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Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...bad-based company, has been charged with supplying expired blood test kits in West Bengal over a period of two years. Health workers fear that thousands of people across the state might have received contaminated blood, which was tested with kits whose expiry dates had been tampered with. Saha is known for...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...to be as many as 20,000 people. Its civilisation expired in the 18th century in a bloody sunset of internecine warfare and cannibalism after the trees which provided fuel and timber were all cut down. Prolonged drought wiped out the advanced Mayan civilisation at Tikal, in modern-day Mexico, around a tho...

FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Ambien for Insomnia

...ofi-Synthelabo, Inc.) patent for zolpidem tartrate expired on April 21, 2007. The FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) reviews and decides on approval of generic drug applications. Source: Generef.com SM...

More Fall Sick from Water Pollution in Tripura

...au, and said the unit's clearance certificates had expired long back. Twelve more people were taken ill Saturday after drinking water from a river contaminated by toxic industrial chemicals in Tripura. Source-IANS...

Russia Launches Five-Year Plan To Combat Diseases, Including TB, HIV/AIDS

...each funding goals for the previous program, which expired in 2006. Zurabov urged provinces to improve their performance. For the previous program, which ran from 2002 through 2006, allocations totaled roughly $750 million. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

...nths, during which follow-up medical histories and expired carbon monoxide levels were obtained. Patients who...uation period and who were confirmed by a negative expired carbon monoxide were classified as “abstinent.” Those patients who were confirmed as not smoking by ...

Parents Cautioned About Prescription Drug Abuse Of Their Children

...ed to keep track of their medicines and throw away expired ones immediately. This report also indicates that children are buying these drugs online. JYT...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

...ernment to renew a victims' compensation fund that expired in 2004 so that it can cover claims from people whose health symptoms developed years after the World Trade Center collapse. Bloomberg sums up his appeal in these words: Anything less and they (the federal government) would be turning their backs...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

...he government should find out if the vaccines have expired or the cold chain was broken during transportation," he added. Source-IANS...

Bhopal Gas Victims Get Spurious Drugs, Say Activists

.../to have seized a large number of sub-standard and expired drugs from two medical stores of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department. "A joint team of four organisations, working for the victims of the world's worst man-made industrial disaster, recovered many medicines that had crossed ...

Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims

... Ghyansham Sarda, one of the prime accused in the expired blood test kit scam, was Thursday arrested by the ... in West Bengal were earlier alerted against using expired blood test kits supplied by Monozyme India. Health workers fear that thousands of people in West B...

Accused Arrested in Blood Test Kit Scam

Kolkata: Ghanshyam Sarda, a prime accused in the expired blood test kit scam was arrested here Thursday, sa...based company that has been charged with supplying expired blood test kits in West Bengal over a period of two years. The scam was busted recently. All hospi...

Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina

...he clinic—some were retired doctors or nurses with expired licenses, while at least one impostor falsely claimed to be a doctor. The authors hope their experience—the successes as well as difficulties—will prove useful to other communities in preparing the medical response to future disasters. "With adequa...

Ranbaxy Signs Licensing, Supply Agreement for Canadian Market

...one, it said. The Canadian patent for Risperidone expired in July and Ran Risperidone is now available through pharmacies and wholesalers, it added. The company is the first Indian firm to market a licensed generic product in Canada. RPCI is a wholly owned subsidiary of the company and is engaged in the s...

Seven Dead in Maharashtra Due to Suspected Chikungunya

...// While four patients died in Akot, two and one expired at Telhara and Ghuser respectively, they said. Many others were believed to have been suffering from the disease. However, the health department has said that the patients were suffering from some viral fever and not chikungunya. The blood samples ...

No Link between Scuba Diving and Impaired Lung Function

...atory volume 1 (FEV1) or the maximum volume of air expired in 1 second. The study was conducted by Dr. Kay Tetzlaff and colleagues, from the University of Tuebingen, in all of the participants for at least three occasions over a period of at least 1 year. The average follow-up was 5 years. It was observed ...

Advantage India: Growth Pills Abound For Pharma Companies

...ibuted USD 4.4 billion in the company's 2005 sales expired on June 23, while Pfizer loses its patent for Zoloft, which totalled USD 3.3 billion in 2005 sales, on June 30. When a company loses its exclusive patent for a branded drug, market opens to a host of generic drugmakers that leads to a drop of nearly...

Madhya Pradesh To Concentrate On Better Rural Hygiene

...ugh the deadline for building toilets with a flush expired in February, elected representatives were given a month's grace before district collectors issued show-cause notices to errant panchayat representatives," Panchayati Raj director Vijay Singh Niranjan said. State Panchayati Raj Minister Narender Sin...

Patients with AIDS Need More Support From the Govt

...uthorize and update the Ryan White Care Act, which expired in September. This law pays an amount for the people with the virus who lack health insurance and other resources to care of themselves. Statistics show that about 70% of the new cases of HIV and AIDS are in the black community. About 49% are among...

Fraudulent Foreign Doctors Practising In Cambodia

...d her Surya Clinic and found that she held only an expired license issued four years ago in the name of a Cambodian doctor. The clinic offered wide variety of services such as minor surgery, a pharmacy, an ambulance service and in-patient facilities. It was closed by Cambodian authorities and was ordered ...

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