Fresh warnings to doctors regarding abortion pill
...id. People opposing abortion have asked the FDA to asking FDA to withdraw the drug Mifeprex. For the past 5 years in U.S. more than 460,000 women are taking Mifeprex. In the five deaths reported due to Mifeprex since 2000. Three of the five deaths were caused by a rare bacterium Clostridium sordellii. One...Scandals Can Affect Medical Research
...sts that medical staff may have been deterred from asking for donations during the scandal, they add. Although registrations began to recover towards the end of the study period, when medical sources attempted to restore public confidence and the scandal began to wane, these findings show that media report...Indian Pharmaceutical Industries Stops Manufacturing And Sale Of Valdecoxib
... // the health ministry of the government of India asking the pharma companies to stop selling and production of Valdecoxib. Ranbaxy as already withdrew the drug from the market after the suggestions of the National Pharmacological vigilance Advisory Committee. Glenmark Pharma had a major market share in ...Smokers Avoid Dental Care More Than Others
...research might improve such educational efforts by asking smokers why they don’t visit the dentist more often. The research may determine whether this is a matter of personal choice, a lack of awareness, a financial issue, or whether there are obstacles as part of the dental visit itself. Source: Newswise...Indian doctors in America help Katrina victims
...ty led by Rakesh Mungal has taken the challenge of asking doctors to help. IAPS has been provided 15 to 20 doctors to the Houston Astro Dome round the clock every day, providing help ranging from basic primary care to injuries. The more critical patients are siphoned to the various hospitals through the H...Cell molecules behind neuro degenerative diseases
... kind of genetic stutter within the cell’s nucleus asking for multiple copies of the amino acid glutamine, a building block of protein structure. These disorders are collectively known as polyglutamine diseases. Along with Huntington’s, these diseases include spinobulbar muscular atrophy; spinocerebellar a...Fruits and vegetables found to interact with drugs in a dangerous way
... medicines, many don't realize they should also be asking about the food interactions with drugs. Hence caution is needed while taking fruits along with medications. There are probably more food and beverage interactions that have not yet been discovered....Patients recover fast when kept in rooms with medicated coir mats
...ll-fledged project report to the Kerala government asking for financial support to prove the results with statistical evidence. "This is certainly a path-breaking study which has found success and we expect the government to come to our help with financial support for a proposed study on a bigger group of ...Now medicated coir to cure ailments
...ll-fledged project report to the Kerala government asking for financial support of Rs.10 million. We want the study to be done on more patients and to prove it statistically," he said. Viswanathan said the government appeared positively inclined as the move would give a fillip to the ailing coir industry. ...Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory
... volunteers. While people performed computer tasks asking them to remember arrays of coloured squares or rectangles, their brain activity was recorded. Participants were told to hold in their mind two red rectangles while ignoring two blue ones. It was found that without exception, every individual with a ...Addition Of Folic Acid In Flour Proposed To Arrest Birth Defects In The UK
...aring age and their families. The public should be asking why we have not done this already,' he commented....Chlamydia Screening To Be Offered With Emergency Contraception
...naware that they harbor the disease. Young women asking for the morning-after pill at pharmacies will be g...a screening will be offered to another 1,000 women asking for emergency contraception at family planning clinics and 400 asking for it at the Manchester Brook...Catherine Zeta wants to give up nicotine cravings
...my kids are at an age when they are going to start asking questions, Female first quoted the Oscar winner, as saying. However it's yet to be seen if Jones is able to quit, as she had recently demanded she be flown to a recent awards bash by private jet, so she could enjoy a cigarette while flying. (Sourc...Pakistan On Alert After Cases Of Fatal Fever
...fied himself as a nazim contacted RGH Sunday night asking the hospital authorities not to send it, a hospital official said. IANS......iments by hanging a covered mirror in the wall and asking his subjects to guess the exact place from which they would be able to see themselves. In the end most of the people said that they would be able to see their reflection before they were near the edge of the mirror. Hence It was concluded that ma...Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Now Be Used For Mind Reading
...ed data were raised among the study group, such as asking whether or not the subject liked or disliked a labeled photograph of comedian Carrot Top. This also allowed them to form stronger memories. The subjects were given arithmetic problems to prevent memorizing the 90 items and were then asked to recollec...Meat firm 'won't go down without a fight'
...and safety, and if we have any concerns we will be asking the company more questions and we will keep doing that until we get the answers we need so we can give a clean bill of health," Dr Buckett said. He said the department would want to know is why it failed and where it failed, and what measures are g...Colour Identification Lies Wholly On the Left Hemisphere of the Brain.
.... The researchers went on to test their theory by asking the subjects to memorize a series of words during the visual tests. With their left brain's language centre otherwise occupied, there would be less opportunity for it to influence visual perception, and so, as expected, the subjects picked out blue o...Russia warns against travel to Turkey, Iran closes border
...rist areas. "For the time being it is not worth asking Russian tourists to refrain from trips to Turkey," a spokesman told Interfax. Russia battled with its own outbreak of bird flu last year. Onishchenko has previously warned that although the virus seemed to be dying out, migratory birds could bring ......ens.com. Compared to locum tenens industry studies asking the same question of physicians across a range of specialties, LocumTenens.com's 2005 figure represents an increase of 20 percent since 1997. The current state of U.S. healthcare has benefited physician recruitment firms increasingly over the past...