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Intro of Pneumococcal Vaccines: Experts Urge Commitment From Industry

... licensed and in use in over 60 countries and that formulations containing additional serotypes of the organism that are also relevant for developing countries are under development. The WHO considers pneumococcal vaccines to be a priority and recognises the urgency to make these vaccines available for children i...

Elements In Grape fruit Juice Combine Lethally with Certain Drugs, leading to potentially dangerous side effects, study.

...ally, it may be possible to add furanocoumarins to formulations of certain drugs that tend to be poorly or erratically absorbed to improve their oral delivery.' Source:Eureka Alert...

India To Estimate The Number Of Children Infected With HIV/AIDS

... opinion that the lack of paediatric anti-HIV drug formulations is a big obstacle. While stating that anti-HIV therapy involves a combination of drugs, she said that there are no combination tablets tailored for young children. This she feels makes treatment difficult to administer. Explaining that about 30% of...

Concerta, Drug Used in ADHD Treatment Less Likely To Result In Abuse

...esent study examined the delivery of two different formulations of methylphenidate and compared the abuse potentia...slow release formulation. Although both the drug formulations were found to be effective in treating ADHD symptoms, the researchers documented diversity in levels...

Health Minister Promises Strict Quality Control On Herbal Medicines

...als are not there and all ingredients of classical formulations are mentioned on the bottles. "We need strict quality control," he said. Source; IANS...

Drug Makers Banned From Providing Gifts To Doctors

...tempt to prevent such unethical exchanges, certain formulations have been adopted in the July 2002 guideline. According to the guideline, the maximum permissible valve of the gift should not exceed $100 and should be relevant to the clinical practice of the physician. A recent study, published in the Journal of...

Babies Are Treated With Untested Drugs

...ms, and the weight and height of the child. Proper formulations are required when treating babies, according to these companies. Most of the doctors in the country who treat children are well experienced, and they are guided by the British National Formulary for Children....

Self-Prescribed Vitamins And Herbal Remedies Can Do More Harm Than Good

The common belief that medicinal formulations based on alternative and complementary medicine are tested before they can be approved for use has been accounted for misuse of these products by Australian citizens // .More than 50% of the Australian population have been using alternative medicine...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...h Introgen Therapeutics to market oral health care formulations specifically designed to fight against pre-cancerous //conditions in the oral cavity as well as oral cancer. Towards this end Colgate purchased $20 million of Introgen shares with exclusive rights over the products that are produced by Introgen. In...

Lower doses of oral contraceptives helpful in treating acne

...spirenone in monophasic, triphasic and combiphasic formulations used to treat acne in women. Open-label and comparative studies beginning in the 1980s were the first to demonstrate objective and subjective reductions in the incidence of acne, severity of existing acne and seborrhea. Placebo-controlled trials have...

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

...teria and fungi. SIDE EFFECTS of ZYVOX: ZYVOX formulations are contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity. Myelosuppression which causes anemia, leucopenia, pancytopenia, and thrombocytopenia has been reported in patients receiving Linezolid. Treatment involving ZYVOX should be discontinued if patient...

India To March Ahead in The Global HealthCare Competition

...r 75,000 ayurvedic, 50,000 unani and 15,000 siddha formulations during the next year. Eleven countries, including the US and Britain, have signed agreements with India to access the database being developed. The data on traditional medicines will be available in English, French, Spanish, Japanese and German.This ...

Indian Pharmaceutical Industries Stops Manufacturing And Sale Of Valdecoxib

...a recently. We had stopped producing and marketing formulations containing Valdecoxib in India. We have recalled all the existing stocks from the market”. Glenmark has plans of replacing Valdecoxib with other alternate molecules for treatment of pain relief. He said, “Our pain management portfolio has several ot...

HRT Not That Risky For Breast Cancer

...s the cumulative risk to 7.7%, while estrogen only formulations have a minimal effect on risk of breast cancer, even with extended use. Studies estimate one half of Australian, European, or American women taking hormone replacement therapy are taking combined preparations. “Although we found the additional brea...

Drug Prices in India to be Monitored - NPPA to Tie up with ORG

...ecently stepped up the monitoring of non-scheduled formulations in an effort is to be more fruitful with the introduction of the proposed computerisation of its day-to-day work. The also says that it intends to seek more data from ORG-IMS - a consulting firm specializing in research to intensify monitoring of dr...

Ban On Indian Ayurvedic Drugs In Canada

...ifying them and for processing them into different formulations hence making all the medicines manufactured by them safe for human consumption....

Maintaining a Pharma index could help track price fluctuations

...em of price revisions based on the retail audit of formulations is not quite effective. Drug price watchdog National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is now in discussions with ORG-IMS on the modalities of the price index and it is expected that the index will reflect the prices of 100 medicines represen...

Drug regulatory officials giving the nod for sale of Unapproved drug formulations in India

...er and pain the health ministry admitted that drug formulations unapproved by India’s drug regulatory agency and n...d to the court indicated that dozens of unapproved formulations of nimesulide combined with various other drugs, such as analgesics, anti-allergy drugs, muscle rela...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

...urrent study. Babies who are raised on the infant formulations show rapid weight gain from the first week after birth only. This weight gain may continue and may lead to a strong tendency of becoming obese for life. The study was done on a group of American babies who were raised on baby formula. These people w...

Presence of substandard drugs can pose concern for patients

...cross the European continent, has found only three formulations that match the safety and quality standards. The drug streptokinase is used for its anti-clotting effect and if administered after a cardiac arrest, it can increase the chances of survival by over 25%. The study showed that medications could only r...

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