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Status of some prescription drugs

...tion drug usage has risen in recent years, due, to industry advertising. Pharmaceutical companies have spent nearly $1.9 billion to market their products directly to the public. "The drug companies are simply trying to make a profit. They are not trying to tell us what the best thing is for our health." sa...

FDA fish warning criticized

...ll amounts of fresh-caught fish once a week. Under industry pressure, the Food and Drug Administration softene... - only tuna has worrisome mercury levels. A tuna industry spokesman denied that the industry influenced the FDA's advisory. "Plenty of people, pediatricians, ...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...medications, in return for tens of millions in new industry fees. The industry has long funded a significant portion of the FDA’s drug review work. But for the first time, the agr...

The importance of vaccines

...ve them may actually be counterproductive, because industry must make a profit in order to provide the service. Rappuoli, Miller, and Falkow suggest more needs to be done on a worldwide basis to promote the use of vaccines and the development of new vaccines, with rich countries leading the way through econ...

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

The Canadian farm industry is facing a crisis that could quickly become as ca...ies have put a temporary ban on Canadian beef. The industry has ground to a halt. Meanwhile, Canadian authorities have moved swiftly to quarantine nine other ra...

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

... a positive development, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has said it will enable smaller and poorer nations to make full use of the flexibility in the WTO intellectual property rules in order to deal with diseases that ravage their population. The WTO yesterday had approved a deal to let the poorer nation...

New Drug to Stop Gambling!

...g is big business in America -- earning the gaming industry nearly $51 billion in net revenue each year. Like most addictions, once you start, it's hard to stop.// Now, a drug treatment could get gamblers back on their feet. Pulsing music. Flashing lights. And the elusive jackpots. That's what keeps gamblers...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...ed more than a decade to jousting with the tobacco industry over a prohibition that has swept cities and states across the country. Nearly 100 Massachusetts cities, including Boston, have adopted bans, and the state is poised to become the sixth with a blanket ban on smoking in virtually all public places. U...

Stroke Patients May Benefit By Wearing Cooling Helmets

...od example of how bright scientists and innovative industry technologists can collaborate to speed the delivery of emergency cardiovascular care interventions. This device, and others like it, may have wide applicability in the field.” Although the total number of patients in the two studies from Japan and ...

Presence of substandard drugs can pose concern for patients

...s being marketed at countries where the healthcare industry is not so stringent on the quality of the medications marketed. Researchers are of the opinion that the cases of counterfeit medications are high in the countries where the disease incidence is high and the public monitoring system is under pressure...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...t is therefore not likely that the pharmaceuticals industry will develop completely new drugs." Reference: The Lancet (vol. 365, May 2005). Contact: Professor Achim H?rauf hoerauf@parasit.meb.uni-bonn.de 49-228-287-5673 University of Bonn ...

Aggressive Tobacco taxation policy can reduce cigarette smoking

...power and attractive advertisements by the tobacco industry attracts more smokers. The World Bank predicts that population growth in China and India, will increase the number of smokers in low and middle income countries to more than 800 million in the next few years. Industrialized nations export cigarette t...

Low dose Radiation Exposure May Cause Cancer

...onducted in 15 countries involving 407,000 nuclear industry workers. It was estimated that the chronic exposure could lead to a 10 percent raised risk of death from all types of cancer and a 19 percent increase from leukemia. Dr Elisabeth Cardis, head of the radiation group at the International Agency for R...

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

...ng. The guidance also explains a new mechanism for industry to voluntarilysubmit research data to further the ... regulatory decision making, but will help FDA and industry gain valuable experience. FDA believes this approach will save time and resources and eliminate poss...

Listeria Food Poisoning Can Be Dangerous In Pregnant Women And Elderly

...ghter controls need to be adopted by both the food industry and consumers to limit the spread of this harmful food-borne bacterium. Foods that are usually associated with L. monocytogenes contamination are ready to eat food products such as -- red-meat, poultry-meat and fish, including frankfurters, paté, s...

Vitamin E May Not Reduce Risk Of Death Due To Heart Disease In Women

...can Medical Association (Vol 294, no1). From the industry point of view this study will provide a boost as the study does not report any adverse effects from the Vitamin E intake during the 10-year study. <br...

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers

...inational study was done involving 598 068 nuclear industry workers from 15 countries.// The study was done to...cancer risk among radiation workers in the nuclear industry to find out the risk of cancer occurrence after low dose exposure of radiation. The study recruits ...

Railway Station Contributes to Create Awareness on AIDS

...ion. But the migrant labour working in the granite industry is responsible for the spread and transmission of HIV in the district," Pasha a vendor on the station said: "I come across a lot of people who have sexually transmitted diseases, and I refer them to akka (sister)," ...

The Indian Government has given the nod to conduct Human volunteer trials inorder to develop preventive AIDS vaccines

...ical research facilities and strong pharmaceutical industry which has developed cheap and effective AIDS drugs that are exported across the globe....

Health care errors blamed for deaths

...nother mindset that is prevalent in the healthcare industry is the seemingly resistance to new technology, as the application of high-tech gadgets applied to deal with medical procedures and treatments are far less when compared to the latest software used in the hospital billing system. The healthcare worke...

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