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Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...these forms of nicotine replacement are not always user friendly. But with the number of smokers increasing day by day and the number of diseases caused due to smoking also increasing, these nicotine replacement options, however fanciful, are always welcome....

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

...s research in which he compared the brains of MMDA user verses non users using PET scan identified that there is a lasting reduction of serotonin transporters occurred throughout the brain and people who had used MDMA more often lost more serotonin transporters than those who had used the drug less freque...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...ental caries on tooth roots and crowns. A typical user holds a wad of chew in his cheek for 30 minutes at a time and uses the product in this manner throughout the day, exposing the teeth to the tobacco for several hours. Moreover, both chew and snuff can contribute to gingival (gum) recession and theref...

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

...dvocates and the government to make OTC drugs more user friendly. The campaign, which will include television and radio spots, coincides with the government's changeover to new labels for these drugs. Most over-the-counter drugs manufactured after May will carry the new standardized "Drug Facts" label. ...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...e market. Drug companies have paid millions in user fees that help fund FDA’s review of their products since 1993, under a law called the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA. At the same time, it is costing more to review ever more complex drugs - and companies are discovering fewer of them, mean...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...e worn during sleep but an alarm will sound if the user inadvertently rolls over the cord, Greco said. This can result in sleep deprivation, a reason one woman cited when she dropped out of the study. The other woman dropped out because of the time commitment required, the researcher said. Although revi...

Less is more for preserving teeth and gums

...f damage to gums,// particularly if the toothbrush user presses too hard. "Once you go beyond approximat...ise. "It is virtually impossible for the average user to gauge how much pressure they are applying," said Prof Heasman. His best advice was to compare the...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...systems using a mini-microscope, which rely on the user recognizing “ferning” patterns from small samples of saliva or cervical mucus are highly susceptible to producing false negatives. The “ferning” patterns indicate fertility, so if a woman does not see a “ferning” pattern, she may incorrectly surmise ...

Impotence Drugs Ordered by FDA to have Label Change

...among 38 users of Viagra, 4 users of Cialis, and 1 user of Levitra. The FDA said however that it was unable to determine if the drugs were the actual cause behind the loss of eyesight or whether the problem was related to other health factors. The agency announced that other health factors like High bl...

A new replacement

...aid. "TruScan diagnoses on the spot and guides the user with lights to the correct location for sampling."The device emits radiation in the visible and infrared spectra along with electrical impulses. Mr Skladnev said that these emissions could not be felt by the patient and there were no adverse effects....

New form of ultrasonic vision

...an approach similar to Stetten’s but requiring the user to wear a tracking device to determine viewer location. Stetten has eliminated the need for tracking devices and transmitters by taking full advantage of the way in which a translucent mirror superimposes images from both sides of the glass. He stra...

Condom vending machine to be started in Jharkand

...threat of HIV infection." The booths will be made user friendly and will be operational 24 hours a day and the first booth is to be started in the district of Bokaro. Earlier, these condoms were only sold in pharmacies and people are shy over buying these condoms from the shop, and the use of these vendi...

Aspirin Might Counter Side Effects of Cox-2 Painkillers

...pirin and compared with the placebo and Cox-2 drug user groups....

Delhi Government To Interlink All Major Hospitals Through e-Governance

... admission through this system just by providing a user name and password. By April 2006, 10 modules, including the diagnosis report, outpatient department, medicines available, and the disease details of patients would be made available in six major hospitals and the 32 remaining modules would be made ...

Love And Drug Addiction Share The Same Chemistry

.... In addition, both love and drug abuse leaves the user with an insatiable feeling, probing for a want or craving. A number of changes take place inside the human body as the brain is processing feelings of love. The heart starts beating thrice as fast as the normal rate (72 beats/minute). There is an i...

POCKET To Protect Children’s Privac

...pitfalls, the Virginia research team has devised a user friendly, reliable and cost effective program to enable the parent to protect the child’s personal information during online transaction without parent’s direct involvement. Source: Eureklert...

Mainstream medicine collides with alternate treatment: increasing health risks

...ant women assume they are safe to use. A "typical" user of complementary and alternative medicines is an educated woman aged 25-44, who lives in a city and earns a high income. Younger respondents were more likely to believe such treatments helped their immune system and older respondents used them for ...

Drug Database Goes On Air

...created a database, which was very interactive and user friendly for teaching his students at the university of Alberta. He worked on it to develop the database, which eventually resulted in this free online drug database. This provided detailed information about the various drugs, their targets, chemic...

Roche offers HIV drug expertise to poor nations

... now available, Africa will be the world's biggest user of HIV medicine. We have taken this unique step to help ensure that the right medicines in the right formulation are locally available. We want to use the knowledge we have developed to help strengthen local manufacturing capability and hope to help ...

Chugai Pharmaceutical To Initiate Domestic Production Of Bird Flu Vaccine

...lu vaccine (Tamiflu) in Japan, the World’s biggest user of the anti-flu preparation, would soon be initiated by Chugai Pharmaceutical Company, a subsidiary of Roche Ltd. // Request by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan is said to have sparked the initiative. The domestic production of th...

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