The News Review:

- Rise in cervical cancer deaths alarms India
- Shekel climbs to 11-year high against dollar on growth
- Arthritis drug may help diabetes patients
- War zone trauma hits police in Victoria

Rise in cervical cancer deaths alarms India
Times of India – May 27, 2008
However ICMR wanted tointroduce it in the public sector only after conducting its own trial. We willprovide ICMR 2100 doses of the vaccine for free to conduct the trials. ” Dr B CDas director of ICP said that Clinical Research rganization Quintiles willhelp in conducting the trial. He said “The first year of the studywill solely look at the intra-muscular vaccine’s immunogenicity and see how goodis the immune response in humans against HPV after being injected with thevaccine. The Indian study will recruit both married and unmarried women. ICMR isalmost ready with the protocol and is also putting in place a data safetymonitoring board and an ethics committee. ” An ICMR official said “We felt thatif such a vaccine is available to women globally why shouldn’t India also useit? Three of our five cancer registries have shown cervical cancer to be themost common among women in India.

Shekel climbs to 11-year high against dollar on growth
Jerusalem Post – May 27, 2008
The company that develops treatment devices for neurological disorders signed an agreement with the US National Institute of Health to conduct clinical research on cocaine users. El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. El Al said it will put aside $20 million for a possible settlement with the US Justice Department which investigated whether Israel’s largest carrier coordinated air-cargo prices with other airlines.

Arthritis drug may help diabetes patients
Seattle Post Intelligencer – May 27, 2008
The study mentions three other studies showing the commonly used arthritis medication salsalate helps lower blood sugar and reduces inflammation. Allison Goldfine director of clinical research at Joslin and senior author of the report also was the lead researcher in a February study published in. As a result of the studies there are three large ongoing multi-center.

War zone trauma hits police in Victoria
NEWS.com.au – May 27, 2008
"The kind of trauma that produces post-traumatic stress disorder generally involves a threat to life witnessing a threat or the actual loss of life of others. So there are many matters in the line of routine police duty that are sufficiently traumatic. " Results of clinical research into the treatment of Victoria Police officers were discussed at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Congress in Melbourne. Assoc Prof Hopwood said 12-week programs of group therapy couples counselling and medication had reduced symptoms of depression anger and anxiety by a third for most officers. But while results compared favourable with the outcomes of treatment for war veterans police officers’ reliance on alcohol to self-medicate was something they’d been unable to overcome. Assoc Prof Hopwood said alcohol treatment might be needed for some officers before they tackled wider PTSD problems. Figures obtained by the Police Association yesterday reveal that in the 2007-08 financial year 40 Victoria Police officers were treated for PTSD up from 25 a year earlier.