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Technology Changes in Glucose Monitoring Implants

...imits set by the FDA. These implants are not to be intended as an alternative to traditional self-monitoring o...lood glucose. The FDA cautions: 'These devices are intended to serve as an adjunct, supplying additional information on glucose trends that are not available fr...

Glaxo Files Cancer Drug For Approval With FDA

...at Tykerb will be similar to Avastin, a Roche drug intended for colorectal, lung or breast cancer. Advanced trial for Tykerb on its efficacy against neck and head tumors will commence soon. Jean-Pierre Garnier who heads Glaxo Smithkline said that the drug will be given to people who have just had surgery a...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Diseased Limbs

.../VP16, is a genetically modified form of the gene, intended to boost its active properties. The scientists theorized that HIF-1a may normalize oxygen levels in the cells by increasing interactions among multiple cytokines and genes that contribute to cell growth and facilitate survival of tissue damaged by re...

E.U. Panel Backs Novartis' Mock-up Pandemic Flu Vaccine

... Focetria is a mock-up pandemic influenza vaccine, intended for the prevention of influenza during an officially declared pandemic situation, once the pandemic viral strain has been included. It is the second mock-up pandemic influenza vaccine to receive a positive opinion from the Committee. Mock-up pandem...

Baby Food Recalled in Singapore After US Alert

...rd it or return it to the retailers. The food is intended for babies 6 months or older. Botulism usually causes illness within 18 to 36 hours of exposure. Initial indication of illness in infants is decreased frequency or absence of stools. Source-IANS...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...M and perfect and imperfect use, and which defines intended and unintended pregnancies, classifying them according to the couples’ intentions before conception.” The researchers selected data from a cohort of 900 women who were part of a much larger study of 1,599 women using STM, which was conducted by the...

Verdict Against Wyeth Pharma in Prempro Case

...ro to have caused breast cancer in her. Prempro is intended as a hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Nelson has been taking this drug for six years. She later developed breast cancer and has undergone double mastectomy and is being treated with chemotherapy and radiation. According to the att...

Wyeth Pharma Wins Law Suit

...in the market for quite some time. These drugs are intended to lessen the menopausal symptoms in women. Rush claimed that she had taken premarin and premro believing in the cardiovascular benefits of the drug. Meanwhile the Women's Health Initiative by the National Institutes of Health is keen to probe the ...

Doctors Still Deny Older Patients Tests and Treatment

...Participants were specifically quizzed about their intended management of 72 fictional patients with angina, using a specially devised computer programme, and face to face structured interviews. The fictional patients were all aged between 45 and 92, with varying degrees of severity of heart problems. Head ...

Reading Hidden Intentions in Brain

...ity while subjects concentrated on their choice of intended mental action, but prior to execution of the actio...r according to their planned task, revealing their intended action. The researchers found that during the delay between the subjects' choice of task and exec...

Anti-Aging Powers of Enzyme Sirtuins

...e unwanted side effects because in addition to the intended target, the drugs also hit other biologically active molecules that you don't want to affect," he says. "This nicotinamide-binding site we've identified appears to be unique to the sirtuins, so that if we're able to design a molecule to target it, it...

FDA Clears Breast Cancer Specific Molecular Prognostic Test

...the MammaPrint had been properly validated for its intended use. Agendia submitted data from a study using tumor samples and clinical data from 302 patients at five European centers. These studies confirmed that the test was useful in predicting time to distant metastasis in women who are under age 61 and ...

U S Government Allows Non-prescription Diet Pill

... eighteen years of age and above. This drug is not intended for diabetics and for people who have undergone organ transplantation. Dr Charles Ganley who is the director of non-prescription products at FDA insisted that this pill should be used along with diet and exercises. JYT...

New Inhaler is Child's Play

...ether a child has inhaled a full dose, and is also intended to motivate the child to continue inhaling. The silicone balloon and outer chamber design features also serve another purpose, tackling the problem of electro-static charge common with plastic spacer devices. Plastic spacers can become electro-sta...

Call for a National 'Drugs Funding Program' for Cancer Treatment in Canada

...ance when they are young. More research is also intended to find “biomarkers” to identify patients likely to respond to a particular drug in order to avoid treatment of people who will not benefit from the medication, said Dr. William Hryniuk, an oncologist. Meanwhile the unfortunate ones continue to su...

European Medical Research Still Ignoring Women

...the recent EU clinical trials directive, which was intended to harmonise practice across member states. More education of the importance of gender differences in health is needed, say the authors to ensure that research is properly designed and evaluated for the benefit of patients and doctors. Source-New...

South Dakota Hospital Receives $400 Million from a Philanthropist

...x Valley Hospital at South Dakota. //This money is intended for research in health care, medical education and children’s health. Sioux Valley Hospital has already received $16 million from Sanford in the year 2003 to support a programme in the children’s wing of the hospital. Sanford’s donation in the cu...

HIV Spread May Be Arrested By A New Compound

...the body against HIV virus. All along, the drugs intended for HIV infection targets the virus replication. But this compound appears to work differently and counters the mutating capability of HIV virus. This team plans to go further deep into this research focusing on the molecular mechanisms of 2-5AN6B an...

President’s Address on the ‘Tele-Radiology’ Set Up of Krst

...nstalled in the country, over the last decade were intended for on-call purposes, the past two years have seen a rapid increase in the use of tele-radiology to link hospitals and affiliated satellite facilities, other primary hospitals, and imaging centers. This has been possible due to the maturing of a numb...

Osteoporosis Does Not Spare Men Either

... Journal (CMAJ). Dr. Khan said the CMAJ paper is intended to make physicians aware of the fact that they can no longer overlook diagnosing osteoporosis in their male patients. "That's the bottom line. We want to bring all the research we have to the forefront and we want to bring it to the desk of Canadian ...

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