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AIDS testing gets support from Bill Clinton

...has been working to bring quality medical care and cheaper drugs to sufferers in poor countries, said this year Lesotho would become the first country to do universal testing. As explained by him, "The whole idea is to treat this as a public health problem, not as some source of shame or disgrace and to k...

Ambien and the Other Insomnia Drugs

...eased attention. It’s just a matter of time before cheaper generic versions of insomnia drugs hit the market. Sanofi-Aventis is hoping to withstand some of the threat. Ambien has the lion's share of the $2 billion prescription insomnia drug market. Sepracor's Lunesta, available since last April, accounts...

Increasing Ice Psychosis

...icts in Australia. The reason being that ice is cheaper and more freely available than heroin. The head of emergency at St Vincent's Hospital, Dr Gordian Fulde, told that it takes about six staff members to contain a person affected by ice. These patients are wild and violent and are the most out of co...

Bhopal Residents Relish Chicken despite Bird Flu Scare

... eaten. So why should not I eat chicken when it is cheaper than vegetables,' said Ikran Ali, who has been eating chicken nearly every day. Till date, no case of avian influenza or bird flu has come to light in Madhya Pradesh. But as cases of bird flu were detected in Maharashtra in February, the city also ...

New Generation Teenagers Addiction to Prescription Drugs

... for a more powerful dose they turn to heroin as a cheaper option. // Michaud, now 18 years is one of a new generation of American children getting addicted to prescription drugs. Teenagers are increasingly experimenting with legal drugs like OxyContin, (hillbilly heroin) and Vicodin, often bought online or...

Dialysis Clinics Owned By Fresenius Flourishes Due To Its Customers

...mong the transplantation procedures and it is much cheaper than those procedure. Without dialysis patients usually die within weeks. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more than 64,000 people are waiting for kidneys in the U.S. Annie Moore a spokesperson said that transplants is still rela...

Contraceptives to get some reprieve from VAT in UK

...asury along with 9,000 condoms. "Making condoms cheaper will obviously make them more accessible to more people. Sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies are very high in the UK already so anything that can help make condoms and emergency contraceptives more accessible is welcome," said a f...

Small Cars, Anti-AIDS And Anti-Cancer Drugs Would Be Cheaper

...reduced from 24 percent to 16 percent, making them cheaper by Rs.12,000-20,000. However, the cost of some 80-odd services ranging from telephony, to credit card balances, beauty parlours, cinema tickets, restaurants and consultancy services will go up with the tax on these being raised from 10 to 12 percen...

Singapore’s Healthcare To Outsource To Indian Firm For Faster X-Ray Result

... Doctors at the Ang Mo Kio polyclinic said it is cheaper having the X-ray read in Bangalore than by radiologists in Singapore, and the reports from India are more detailed. "The Indian reports are quite detailed," sai Winnie Soon, a senior family physician. "This is very helpful to patients who want to k...

Delhi Sees Sharp Decline In Chicken Prices

...n to farms therefore we are forced to sell them at cheaper prices," said Alam, who had parked two tempos carrying chickens at the fishery wing of Gazipur, the largest wholesale fish and poultry market in north India, to sell them illegally. "This is our family business and I work with my uncle. He is manag...

Frozen fish is costly and also lacks vital nutrients

...is because the price per kilos actually worked out cheaper than buying most frozen products. There was also a bigger variety of fish available which could be cooked in different methods....

India Can Become Major HIV Drugs Producer

...o not prevent pharmaceutical firms from developing cheaper mass-scale fixed dose ARV treatment. The Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD) president R. Parameswar said the quality of doctors and skilled human resources, both in medicine and pharmaceutical sectors, lend India the pote...

Topical Quinolone effective in controlling eardrum perforations

...e easily cured using topical quinolone which offer cheaper and better treatment but the researchers have not done a long term study to know the effect of these quinolone on children’s and in some cases it may lead to ototoxicity due to topical administration which could be controlled if early signs of side e...

Drug Name Confusion Makes Imports Dangerous: FDA

...te group which advocates import of drugs to supply cheaper medicine to the cash-strapped American consumer, believes the FDA is highlighting the danger to help further the Bush Administration's anti-drug importation agenda. Sharon Treat, executive director of the NLAPDP said, "All this alert does is prove...

Cancer Cover Insurance “The Big V” Is Launched In U.

...nsurance cover "The big V" declares that it is 45% cheaper when compared to other insurance cover programme. The incidence of cancer in UK is very high and every one out of three people suffer from cancer. Institute of cancer research at UK said that age plays a major role in developing cancer; every one ...

FDA to Revise Herpes Test Rules in the US

...to revise rules that could make herpes virus tests cheaper and more extensively available.// The FDA said it might change the classification of tests for herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 to class II from class III, which would reduce the regulatory burdens associated with the tests. The change would pave...

Price Of Alcohol Does Not Influence Consumption

... It only contributes towards drinkers going in for cheaper and inferior liquor. Researchers believe across-the-board price increases may not always have the intended effects on alcohol sales, and suggest 'minimum price posting' as an alternative policy measure. They say the same tax may have different impa...

Pakistan drug companies seek trade ties with India

... problems with the Chinese, though their rates are cheaper than the Indian market," Hafiz Usmani, spokesman for the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, told IANS. He said a number of Pakistani pharmaceutical companies were contacting their Indian counterparts especially for herbal, unani and...

Food labels to include information on trans fats in US

...shelf life, are solid at room temperature, and are cheaper than other types of fat. They affect how a product tastes, sometimes in hard-to-duplicate ways. Trans fats can wreak havoc on humans, lowering good cholesterol, raising bad cholesterol and reducing the quality of everything from testosterone to b...

New Portable Helmet Scanner To Examine Newborns

...ce high-quality images at the cot side and is also cheaper than MRI. "It could make an important contribution to the care and treatment of critically ill babies." Edited IANS...

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