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Orissa found to be worst affected by the killer disease, AIDS

...408 sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics, 65 licensed blood banks and 15 blood component separation units would be set up soon in the state. A number of counseling centers, testing centers and community care centers would be set up in the state. Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) drugs are also being prov...

Relief For British MS Patients: Cannabis-Based Oral Spray

...y rheumatoid arthritis even though it is yet to be licensed in the UK. The Home Office has allowed the mouth s...We very much hope it will not be long before it is licensed for NHS prescription." A Department of Health spokesman said: "It is vital that we ensure that drug...

Are You Ill? Have A Hard Laugh!

What some Japanese newly licensed therapists do is no laughing matter. These laughi... recently passed their // examinations and are now licensed to make patients laugh to improve their immune system, and in general to help prevent illnesses, sai...

School Children Put To Risk Due To Shortage Of Nurses

...e with regard to the exact number of registered or licensed nurses working in schools. The staff of schools cannot be relied upon in case of emergencies. The National Association of School Nurses contends that the actual ratio is only one nurse for every 1,461 students. A survey conducted by the Centers fo...

Coroner Says Sativex Is Responsible For Death Of Patient

...he project is funded by the Diabetes UK, and it is licensed in Canada. The family of Mrs. Anderson insists upon a ban on the further trials of the drug, stating that the patient has been used as a guinea pig for an unsafe drug. ...

Australian Government To Stockpile Anti-Bird Flu Drug Relenza

...confirmed the order yesterday. The drug had been licensed by Biota to pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline, but Biota had alleged that GSK failed to market this properly. GSK has refuted this allegation. This fresh order makes it the third governmental order for Relenza since August this year. Biota boss P...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

...edic, Unani and Siddha from January 1, 2006. Every licensed manufacturer of herbal products in the country will have to declare the content of heavy metals on the containers before exports. ...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

... the next few days. Shanthaveerappa, who has been licensed to practice since 1972, can appeal the medical board's decision before a state administrative law judge or the state Supreme Court. Shanthaveerappa runs the Integrated Medical Specialist clinic and its website says its goal is to use a combination...

Diarrhea Vaccine Trials Promises Prevention of Rotavirus Infection

...e complication rate as well. "As vaccines become licensed and used in the US and Europe, we should expect to see a substantial reduction in winter hospitalizations, visits to doctors and clinics and parents' workdays lost to childhood diarrhea", said Dr Roger Glass and Dr Umesh Parashar, from the US Centers...

US Government Licenses New Hypertension Drug

The US Government has licensed Sildenafil to trade under the name Revatio for treating pulmonary hypertension. The University Hospital in Giessen’s pulmonary hypertension// specialist Ardeschir Ghofrani has revealed that Sildenafil is the first drug that can be administered as a p...

US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers

...cine, patented by Californian company Genelabs and licensed by GlaxoSmithKline, is to hit the market in 2007. In February 2000, the research unit announced a trial would be held with 8,000 volunteers from Lalitpur District adjoining Katmandu, with 3,000 of them being administered the vaccine or placebo. Ho...

Drug Firms To Produce Single Pill AIDS Treatment

...drugs required to produce a single pill. The three licensed drugs for AIDS will now be combined into a single salmon-colored tablet by the two pharmaceutical firms. The side effects of the drug will not be much while at the same time it will be highly effective. Test lots are already being produced at a manuf...

Respirator Can Improve Quality Of Life Of Motor Neurone Disease Patients

...f BBC News reported. At present just one drug is licensed to treat MND, an incurable disease of the nervous system. But this drug only extends patients' life by two to three months. A team of researchers of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Britain, found that the ventilator can help patients maintain...

Herceptin is the cure for early stages of breast cancer?

...se. But she was denied the drug because it was not licensed for early stage breast cancer and because her primary care trust had not budgeted for it. She threatened to take her case to the European court of Human Rights. Then her 12-year-old foster son, Ash who was chronically ill requested the Somerset Co...

Babies Are Treated With Untested Drugs

... prescribed to children in spite of them not being licensed for the purpose. Even asthma inhalers which are being given to children have not undergone proper tests with regard to children. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has to license the drugs as at present after the clinical trials ...

Judge Reserves Judgment In Cancer Drug Case

... Philip Havers contends that the drug is yet to be licensed for early stage breast cancer, nor has its safety and efficacy been certified by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). The policy of the PCT is also in conformity with the guidance of the Health Secretary, according to him. The judge...

New Chemical May Halt HIV Infection

...ientists at Brigham Young University, Utah, and is licensed to a company called Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals. Brigham Young University and Vanderbilt have jointly filed a patent on the compounds. The research is still at its early stages, and many years may pass before clinical trials are conducted. Edited (I...

NHS Says Government Advice Behind Refusal of Cancer Drug

... advice from their superiors.// Herceptin is not licensed for early stage breast cancer, but women in the UK are suing the NHS for its failure to provide the drug, which is known to improve their prognosis. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's lawyers told the court that Swindon trust's policy of only providi...

Devil in The Dock: Fraud Doctor Swindles Immigrants with Fake tests gets freaked out!

...doctor without license has been impersonating as a licensed medical practitioner and conducting fake medical tests on immigrants, providing them with false certificates and medical records. // He was slapped 106 felonies after his guilt was established, according o the prosecutors. Stephen Brian Turner, 51,...

Commercialization of drugs by fast tracking is a cause of concern

...ening condition while being treated. The drug was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2004 on the basis of short term results from two unpublished trials. The result was that when tested it was on 28 February 2005, recalled after three trial patients developed progressive multifocal leucoencep...

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