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Billions of Dollars Saved in U.S. By Polio Vaccination

...r Advisor and an expert on polio said, “This study documents the extraordinary power of vaccines not only as highly effective tools to prevent disease, disability, and death, but to provide enormous economic savings to society.” Although the last case of paralytic polio from wild poliovirus occurred in the ...

FDA To Reconsider Standards for Reviewing Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives

FDA in documents released Thursday announced it is reconsidering its standards for reviewing the failure rate of new oral contraceptives with lower doses// of estrogen and progestin, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, higher pregnancy rates ...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation to File Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...infections, among men. The group in draft legal documents said, "Pfizer has created and contributed to the p...existence of," erectile dysfunction. AHF in the documents also cited several recent ads, including a 2005 newspaper ad that included a smiling man asking, "Wh...

FDA Finds Animal Cloned Food to Be Safe

... agency recently requested public comment on three documents regarding the safety of animal cloning—a draft ris...FDA can consider public comments and publish final documents on the subject. The deadline for comments is April 3. Parties can submit comments electronically a...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...overtone, many hospitals fail to produce relevant documents related to the kidney transplants Silver Lining A monitoring body called the ‘Organ Watch’ was kick started by University professors, two of whom are from UC at Berkley and the other two from the University of Columbia. The main aim of t...

More Bones of Aborted Fetuses Recovered from Hospital Premises

... that police were investigating the matter and all documents were being examined. "We have sought complete details of the matter from the district administration and no one found guilty would be spared," said Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Welfare Minister Kusum Mehdel. Ratlam District Collector J.L. Malpa...

Cancer-hit Geelani to Travel Abroad for Specialized Treatment

...iagnosed with renal cancer, is awaiting his travel documents to go to the US or Britain// for specialized treatment. The chairman of the breakaway faction of the Hurriyat Conference underwent a biopsy and other medical examinations at the Apollo Hospital here Monday. "Doctors have diagnosed that Geelani su...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

.... The latter has to verify the authenticity of the documents ? Hospitals are required to present all details of the live- and cadaver-transplant taking place within their precints. Corneal transplants are exempted. ? State organ transplant authorization committee to comprise of police officials, revenue of...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...g a mission years long?Sex is not mentioned in any documents and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Wi... lot of debate about it,' he predicts. There are documents that spell out some health policies in detail, such as how much radiation astronauts can be exposed ...

Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk

...-processing occurred. All of Galliker's processing documents indicate that the proper procedures were followed. Only this one product is involved. Production of this product will continue while this incident is investigated. Products having any other code date are not affected. Retailers are asked to pull-...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...rly. According to several scientific studies and documents available at EPA, Nonylphenol imitates estrogen, and varieties of male fishes exposed to this chemical become part male and part female, producing female egg proteins. The after-effects on humans are however still unknown. Even at low levels, NPEs ...

Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

Atlanta - A new report released today documents the explosive growth of smoke-free air laws worldwide and finds that more than 200 million people are now protected by laws that require smoke-free air in workplaces and public places. The report concludes that the momentum behind smoke-free air law...

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

... an email or telephone call to ensure no important documents were overlooked. Guidance, where it existed, was found to be extremely limited in scope and either failed to address key concerns or did not take into account the full range of functions of mobile phones. Concerns relevant in other contexts were al...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

... against it for over three million dollars. In the documents filed with the court case, the patients family alleged the Herbal Magic weight-loss program caused Jane's potassium levels to plummet, a condition called hypokalemia, which in turn triggered the cardiac arrest. Herbal Magic is currently Canada's ...

Minorities Prefer Counseling and Prayer to Drugs for Treating Depression

... journal General Hospital Psychiatry. This study documents that, overall, ethnic minorities hold attitudes toward depression and depression treatment that are distinct from those of white participants, Givens said. The findings are important because studies show that while minority and white populations su...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

...andards, we found the prescriptions in the ancient documents not only compared with pharmaceutical preparations of today but that many of the remedies had therapeutic merit," he said. The medical documents, which were first discovered in the mid-19th century, showed that ancient Egyptian physicians treated w...

Sylvester Stallone Admits He Tried to Smuggle Banned Growth Hormone to Australia

...00 ($91,600) and five years in prison. Prosecution documents said Stallone had marked "no" on a customs declaration form that asked if he was bringing restricted substances into the country. But an X-ray of bags belonging to his entourage uncovered the bottles of Jintropin, which is made by Chinese firm Gene...

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

...ofessor of management in FSUs College of Business, documents that Americans work attitudes have been affected as the cost to fill a tank of gas has nearly doubled over the past few years. In his research, approximately 1,000 full-time employees were asked to note how gas prices have affected their disposable s...

Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk

...-processing occurred. All of Galliker's processing documents indicate that the proper procedures were followed. Only this one product is involved. Production of this product will continue while this incident is investigated. Products having any other code date are not affected. Retailers are asked to pull-...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...g a mission years long?Sex is not mentioned in any documents and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Wi... lot of debate about it,' he predicts. There are documents that spell out some health policies in detail, such as how much radiation astronauts can be exposed ...

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