When you visit a bank, you always see a sign reading 'Single window', meaning you can conduct your all banking operation just through that particular window. On the same lines, if things go as planned for Ahmedabad-based Amrita Therapeutics, a single drug can cure many disease. The company is working on multiple diseases targeting drug development, in which one drug will be able to cure diseases like cancer, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis with fewer side-effects and less cost.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) health department has came down heavily on doctors not adhering to norms of medical practice, including the system to dispose biomedical waste. The officials on Friday raided and sealed a total of 27 clinics in Rakhial, Rajpur, Amraiwadi, Bhaipura, Odhav, Vastral, Behrampura and Maninagar areas. It also sealed two warehouses for recycling medical wastes. Earlier on Thursday, the civic body had sealed 15 clinics, said an AMC official.

Despite the slump seen in most sectors, Bangalore’s health industry seems unaffected by the recession. On the contrary, there has been a steady increase in business.

Private hospitals are also coming forward with opportunities for health sector professionals. Narayana Hrudayalaya has recruited 29 doctors, 23 paramedical staff, and 34 administrative staff since July, 2008.

Beijing  - China's nominal parliament on Saturday approved a new food safety law designed to stem a recent tide of scandals over tainted food products.

The Standing Committee of the annual National People's Congress, which approves policies and laws proposed by the ruling Communist Party, said the new law would help ensure food safety "from the production line to dining table."

London, February 28 : An international group of American and British scientists have found that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has the ability to adapt to the body''s defence system, which suggests that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Oxford in England conducted a study that showed HIV adapts by spelling out at least
14 different "escape mutations" that help keep it alive after it interacts genetically with immunity molecules that normally attack the virus.

The researchers revealed that they analysed genetic data from more than 2,800 HIV-infected patients on five continents.

Recent study showed that fampridine, developed by Acorda Therapeutics Inc (ACOR. O) can help people with multiple sclerosis by improving their walk.