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No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...idence of a drug safety crisis. The current drug controversy is largely due to the withdrawal of Vioxx from the market, but the decrease in drug approval times thanks to the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA), and undue influence from the pharmaceutical industry that these acts may have invited have also ...

Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...apies. But at the very least, it helped settle the controversy of why photoreceptors are failing and why people go blind. Knowing the right cell type to target is half the battle, and we’re saying it’s the RPE, not the photoreceptor, and that the functional gene can potentially be added back to the RPE using gen...

NICE Gives the Final ‘NO’ to Roche’s Tarcva

...NHS. This decision will only flame the fires of controversy over access to expensive modern cancer treatments, as it follows bickering over whether Herceptin, another Roche product, should be given to women with early breast cancer. Calling the action as ‘perverse’ and ‘flawed’ Roche is claiming a soon- ...

Calcium in Arterial Plaque is a Good Indicator for Risk of Stroke

... as well as total plaque volume. “There’s a lot of controversy about whether calcium in plaque is a marker of stability or instability,” Dr. Kramer explains. “When plaque in the coronary and carotid arteries is unstable, it is thought to lead to heart attack and stroke, respectively.” Study findings show that ...

President of an African Nation Claims Herbal Cure for AIDS, Experts Skeptical

...eing administered across the country. The raging controversy has resulted in the expulsion of UN envoy Fadzai Gwaradzimba from Gambia. She had wanted the usual anti-retroviral treatment to continue for Gambians till the President’s cure was properly authenticated by experts. The U.N. Development Program an...

Expert Panel Sets Limits on Pesticide Residues in Soft Drinks

... constituted it in November 2004, in the wake of a controversy over pesticide residues in colas. The Indian Center for Science and Environment (CSE) had published a report claiming that its findings revealed high levels of pesticides in Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The levels were 24 times higher than allowed by the ...

Brazilian Boost for Bird Flu Vaccines

... vaccines available. Last month, Indonesia stirred controversy by signing an exclusive agreement to supply virus samples to a US pharmaceutical company in exchange for technology to manufacture a vaccine. The WHO is helping several developing countries, including Cambodia, Egypt, Laos, Nigeria and Vietnam, t...

Madhya Pradesh to Stop Sex Education in Schools

... changes during adolescence and on AIDS. But the controversy created by some groups, including the Congress and a section of teachers, over the alleged explicit material in the teaching kit forced the government to close it. These groups claimed it was too early for Class 9 and 11 students to study about sex. ...

Patrons Of A Brisbane Restaurant Warned Of Hepatitis A

...aurant is reported to be in the centre of a health controversy involving hepatitis A virus. Queensland Health department had requested people //who ate at Wagamama restaurant at Chermside in the first week of March to seek the help of a doctor if they develop fever, stomach ache or loss of appetite and jaundice....

Delhi Police, Home Guards to Guard LNGP

...e emergency ward, which is often the flashpoint of controversy in the hospital," he said after the meeting. Delhi Chief Secretary Narayan Swami was also present at the meeting. Negi said that resident doctors have promised to call off the strike after their general body meeting. "They may join work Friday." ...

NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital

...re unit of the hospital. His death sparked a big controversy on whether any hospital management can stop providing medical services to a patient, even if his bills are not reimbursed. The PBT memorandum said: "Chapters 1 and 2 of the MCI Act (Code of Medical Ethics) also mandate that no hospital or doctor ca...

Swami Ramdev to Hold Yoga Camps in U.S.

...) facility. The Swami came out unscathed from a controversy in early 2006 when communist leader Brinda Karat claimed that Divya Yog Pharmacy, owned by him, was using human and animal bones in some of their ayurvedic medicines. Tests done at a lab showed that the medicines contained only herbal ingredients. ...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

...ation with worse outcomes in recent years, and the controversy that seems to surround this observation, is likely due to differences in distribution of these variables from study to study, from center to center, and from year to year." For future studies, she suggests that researchers use large databases to id...

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

...umers that was seen seen in the Vioxx scandal, the controversy surrounding the Avandia diabetes pill and the contamination of imported pet food. California farmers have instituted voluntary changes in growing and processing practices to better protect their products from such contamination. Over a decade, food...

Doctor Advises Caution Over Flu Drug

...all minor as well as serious adverse events. The controversy about oseltamivir is a further reminder that, although common adverse effects of a drug may emerge in prelicensing studies, the detection of rarer and potentially more serious events has to await exposure of large numbers of patients, he says. In t...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...TV network decided to brave a Europe-wide storm of controversy this month and air a TV reality show featuring a dying woman offering her kidney for transplant . From Chile to China, tens of thousands of kidney sufferers pinning their hopes on donated organs face waits of three to four years -- when they survive....

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

... coma unlikely to regain back. This has become a controversy as many people have raised an objection to it for families find it difficult to let go their loved ones. Further complicating the matter are the differing obligations of the personnel involved in the process: physicians and nurses, who have a respons...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...e has lost its popularity in recent years due to a controversy surrounding its ingredients. The turnout has come down over the last five years. Less than 100,000 people had turned up last year. The Goud family still claims that more than half a million people gather from India and even abroad to take the medic...

Cancer Experts Received Threats for Opposing Controversial Drug

...urge the agency to approve Provenge. Meantime, the controversy surrounding GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia intensified on Wednesday as a medical expert told Congress that executives threatened to sue him when he raised questions in 1999 about the treatment's safety. "Despite additional warnings from ou...

Australian PM Wants to Prevent Entry of HIV Positive and Leprosy Affected People

...ectorate. Only last month he had kicked off a huge controversy with similar comments following reports that the number of newcomers carrying HIV into the state of Victoria had more than quadrupled in the past two years. Even then critics had pointed out the figure had little to do with immigration, but more w...

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