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Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...ecoming a multi billion-dollar industry, every one wants a blemish less skin and a spotless complexion. Every year a new Indian girl wins an international beauty pageant and the focus now is on looking your best. Pimples (acne) spoil the beautiful faces of many and severe acne is characterized by pustula...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...h largest number of AIDS patients in the world now wants to secure affordable drugs from around the world to tackle its AIDS epidemic. The Health Ministry of South Africa, published 70 pages of draft legislation that would allow it to shop around for the cheapest drugs, particularly those that can treat o...

Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug

... ciprofloxacin twice a day and the U.S. Government wants to purchase enough Ciprofloxacin to cover 12 million patients for 60 days. Ranbaxy is among the few Indian companies with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approval for the manufacture of Ciprofloxacin. The Mumbai-based Cipla, which is als...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

...mpson, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, wants Congress to provide $509 million to buy vaccines from four drug companies. He is talking to the drug companies that used to make it, hoping they will agree to make the vaccine and deliver it next year so it can be stockpiled. Smallpox is highly inf...

Resurface your skin

...especially if you've spent time in the sun. No-one wants these, but cosmetic creams have their limitations, and surgery is expensive so you might feel like resigning yourself to the inevitable. But, according to Dr Robert Weiss of Cleavland University//, there are now a number of new technologies that can ...

FDA attacks American Red Cross for blood violations

...nd inadequate donor registration controls. The FDA wants the court to grant it the power to levy fines of $10,000 a day as well as for each future safety violation inspectors discover....

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...and doctors about Arava's toxicity, Wolfe said. He wants the FDA to go further and ban Arava's sales. The FDA said it would carefully consider Wolfe's petition. A spokeswoman for Arava manufacturer Aventis Pharma said she had not seen the petition and declined comment about liver damage. Lise Geduldig sai...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...manufacturers to do those studies. The FDA said it wants to see if the new law makes the old mandate, which drug makers hated, unnecessary.// But three Democrats complained to President Bush that the action was halting "an important regulation that protects children from potentially unsafe and improperly...

Importance of soy protein in your diet

...it is low in saturated fat and cholesterol. If one wants to reduce the total calories in your diet, doctors feel that it may be a good notion to replace soy for some common animal foods, like meat or dairy products. If you are not used to soy products, the experts have many suggestions. Tofu, for example,...

Healthy ways to eat nourishing food

...t a new approach - concentrating on what your body wants to eat, rather than trying one diet after another. And the key is to get in touch with your body, first, by more physical activity - whatever you like to do, be it swimming, dancing or lifting weights. Then have regular nourishing meals to get back...

Inadequate proof to justify routine prostate screen

...s a routine screen at the present time. If a man wants a PSA test, his physician should discuss the benefits and risks. Early diagnosis of a curable cancer is an obvious benefit, but there is the risk of a false positive result, which could lead to unnecessary investigations. Surgery for prostate cancer ...

How a man's mind really works

...feely chatter in order to relax -- which is why he wants the remote control to zap through "mindless" sport or action movies. His brain takes in less sensory detail than a woman's, so he doesn't see or even feel the dust and household mess in the same way. Anyhow, the male brain attaches less personal ide...

Atkins Diet Damaging to Heart

...cardiac arrest while on the Atkins diet. The group wants the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look into adverse effects. Atkins diet promoters said the group was being anything but responsible in making this announcement. Agence France-Presse reports that the Atkins center is outraged by...

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

... a bad crowd," says Gohmann, an honors student who wants to be a psychologist. "They thought I was making it up." Abigail Rey experienced much the same response from her doctor in Virginia when she first got bad headaches five years ago. "My doctor said to just deal with it," says the 16-year-old, who n...

Hormone therapy may affect heart attack severity in women

...ation that occurs after a heart attack. The group, wants to see how soy, which has anti-inflammatory properties, would affect muscle damage. Other researchers were Irma Suparto, M.D., from the Institute Pertanian Bogor in Indonesia and Jacob Vinten-Johansen, Ph.D., a professor or surgery at Emory Universi...

Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops

The consortium, called Pharma-Planta, wants to produce vaccines and other treatments for major //diseases, such as HIV/Aids, rabies and TB and they hope to start clinical trials by the year 2009. The project's aim is to focus on areas that will be of greatest benefit to developing nations wher...

Testosterone patch for women Rejected For safety Reasons

...Gamble, global manufacturer of household products, wants to market the patch to women who have become menopausal after ovarian surgery however due to the rejection by members of the FDA panel the drug is kept on hold until more data is available to assess the drug. At a recent meeting panel members stron...

FDA Diminish Hopes On ‘Female Viagra

...l desire. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants more studies to be done on the Intrinsa patch made... equivalent of a blinking red light. Thus the FDA wants extensive five-year clinical trials involving thousands of women. Even two recent studies that ind...

Pause as you please

...t can suppress menstruation for as long as a woman wants should be available within a few years.The tablet, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone, appears to be a safe and reversible way of stopping the monthly menstrual cycle. Two versions of the new pill have just passed their first test in...

Stress relief for Diabetics

...have stressful situations where the blood pressure wants to go up and the blood sugar wants to go up, then the exercise kind of counter balances that." Hence leading a healthy life is the bes...

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