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Experts Critical of a New OTC Product to Treat Psoriasis

...en tests showed that the Spanish-made product also contained clobetasol propionate, an extremely potent topical steroid. Topical steroids are available only on prescription and there are dangerous side effects to it including raised blood pressure, fluid retention, diabetes and suppression of the adrenal gla...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

... his colleagues say. They first isolated the MIF contained in semen samples collected from 68 infertile and 27 reproductively healthy men. The samples were collected from men three to five days after a period of sexual abstinence and analyzed by scientists who had no idea which group of men the samples be...

Research Finds No Link Found Between Autism and Celiac Disease

...ther antibody to confirm the diagnosis. Each group contained 18 boys and 16 girls between the ages of four and 16. The study found autistic children were no more likely than children without autism to develop celiac disease. Anti-gliadin antibodies were found in four children with autism and two without auti...

FDA Warns Against Buying of Counterfeit Drug Through Internet

...nd submitted to the FDA confirmed that one capsule contained sibutramine, which is the active ingredient in Meridia, an FDA-approved prescription drug manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. Not all people can use the drug though both help to lose weight. Both the drugs interaction profile is different. Sibutrami...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...firefighters, the Horticultural Technologies plant contained hundreds of chemicals, including pesticides, acids and aerosol paint cans. In the years following the fire, firefighters who were at the scene reported babies born with birth defects, elevated rates of cancer and Parkinson's disease. Studies have s...

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

...lackened 16,000 to 18,000 acres and was 35 percent contained on Wednesday night. Officials in southeastern Georgia issued a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for an area including the town of Moniac, saying that by early Thursday it may be in the path of a 107,000-acre blaze, or 167 square miles, in the Okefen...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

... TV, has revealed that the champagne bottles which contained the weed killer that poisoned Pakistans former cricket coach Bob Woolmer, was in fact handed over to him by a person well known to him-bowling coach Mustaq Ahmed. The channel also mentioned that the team manager Talat Ali was witness to this....

Thin People may Be Internally Fat

...foods. But sadly, these processed diet foods often contained other fat-producing ingredients such as overdose of sugar, vegetable oils and refined flour that increase internal fat. Researchers believe that thin people, who maintain their weight through diet restrictions rather than physical exercise, probabl...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...m U.S. 441. In Florida, the blaze was 50 percent contained Tuesday. The smoke had lifted enough to open Interstates 10 and 75 to traffic, but drivers were warned that periodic closures were still possible. Another large wildfire, in northeastern Minnesota and Ontario, could be brought under control by the ...

Being Overzealous With Multivitamins May Lead To Prostate Cancer

...o nonessential, potentially harmful trace elements contained in zinc supplements, such as cadmium, a known carcinogen," the researchers opine....

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...d from any country. Last year India successfully contained the disease that had struck parts of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh mostly in backyard poultry. The infection was believed to have been transmitted through migratory birds. Recently the Government denied reports of occurrence of the disease ...

Climate Change Threatening to Wipe Out Wild Relatives of Key Crops

... wild relatives threatened food production as they contained genes for traits such as pest resistance and drought tolerance, which plant breeders use to improve the performance of cultivated varieties. Wild crops are a valuable source of genes that are necessary to boost the ability of cultivated crops to r...

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

...ify the cream it used, it only says that the cream contained "retinol." Retinol is a type of Vitamin A, which is very beneficial to humans. It is considered to be essential for proper vision and bone growth. Retinol has been successfully used as a treatment for acne and skin ailments. Researchers recruited...

Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

...to one of two drug combinations. Both combinations contained a drug called benazepril, which belongs to a class of medicines known as ACE inhibitors. The other drug in one of the combinations is a diuretic called hydrochlorothiazide. In the other combination pill, its a drug called amlodipine, one of a class o...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...se it was lost. Shimatsu claims the robot actually contained a radiation detector to spy on Asian nuclear sites and was powered by plutonium. He thinks it must have fallen into Tibet, near the watershed of the Brahmaputra, another of Asia's greatest rivers. Eventually, he says, growing heat from the pluton...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...vered a modified adeno-associated virus (AAV) that contained the S100A1 gene to the heart's coronary arteries with the help of a novel heart-specific "gene promoter" that enabled the gene to be present only in heart cells. The rats with heart failure were then followed for another two months, when their hear...

US Halts Import of Chinese Toothpaste

...aste from stores last week after tests showed they contained high levels of diethylene glycol. No illnesses have been reported from the contaminated paste though. The two toothpaste brands entered Panama illegally from China through a free-trade zone, Panamanian public investigators said. The safety o...

Blue Moon at Midnight from June 1

... the four seasons (winter, spring, summer or fall) contained four full Moons instead of the usual three, that the third full Moon should be called a "Blue Moon." But thanks to a couple of misinterpretations of this arcane rule, first by a writer in a 1946 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, and much later, ...

Enriching Environment Stimulates Neurons: Hope For Fragile X Syndrome

...e toys, and also gave them time in play cages that contained running wheels, tunnels, different bedding material, and interesting objects. The researchers found that such an enriched environment did, indeed, restore normal neuronal plasticity. The researchers concluded that "increased sensory, cognitive, and...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...tives, assumptions or future events or performance contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "pred...

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