful patient safety programmes. Funded in part by the Health Foundation in the UK, the collaboration between researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Leicester and the University of Pennsylvania, has led to a deeper understanding of how patient safety initiatives like the Michigan programme can succeed. "Explaining Michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement programme" by Mary Dixon-Woods and Emma-Louise Aveling of the University of Leicester; Charles Bosk of the University of Pennsylvania and Christine Goeschel and Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University, is published in the June 2011 edition of Milbank Quarterly. "We knew this programme worked. It not only helped to eliminate infections, it also reduced patient deaths," said programme leader Peter Pronovost of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2008 and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, or 'genius grant,' from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "The challenge was to figure out how it worked". The researchers found that one of the Michigan programme's most important features is that it explicitly outlined what hospitals had to do to improve patient safety, while leaving specific requirements up to the hospital personnel. A critical aspect of the programme was convincing participants that there was a problem capable of being solved together. "It was achieved by a combination of story-telling about real-life tragedies of patients who came to unnecessary harm in hospital, and using... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Majority of consumers oppose wine in supermarkets, study reveals Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A survey of wine drinkers conducted by the University at Buffalo School of Management has found that 54 percent say they are opposed to a New York State proposal to sell wine in supermarkets. In a survey of more than 5,000 households, 42 percent of those opposing wine sales in supermarkets cited negative impact on small businesses as their reason for doing so. Other reasons included reduction of wine selection (19 percent), likely end of personalized services (15 percent), end of a unique shopping experience at specialty stores (11 percent), perceived unfairness of competition (8 percent), potential for abuse/unhealthy buying behavior due to wider availability (7 percent) and loss of jobs in a troubled economy (4 percent). Of those who support the proposal, 87 percent favored it for shopping convenience. Another 10 percent anticipated a decline in the price of wine, and 5 percent favored it because it promoted greater competition. Unlike other studies that have surveyed the general population, all of the participants in this study were actual consumers of wine, says Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research in the UB School of Management. According to the co-authors of the study, Jain, Ram Bezawada and Gary Pickering, survey participants included both men (38 percent) and women (62 percent) representing all age, income and education groups. Jain and Bezawada are co-directors of the school's Research Group in Integrated Marketing (RIM). Pickering is a professor of biological sciences and psychology/wine science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. In general, support for wine sales in grocery stores was greatest among the young, who are more pressed for time and favored convenience. Older households tended to oppose the selling wine in supermarkets. When asked how the availability of wine in supermarkets would impact how much wine they purchase, 70 percent of participants said they... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| BU researcher plays key role in discovery of new type of neutrino oscillation Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Boston University Professor of Physics Edward Kearns is among the team of researchers responsible for this discovery. Evidence of this new type of neutrino oscillation may lead the way to new studies of a matter/ anti-matter asymmetry called charge-parity (CP) violation. This phenomenon has been observed in quarks (for which Nobel prizes were awarded in 1980 and 2008), but never in neutrinos. CP violation in the early universe may be the reason that the observable universe today is dominated by matter and no significant anti-matter. If the T2K result does indicate this third oscillation, then a search for CP violation in neutrinos will be a major scientific quest in the coming years. Even though we have studied neutrino oscillations for years, there is still a great thrill in seeingthese six events. The neutrino beam technique that we use is working beautifully and theinterpretation is simple and direct. I can hardly wait to collect more data. It has been a privilegefor all of us at Boston University to participate in this series of experiments in Japan, and wegreatly appreciate the efforts at J-PARC and KEK to restart the T2K beam, says Kearns. Neutrinos come in three types, or flavors; electron, muon, and tau. In the T2K experiment in Japan, a muon neutrino beam was produced in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, called J-PARC, located in Tokai village, Ibaraki prefecture, on the east coast of Japan, and was aimed at the gigantic Super-Kamiokande underground detector in Kamioka, near the west coast of Japan, 295 km (185 miles) away from Tokai. An analysis of the detected neutrino-induced events in the Super-Kamiokande detector indicates that a very small number of muon neutrinos traveling from Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) transformed... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
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