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American Sports Star Teenager Dies Due To Overdose Of Muscle Cream

...uch creams, was discovered in her body. Various companies such as Johnson and Johnson produce such creams meant to ease muscle strain and tension caused by too much exercise. The products such as Bengay, Icy Hot etc., contain ingredients that relax the muscles. Instructions are given to not exceed applicati...

Cider can Ward Off Cancer and Heart Disease

...onsumption, as well as the largest cider producing companies in the world. Overall, it produces about 500 million litres of cider per year. The drink is also available in several part of India including Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Chandigarh, Gurgaon and Rajasthan. In India, cider started as a fresh draught drink...

Chinese Chilli Flunks Food Safety Tests

...a broad range of dishes. The products came from 38 companies in 12 provinces and municipalities, including Beijing and Shanghai, the report said without detailing if any of the chilli was exported. 'The products produced by small firms have lots of safety problems, while those from large- and middle-sized ones...

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

...irin are effective first aids, Dauer noted. Some companies sell UV test strips and UV dosimeters, which you attach to your skin. They signal when your skin type has absorbed a critical amount of UV radiation. But Reinhold said it was more important to develop a feeling for how much sun your skin can take....

Body Parts Industry Of U.S Under Investigation

...organ parts for transplant, has now more than 2000 companies dealing within it. This Tuesday, the FDAs tissue... and certification or immediate inspections of new companies that set up shop in the tissue business. They also would not prevent fraud. The task force was com...

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

...erhaps a pointer to how Western drug manufacturing companies perceive Nigeria in particular and Africa in general as one huge laboratory for anything-goes drug trials," the party said. It criticised the Kano state government for its shoddy handling of the matter and wondered why it took the state and federal g...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...ynch warned that poor air quality could prompt big companies to move to Singapore with expatriate workers unwilling to live here. "The government in Hong Kong is relatively powerless to address the true causes until Beijing gets tough. It could be a long and choking wait that many could choose not to endure," ...

HIV Drugs Unaffordable for Common Man: Kalam

...ommon man in the country. Stating that the Indian companies have done formidable job in bringing down the price of first and second line HIV drugs, Kalam said: "Even this reduction does not make the drug affordable to the common man in our country." Speaking at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (...

One Man's 'Fortified' Bread is Another's Poison

One of Australia's biggest bread companies is not happy with the proposal to fortify all available brands of bread with folic acid. They are petitioning the state and federal// governments to veto this proposal. The objective of such a proposal is to enhance the foliate levels in women of c...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

... manufacturer Pfizer Inc. and other pharmaceutical companies said they would comply with the FDA's request. "We believe this step will help ensure that the millions of people with depression who are young adults age 24 and under and their families can make informed treatment decisions while minimizing the fe...

No Increased Risk of Certain Cancers from Electromagnetic Fields Among Energy Workers

...y workers at 99 different electrical energy supply companies in Denmark. All the employees had been employed at the companies for a minimum of three months since 1968, and they were tracked for an average of nearly 23 years or...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

.... In addition to the results presented today, the companies expect that more data from the SPARC trial will be presented at future upcoming major medical conferences. Please note: The scientific information discussed in this press release related to Satraplatin is investigative. Satraplatin has not yet be...

Pharmacists' Workload Contributes To Errors

... Researchers reviewed data submitted to insurance companies from 672 pharmacies in 18 metropolitan regions. The pharmacies filled an average of 18,000 prescriptions from January to March 2003, or 1,375 prescriptions per week. During that time, the average number of potentially harmful drug-drug interactions d...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...ogies and pledges of better quality control by the companies that marketed the controversial spinach-Natural Selection Foods, the peanut butter – Con-Agra foods, as well as Menu Foods which had to recall its pet food after it was found contaminated with bad wheat gluten. Says Bart Stupak, chairman of the Ove...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

...ish the permissible level of exposure for workers, companies can set any limit of exposure they want. Instead...reaching agreements with industry associations and companies to police themselves. Critics say the voluntary programs tend to have little focus on specific ha...

Bio-Rad Gets Life Science Industry Awards – 200

...ards have been instituted to honor "best-in-class" companies in the life sciences. The Life Science Industry Aw... participating scientists cast their votes for the companies that have made the greatest contributions to life science technology in the past year. As a result, ...

Indonesia Struggles Against Bird Flu and the Drug Industry as Well

...would resume sending specimens, provided that drug companies be required to seek permission before using its viruses to make vaccines. That is a major departure from the WHO's free sharing system used to develop seasonal flu vaccines. The temporary deal applies only to Indonesia, and all other governments ar...

Muslim Organization Protest Against Sex Education in Schools

...stry's move seems to be motivated by multinational companies that are forcing the government to introduce such things in schools." The ISOI is also planning to seek support from other student bodies like the Students Federation of India (SFI), National Students Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidya...

FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Ambien for Insomnia

...lligrams are manufactured by multiple generic drug companies in the United States. The following 13 manufacturers have received FDA approval for zolpidem tartrate tablets: Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA, Roxane Laboratories Inc., Watson Laboratories Inc., Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Dr. Re...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...esler who performed the latest operation said that companies were beginning to make special surgical tools for such specialist operations. Millions of dollars were pouring into the project. However, there are some who object. Dr. Christine Ren, an associate professor of surgery at New York University’s sch...

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