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Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...r, as Medicare and most private insurance carriers approve payment for cardiac rehabilitation only if the patient has recently experienced a heart attack. "If this study proves that training not only improves the exercise capability of patients, but also extends their life and reduces hospitalizations, ins...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

...Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology did not approve earlier papers, according to which contact with cat allergens during the first few months of a child’s life has a protective effect. The team of authors could even show that apart from keeping cats, even just repeated contact with cat hair within or ...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

...ing. It is currently waiting for the government to approve a proposed contract deal before it can go to a ballot of doctors. Mr Mohib Khan, Chairman of the BMA SAS Committee, says: “We are the last group of healthcare workers to have the opportunity to vote for a new contract. The government seems intent...

High Demand for the Cancer Vaccine

..., or HPV. New Hampshire was the first state to approve the free distribution of the vaccine. They started the distribution in January and expected to vaccinate one quarter of the suitable girls. The advertising has created a great demand for the vaccine. At three doses per patient only a small percentage...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...o enable the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve of generic version of biotech drugs without trials. Biotech medicines are the fastest-growing category of health spending, with sales of $40 billion last year, up 20 percent from 2005, according to IMS Health, a market research company. More than ...

U.S. Navy Offers Intralase No-Blade Lasik for Servicemen

...ve the surgery. The military had been reluctant to approve the traditional method in which Lasik is performed using a blade. The new announcement, which was published in the last issue of NavyTimes, explains that Lasik surgeries will be granted only if they are performed using the no-blade Intralase method. ...

FDA Cites Challenges of Generic Biotech

...cade or more before science is available to safely approve generic versions of biotech drugs // in the way th...Mollerup said that if Congress creates a system to approve cheaper protein-based drugs it should be similar to one already used by the European Union. Under ...

Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix

...vists all over the world. Drug companies do not approve such moves as they are investing a lot of money in research and development and in the formulation of a new drug. Fabrice Baschiera, general manager of Sanofi-Aventis in Thailand said, "The best way to find solutions to difficult health care challeng...

Drugs Watchdog Faces A Judicial Review

...gal review// over the health watchdog's refusal to approve drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. According to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), people who are either in the early or in the later stages of Alzheimer's disease cannot be treated with medicines on the NHS. But Eis...

EU Considers Allowing Cloned Meat, Milk on Market

...d and Drug Administration (FDA) said it planned to approve cloning for food production later this year. The US regulator has issued a consultation proposing to allow the product into the food chain without the need for labelling. An independent study in the US indicates that 60 per cent of Americans woul...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...Chris Gregoire has moved the senate to unanimously approve of a bill that would change the face of the state’s health system. The bill is expected to extend health insurance to 38, 000 children in Washington. According to the governor, this bill serves to extend the coverage of children by heal...

Caution Urged on Biologic Drugs

...ering a bill to permit United States regulators to approve generic versions of biologics, drugs based on livi...dministration, however, lacks the legal ability to approve generic versions of biologics. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said such legislation should be...

NICE Gives the Final ‘NO’ to Roche’s Tarcva

...nted and disillusioned with NICE’s decision not to approve Tarceva purely on economic grounds. “It's the second blow that NICE has dealt to lung cancer patients in a month, following the announcement to decline Alimta - so there are now very few options left for lung cancer patients.” NICE ‘s Chief Exec...

Generic Biologics – U.S Panel Hearing Draws Mixed Response

...he Food and Drug Administration legal authority to approve alternative versions of expensive biologic drugs a...to do so safely. All FDA lacks is the authority to approve these therapies,' he added. The repercussions of the decision will extend to other areas. Employ...

FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics

As the FDA cannot approve an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for a l...cacy issues, and the FDA has announced that it can approve ANDAs provided all other legal and regulatory requirements are met. The FDA added that the ruling wa...

HPV Infections On The Rise In US

...fraternity reiterate the significance of the newly approve vaccine. The state of Florida is contemplating bills that would immunize girls before they start their active sex life. JYT...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

...ator of this highly sensitive area, is expected to approve the policy when it meets on Wednesday. At present,... The HFEA, chaired by Shirley Harrison, is set to approve the policy despite a host of leading scientists voicing a range of concerns during the consultation ...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

...the company that originally registered the drug to approve the marketing of the generic, and so these generic manufacturers must carry out their own safety and efficacy studies. Generic manufacturers are thus obliged to repeat clinical and preclinical trials—something that takes time and is costly. More im...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

... by clinicians and regulatory agencies and used to approve several treatments, recent advances, including increased use of positron emission tomography (PET) scans and immunohistochemistry in lymphoma response assessment, prompted the IHP to substantially revise the criteria. The IHP recommendations aim to...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

...r authorities in the US signalled they intended to approve milk and meat from clones for human consumption. “We will continue to monitor developments, but we recognise this technology is only emerging now and we don't expect it to become widespread for some time,” said Tod. European dairy and farming g...

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