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Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...nd Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a letter to Kennedy. The measure did not include creation of a path for FDA approval of generic biotech medicines, but Kennedy expected that would be added later. The Senate committee also voted 11-9 to amend the bill to subject medical marijuana to FDA s...

MS Drug Helps Reduce Vision Loss

...FIRM and SENTINEL studies showed that low-contrast letter acuity eye chart testing is effective for assessing visual outcomes in future MS clinical trials, which have not typically included visual testing components despite vision loss being a main disability of MS. Source-Eurekalert/L...

FDA Urgently Warns Consumers About Health Risks of Potentially Contaminated Olives

...and and Vantia, and have codes that start with the letter "G" and are followed by 3 or 4 digits. All sizes of cans, glass jars and pouches of Cerignola, Nocerella and Castelvetrano type olives are affected. Symptoms of botulism include general weakness, dizziness, double vision, trouble with speaking or ...

Rajasthan Directs Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Names

... medicines by their generic names.// An official letter has been issued directing doctors in all governmen...generic medicines, so now we have written a formal letter and have communicated to them that failure to do so would attract stern action," Rajasthan's Medical...

Doctors Advised: Don’t Ignore Deat

..., some doctors may be wary of penning a condolence letter to a deceased patient’s family, says Dr Roger Alle...in the hands of lawyers, but surely not the simple letter of condolence,' Dr Allen says. 'Such letters from doctors are now infrequent. People are expecte...

FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products

...ling, at which time a Dear Healthcare Practitioner letter was sent by Lilly. In 2006, the warning was upgraded to a black box warning, the FDA’s strongest form of warning, because of new data concerning risks of heart valve damage. FDA today is issuing a Public Health Advisory (PHA) detailing the removal ...

Karnataka Wants to Make HIV Screening Mandatory for Couple Before Marriage

...ncil on March 26 that the government had written a letter to the federal government suggesting such a legislation. He said that there were several instances in which unsuspecting women had married HIV+ men. To avoid such tragedies blood tests could be made mandatory, he suggested. According to the late...

More Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the NHS

...g about medical politics in the UK has published a letter from Professor Allan Templeton, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists that states 'The completed forms have been particularly difficult to assess and score and seem incapable of allowing the identification of the more able do...

UK to Pull Pseudoephedrine

...ients. The MHRA has issued a public consultation letter seeking opinion on the proposed restrictions, which would see the nasal decongestants converted to prescription-only and a reduction in pack size by the end of 2007. The move comes in response to the growing illicit use of OTC ephedrine- and pseudo...

HIV Testing Improves After Withdrawal of Consent Letter

...rawal of a procedure which insisted on the consent letter for AIDS testing. The monthly rate of HIV testing ...System decided not to stress for a written consent letter for testing HIV. The average number of positive HIV tests also rose to 30.6 from 20.6 after this p...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

... caused patient care equipment to malfunction. A letter to the editor published in the journal details the first known case of a portable CD player causing an abnormal electrocardiographic (ECG) recording within a hospital setting. The recording returned to normal when the CD player, which the patient was...

Using Morphine to Hasten Death Is a Myth, Says Doctor

...rson’s life is a myth, argues a senior doctor in a letter to this// week’s BMJ. It follows the case of Kelly Taylor, a terminally ill woman who went to court earlier this month for the right to be sedated into unconsciousness by morphine, even though it will hasten her death. Mrs Taylor’s request to us...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...sia accounts for 31,000. Chakrabarti said: "In a letter to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya we have written that the only way to tackle rabies effectively and economically is to vaccinate the stray dogs. Since the days of killing stray dogs in a cruel and futile exercise are over we can at best steri...

Make Dental Care Affordable for the Working Poor

...affordable// for the working poor in Ontario. A letter has been written to the minister by a Chief Dentis...proposal yet. Instead, the Minister has passed the letter to Community and Social Services Minister Madeleine Meilleur, despite her ministry not being involve...

NRI Fights for HIV Child Who was Refused Treatment

...rus from transfusion of contaminated blood. In a letter to West Bengal Health Minister Surya Kanta Misra, Saha drew the attention of the minister to the incident of medical failure, triggering some action. 'We have got a formal complaint today (Friday) from an NGO called Human Development Institute. We ...

Pepsi to Put Caffeine Content on Labels

...eine content on labels," said CSPI yesterday, in a letter to Coca-Cola's president and chief operating officer, Muhtar Kent. "Until FDA acts, we believe that every food company whose foods contain caffeine, whether it occurs naturally or artificially, should disclose milligrams of caffeine voluntarily. In...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

...n the BRCA1 gene, meaning locations where a single letter in a string of DNA differed from the sequence found in the general population. This mutation caused an amino acid residue change in the protein produced by the gene. “Some of these types of variations can put a woman at greater risk for developing ov...

Hospital for ‘special’ People Under Investigations for Sexual Abue

... The issue came about when a former patient sent a letter of complaint to the North and West Belfast Trust and Eastern Health and Social Service Board, informing them that, an older patient had sexually abused him, when he was a teenager and staying at the hospital. The officials of the Health Board then...

Site Called Safe Two Years After Anthrax Death

...he building, and the case remains unsolved. In a letter to the Palm Beach County Health Department, federal officials said the building could be "safely reoccupied" and normal activities resumed. The department expects to lift the quarantine by next week. The cleanup began in July 2004. The building w...

The Search for Organ Donors

...would increase the organ donation pool. In their letter to the MJA, Dr Mitchell Lawlor and his colleague, ... Australia put forward by NSW researchers in their letter to the MJA. Associate Professor Michael Levy, Director of the Sydney Centre for Health Research i...

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