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UBM India is all set to host the 3rd Annual India Pharma Awards scheduled on 30th November, 2015 at ITC Maratha, Mumbai and pleased to announce TAKE Solutions as our presenting partner. The event is more than an ‘Award Night’ and it will bring together the luminaries of the Pharmaceutical Industry combined with a night of glamour, entertainment, jubilation and the pride of being the crème de la crème of the Indian Pharmaceutical sector.

Children of poverty stricken families suffer lags in brain development and score as much as 20 per cent lower on cognitive tests, a new study has found. Low-income children had atypical structural brain development and lower standardised test scores, with as much as an estimated 20 per cent in the achievement gap explained by development lags in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, researchers said. Socioeconomic disparities in school readiness and academic performance are well documented but little is known about the mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the biggest causes of preventable blindness among Indian adults, doctors said. Calling diabetes an uncontrolled disease in India with 65 million cases, the doctors say that at least 40 percent of the severe diabetics will suffer from diabetic retinopathy if steps are not taken to control it.

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It may appear counterintuitive but including a little bit of sweets in your meal could help you stop gaining unhealthy weight, new research suggests.

An experimental drug aimed at combating Alzheimer's disease has a host of unexpected anti-ageing effects in animals, a new study says. To combat the disease, the drug targets Alzheimer's major risk factor - old age.

If you are a diabetic, having diets rich in potassium may help you protect the heart and kidney health, says a new study. Individuals with Type-2 diabetes are at increased risk of developing kidney failure and heart disease.

If you are asthmatic, reducing anxiety can help you better manage the respiratory condition, new research has found. The findings suggest that when people with high level of anxiety also have asthma, their suffering can be far more debilitating and dangerous, because they have difficulty managing their asthma.

The Indian Pharmaceutical Association's West Bengal chapter on Thursday urged the union health ministry to take steps to limit the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in livestock in the wake of increasing antibiotic resistance in India.

West Bengal's drug controller has sounded an alarm on the indiscriminate use of pregnancy hormone oxytocin in dairying, which could lead to major hormonal imbalance in humans, an official said on Thursday.

A new drug can help patients with blood cancers who are resistant to current chemotherapy lead a normal and active life, show results of an international clinical trial, a first-in-man study of the drug.