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Iodex goes to SmithKline Beecham consumer Healthcare

...entity, GSK, would give more focus on prescription drugs and vaccines rather than over-the-counter (OTC) products. The officials said with this transfer of the Iodex brand, the entire promotion, marketing and distribution will be carried out by SKBCH, a leading player in the OTC segment. The Iodex brand ...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...reports' authors speculate that too many serotonin drugs could cause restricted blood flow to the brain. A...may be taking a double-dose of serotonin-enhancing drugs on a regular basis. Frequently used migraine medications that enhance serotonin belong to a group of...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...s the debut in the late '80s of the antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. About 30 percent of patients on these medications still have significant and problematic side effects, such as sexual dysfunction, insomnia and gastrointesti...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...etion of calcium in urine may be prescribed. These drugs may increase cholesterol and can cause bloating and other uncomfortable side effects. Men who develop kidney stones are often told to limit their dietary intake of calcium. But new research suggests that restricting animal protein and salt may be a ...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

...linical trials of aspirin and other “antiplatelet” drugs that help to prevent blood clots confirmed that as...ives a year,” he told. Aspirin and anti-platelet drugs are normally given to patients who have suffered a heart attack or stroke to prevent a recurrence. B...

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...r to new therapies for this hard-to-treat cancer - drugs which restore BRCA1 function, for example....

Panacea Biotech To Market Anthrax Vaccine

...ted to generate.// The vaccine is different from drugs such as ciprofloxacin currently being used in the treatment of anthrax. Ciprofloxacin is administered after a person has contacted anthrax. The vaccine develops immunity in the human body to anthrax bacillus. According to marketing director Rajesh, t...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

... singly and then in combination. Individually, the drugs inhibited cell growth by between 30 and 55 per cen...types of cancer. Eventually, these combinations of drugs may be used with conventional cell-killing drugs. Alternatively, conventional chemotherapy may be us...

Asprin aids in pregnancy

... They found that women who had taken anti-platelet drugs had a 15% reduced risk of pre-eclampsia, an 8% reduction in premature birth and 14% less chance of their baby dying in the womb. A spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said : "It appears from this systematic review ...

The winter worry

...lems. It is treatable, often with a combination of drugs and bed-rest, although if it cannot be controlled, the baby may have to be delivered prematurely....

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

Women who use fertility drugs to get pregnant can breathe a sigh of relief. A ne.../ The controversy over the link between fertility drugs and ovarian cancer developed about 10 years ago, when small, isolated pockets of women who had diffi...

Handbook cum diary on regulatory information

...e fees structure, and specifications of all banned drugs are all present in the diary. All necessary forms ...uch time on repeated inquiries. The list of banned drugs have been updated in such a way that the diary contains even the drugs which are brought under the l...

Organs made from cloned embryos

...need for ordinary transplants and avoid the use of drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ....

Final push to eradicate leprosy

...h almost two-thirds in India. A new combination of drugs known as multi-drug therapy can treat and cure leprosy. The drugs are distributed free to patients by WHO. Over the last decade 11 million people have been completely...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...he world's poorest countries where life prolonging drugs are not available to most sufferers....

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

The drugs control, health and industry departments in Andhra...s being worked out. // The entire services of the drugs control department as well as the state health and medical services departments will be facilitated ...

Risk Of Decongestants In Hypertensive Patients

...ced or ignored by many who assume over-the-counter drugs are safe for one and all. One big reason such warn...e decongestants can work against anti-hypertensive drugs that patients might take for their high blood pressure. There are over-the-counter cold and flu prod...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...e will probably be prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs as a result of guidelines issued last year, but a ...been considered candidates taking statin group of drugs for the primary prevention of cardiovascular problems. But the guidelines revised last year expand t...

Herbal Drug In Controversy

...rding to experts, the herb behaves like a class of drugs known as// benzodiazepines but is not chemically related. Benzodiazepines have been shown to be habit-forming when taken in high doses or for extended periods of time. While there is evidence of kava overuse or abuse in South Sea Island populations,...

Sun Pharma to launch chiral version of omeprazole soon

Many drugs have two or more forms of the same chemical entity but the molecules arranged differently in space. Of the isomers, only one generally offers all the therapeutic benefits with the others having side-effects. Isolation of benefits results in smaller d...

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