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Tag: "counter" at medical news

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

...97 and 1999 to see what impact making NRT over the counter (in the mid 1990s) has had. They found an increase in the number of smokers trying to quit - from 38 per cent of smokers in 1992 to 60 per cent in 1999. Use of NRT increased three fold over this time - probably as it became easier to obtain. But mu...

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...high-tech abortion drug being freely sold over the counter in the state, may usher in an era of do-it-yourself-abortions,// experts fear. Already, the sale is brisk as the tablets sell like laxatives, they claim, and even as the pharmaceutical concerns treat the city gynaecologists to five-star meals ostensi...

Niacin Safe for Diabetics

...ses of extended-release niacin.// The finding runs counter to previous research, which showed niacin adversely affects blood sugar levels in diabetics. Certain studies,show that the researchers used high doses of the medication. Their study, conducted among 150 patients who were assigned to take either a 1...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...gen for Stroke Trial (WEST) is the recent study to counter long-held notions// about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, on the heart and blood vessels. Catherine Viscoli, a research scientist University of Yale, said that a lot of people thought estrogen was a magic pill. So-called observ...

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

... 10 different food types purchased from behind the counter at a local grocery store. They were able to grow cultures of the H. pylori on about one third of the samples of the chicken, shrimp, pork, crab, clam and fish. The action or result of inflicting loss or pain a more accurate follow-up, they then condu...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

... as the antihistamines that are available over the counter today." said Robert Seidman, WellPoint's chief pharmacy officer. Anti-allergy medications have been linked to side effects in some users that include reduced alertness, nausea and headache. By prescription, the drugs cost about $80 per month versu...

Headache splitter

...iption, they may be a better choice than over- the counter pain relievers, which can trigger rebound attacks in chronic sufferers....

New HIV cases resist drugs

...will have ever-lessening chances of using drugs to counter AIDS. Richman and colleagues tested blood samples from 1,647 men and women. They used a test to show how the virus responded to the many available drugs used to treat HIV. Of these, 78 percent carried virus that resisted at least one drug. Just over ...

Mislabeled Body-building Steroid Supplements

... events. It is clear from this study that over the counter steroid supplements are mislabeled....

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

...discount war. The other followed with discounts to counter threats from Subiksha....

The best treatment for migraine

...s of drugs known as the triptans are known to help counter the unpleasant symptoms of a migraine headache. Since there are seven different triptan drugs available, it is very diffcult to choose the drug. Researchers at the University of Netherlands have carried out an analysis of all the clinical trials ...

Acne may protect against infections

...misery of a disfiguring condition, may actually be counter productive in other ways. "If acne is eliminated we may begin to pay a much higher price as the incidence of certain cancers starts to rise. "One day we may all be popping pills of P. acnes in a bid to stay healthy."...

Over-The-Counter Drugs May Prevent Alzheimer's

...n over-the-counter pain relievers commonly used to counter the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis also may cut the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. In addition to their anti-inflammatory properties, the drugs seem to selectively reduce levels of a harmful protein linked to the neurodegenerativ...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

Over the counter pain medications such as aspirin, acetaminophen(paracetamol) etc., is now identified to be the cause of chronic headache in children. A team of Israeli researchers who treated 26 adolescents, found that the average number of tablets taken by each pa...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

... so it is the ying, and you need something yang to counter it," says Zhu....

Contraceptives via Internet

...and in most cases these are not available over the counter but surprisingly these are now available through the Internet. However it takes up to two weeks for the delivery of these contraceptives after placing an order through the Internet. Investigators from the University of Washington in Seattle posed a...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...biting rheumatoid arthritis by using antibodies to counter inflammation-causing cytokines. There are, however... the disease. Naked DNA vaccination technology may counter these undesirable effects. This consists of introducing engineered genes based on the culprit peptid...

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