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Tag: "advisory" at medical news

Rajasthan Doctors Booked For Female Foeticide

... The minister added that a meeting of the medical advisory council will be held on May 22 to seek suggestions to strengthen the act. --Edited IANS...

Prolonged Use Of Contraceptive Pill Dianette May Cause Depression

...ating or changing, she said, adding that an expert advisory group would study the effects. --Edited IANS...

Acne Pill Linked to Depression

... updated or changed. She also added that an expert advisory group would discuss the effects. According to Schering UK, the manufacturers of the drug, ‘Severe depression is listed in the patient information leaflet as a reason for stopping Dianette immediately.’ ...

Change In Mental Makeup Could Prove Beneficial For Elders

...ns. At 81, the former chief justice of India and advisory board member of the Delhi-headquartered Agewell Foundation is looking forward to more years of service to society - trying to clear the backlog of court cases through the fast track. Moving away from the stereotype image of the elderly as lonely, n...

9/11 Escapees Have Worsening Respiratory And Psychological Problems

...e attacks and a member of the registry's community advisory board. "It is critical to know whether these physical and mental effects will continue, diminish or grow worse over time." Follow-up surveys are to be conducted later this month. Officials have admitted that it will take at least two decades to deter...

OTC sale for Xenical; Diet Drug; gets FDA approval

...The diet drug has been christened Alli. A federal advisory panel voted 11 to 3 in January that the drug, which works by blocking fat absorption, could be sold without a prescription. Although Xenical has been available as a prescription drug since 1999, it never got the star status partly because about hal...

Shangai Citizens to Monitor Billboards

...st metropolis, Shangai proposes to start a citizen advisory panel, preventing advertisers from featuring billb...f offensive advertising was not a large one. The advisory council will be used to arbitrate questionable material. It will also help authorities make judgment...

Is Aricept, the Alzheimer’s Drug Safe to Use against Vascular Dementia

...val. Sam Gandy, chairman of medical and scientific advisory council of the Alzheimer's Association, said that it was a rather surprising result but the findings cannot negate 10 years of the drug's safety record on the market. Gandy, who is also director of the neuroscience institute at Thomas Jefferson Uni...

FDA Recommends Strong Warning Labels On the ADHD Drugs

...eart risks due to the usage of ADHD drugs. The FDA advisory panel said that the ADHD drugs namely the Shire's Adderall and Novartis's Ritalin, should carry black box warnings highlighting the risk of heart attacks. Thomas Laughren, director of the Division of Pyschiatry Products at the FDA, said that as of ...

Norfolk PCTs To Offer Herceptin

... business case and submitted it to the therapeutic advisory groups, and the primary care trusts have backed the package," confirmed Simon Pain, consultant breast surgeon at the N&N. "About one in five women with breast cancer will be sensitive to Herceptin. We will test every breast cancer patient for it and ...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug Trial Criteria to Be Redefined

... re-approving of the drug as a single therapy. The advisory panel members would get together on the 7th and 8th of March to discuss the issue. 'A big mistake was made in these trials that, in my opinion, is easily preventable. All they need to do is tighten up entry criteria into multiple sclerosis clinical...

Holidays help in better management of stress

A study done by business advisory organization Grant Thornton International said that business people in Asia are more stressed than their Western counterparts. This is due to fewer holidays, business travel and fear over job security.// These factors led to an increase in the adrena...

More Study On Side Effects of ADHD Drug Needed: Shire Pharmaceuticals

...n has been taken following the reports of the U.S. advisory panel, which stated that strong warnings should be associated with marketing of such drugs. There is a possibility of sudden death, heart attacks and other complications associated with the use of the drug. The company officials have expressed keen...

Biocon To Raise Its Investment In Scotland

...he attended her first meeting of the international advisory board of Scottish Enterprise. The board is part of the government-funded development body's ‘globalscot’ network, a group of 900 senior business leaders based overseas who try to help Scottish companies and the economy. The Financial Times report s...

UK public misled over downgrading cannabis: Govt

...r Christmas, Clarke read the report from a special advisory group he set up to assess the latest medical evidence, and shall discuss its findings with colleagues this week before making a final decision. Leaks of the report suggest the Advisory Committee says use of the drug is clearly linked to mental ill...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

...Agency for cancer effects and the fish consumption advisory issued by the American Heart Association. "In farmed salmon, the cancer risk dominated the health benefits," Carpenter said. "We're not opposed to farmed salmon, just how it's farmed. The industry can reduce the level of toxins by changing how they ...

Online information system for patients

...-friendly. Patient advisors from several patient advisory groups at MCG Medical Center helped develop the project proposal and will help critique it, which will provide qualitative feedback on project efficacy at three-month intervals. The Stanford Patient Education Research Center’s Self Efficacy for Manag...

Epilepsy Medicine May Result In Sexual Dysfunction

...neurologist in Cologne, and a member of the body's advisory board. Surgeons are gaining experience in using brain scan technology to locate the source of the dysfunction, enabling them to better estimate the success of an operation. Epilepsy can be caused by an injury or by abnormal electrical activity in th...

US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths

...tly in Japan.' 'We welcome the outcome of the FDA advisory committee and look forward to working with the FDA and other health authorities to extend our knowledge of the use of Tamiflu and its safety profile,' said William Burns, head of Roche's pharma division. 'The positive role of Tamiflu remains unchange...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

...will present information about the cases to an FDA advisory panel today. Demand for Tamiflu has soared as avian flu, which has killed at least 64 people in the Far East, has spread to birds and poultry Europe. At least 50 countries including the US, UK and Japan have placed orders worth $1.4bn (￡810m) to pre...

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