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Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...ne that helps constrict blood vessels. Though much cheaper than the two other approved drugs, Tracleer can cause liver problems, so users must have their liver enzymes checked every month. Viagra works by yet another mechanism, inhibiting an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 5. The drug relaxes blood vessels...

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

...d approved a deal to let the poorer nations import cheaper generic drugs to fight killer diseases like AIDS, ...om the smaller and poor nations will get access to cheaper generic drugs and that too without any pre-conditions,'' a spokesman from domestic pharma major Ranb...

Treatment for fibroids with "Abortion Pill"

...-shrinking - Lupron (leuprolide acetate), would be cheaper and better tolerated and would work just as well. Lupron, used as a preoperative treatment to assist in the surgical removal of fibroids, decreases the body's production of estrogen to menopausal levels. Though this is useful in shrinking fibroids, s...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

... on more expensive drugs, like Prozac, rather than cheaper ones that no longer have patent protection. The FDA's so-called "pediatric rule" was adopted in 1998. The new Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, signed into law in February, reauthorized the financial incentives, plus set up a grant program to a...

Drug dilemma confronts users of painkillers

...competitor, Celebrex, work differently than older, cheaper painkillers known to cause stomach ulcers. Merck had fought for over a year to be allowed to say Vioxx is gentler to the stomach. Finally, the FDA agreed that an 8,000-patient study found Vioxx users had half the risk of ulcers as users of the olde...

Hope for breast cancer patients

...ieve the new intra-operative radiotherapy could be cheaper and easier for women and may improve the treatment of breast cancer for patients living in remote areas or in the developing world. Dr. Emiel Rutgers, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, told the Third European Breast Cancer Conference...

Mouthwash as a weapon

...nvestigated, particularly as triclosan could prove cheaper to manufacture than many existing antimalarials.// Triclosan is the anti-bacterial ingredient of mouthwashes, and acne medications, but has never been considered as something which could be used in the blood. In tests on animals at the Jawaharlal N...

Cipro Has Cheaper Cousins to Treat Anthrax

...tic. But if the supply dwindles, doctors say other cheaper and widely available medications can be used, including a previous generation's wonder drug: penicillin. Although alternatives exist, Cipro is the latest and greatest, so it tends to get attention. // It helped that Cipro was the only drug approve...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

here is little benefit in replacing older and cheaper antibiotics by the latest and most expensive drugs when treating acute, uncomplicated sinusitis, according to US researchers. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine set out to determine whether the symptoms could be treated with ...

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

...ative antibiotics, Salkind noted, because they are cheaper than many other drugs and less likely to induce side effects or cause drug resistance.The best way out of this problem is to perform an on the spot skin test to check if the patient is actually hypersensitive to penicillin, the scientists say. To re...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

...rch has shown that providing workers with drugs is cheaper than paying for absenteeism, loss of productivity, hospitalization, funerals and replacing and retraining staff. However the government of South Africa has said it would be impossible for it to provide free HIV drugs through public health system. Th...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...ue in the meat market dips. Hence farmers find it cheaper to slaughter the infected animals rather than goin for a vaccination programme." India has a policy of not destroying infected cattle and hence has chosen the vaccination option. The vaccine is a liquid preparation which can be monovalent (against a...

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