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Hostility breeds against Homeopathy in England following new regulations

... now possible to market homoeopathic remedies with licensed labels which describe the name and therapeutic application of remedies in question. This decision created a furore among conventional medical professionals who have written off homoeopathy as ‘mumbo jumbo’ and claim that this move would only legitimi...

Delhi journalism student commits suicide

... Police said that Mrinalini had used her father's licensed gun. Initial investigations suggest that the second year student of Madhubala College of Communication and Electronic Media was facing difficulties in her studies, which could have led her to commit suicide. "We have not found any suicide note. W...

A Vaccine against Cancer

...ther trials prove successful, the vaccine could be licensed for use against kidney cancer within three years. Experts have claimed that the data appears to indicate that “gene therapy” vaccine could prove an effective treatment for a whole range of cancers. The new vaccine, TroVax works in a way totally diff...

Show me your pet, and I’ll tell you, who you are

...charged with drug (crimes) than owners of low-risk licensed dogs," said Jaclyn Barnes of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre. Truly, birds of a feather flock together!...

TV nutritionist Banned from Sale of Sex Aids

...search Ltd in their products. However since only licensed medicines can be advertised, they were violating MHRA norms. Ms McKeith s credentials as a scientist came under suspicion as it was revelead that she had obtained a PhD from the non-accredited American Holistic College of Nutrition in the United Stat...

Private health clinics to be regulated

...ys private facilities will be able to provide only licensed uninsured services. Besides the legislation will also include a contract with the province that will formally permit them to operate; there will also be strict guidelines to disallow any out of turn insured services to patients with payment. The Ha...

Highly-Concentrated Botulinum Preparation Can Result in Severe Illness

... the article. Two botulinum toxin preparations are licensed in the United States by the U.S. Food and Drug Adm... laboratory research, labeled accordingly, and not licensed or intended for human use. Clinic staff had diluted a 100-μg vial of pure neurotoxin with diluent ...

New Imaging System Surpasses Mammography In Detecting Breast Cancer

... had developed the system and the// University has licensed the technology to Koning Corporation giving it the rights to make, use and sell the scanners. The National Cancer Institute along with some private investors has funded the Development. While commenting on the new technology, Dr. Joshua Kalowitz, c...

Using Heart Stents Tends to Form More Clots

...Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, are the only two licensed companies in the fray having the major share of revenue generated from sale of stents. Medtronic Inc. and, Abbott Laboratories are also waiting to enter the U.S market by the year 2007-2008. MST...

Breast Cancer Prevention Using Abortion Drug Considered

... the journal, 'Science'.Mifepristone or RU486 is a licensed drug that blocks the hormone progesterone. In pregnancy, progesterone is the hormone that helps to maintain pregnancy. If it is depleted the developing fetus can get expelled from the body. The recent research shows that if the progesterone levels ...

Researchers Develop Basis For Experimental Melanoma Treatment

..., a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company, licensed the radiolabeled monoclonal antibody technology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The company intends to begin testing it as a metastatic melanoma treatment in small human clinical trials in 2007. According to the American Cancer Society,...

A Nurse’s Job Is Nerve Breakin

...y 19,000 nurses, which included registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and registered psychiatric nurses. The overall observation was that nurses face a variety of physical and emotional challenges in a demanding and hectic workplace and it’s certainly affecting their well-being. The statistics show...

GGC - A New Ingredient To Fight Ageing

...tive process for manufacturing GGC, which has been licensed to pharmaceutical company, Biospecialties Australia. A newly expanded manufacturing plant at Mayfield, near Newcastle, will produce GGC. It is expected that GGC will be used as an active ingredient in foods, health care, toothpastes, dietary supple...

NRI Doctor's R&D Model in India to Slash Cost of Drugs

... have passed through clinical trials and have been licensed in India, the same data could be used to obtain a European licence so that they could be sold to the NHS as well," the report said. Shaunak told the newspaper that it was time that the monopoly on drug invention and production by multinational cor...

New Therapy to Treat Patients With Severely Elevated Cholesterol Levels

...dation. Due to the success in this study, Penn has licensed the drug to Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc for further development as AEGR-733. Patients who suffer from homozygous FH typically respond poorly to standard drug therapy and have a very high risk of premature cardiovascular disease. Homozygous FH is...

New Lung Cancer Vaccine Headed for Bigger Trial

...nded by Cancer Research UK, and the technology was licensed to be developed by Canadian biotech firm Biomira. Now over 1,300 patients worldwide will help test the vaccine that works by stimulating the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells. The vaccine is aimed at the non-small cell type of lun...

The Odds Of Stopping Smoking

...d only the third, after NRT and bupropion,// to be licensed in the USA for smoking cessation. The new anti-smoking drug varenicline was first licensed for use in the UK on 5th December 2006. An early Cochrane Review' of its effectiveness shows that it...

Swedish Biotech Licenses HIV Drug to China for Development

...gy company Medivir announced yesterday that it has licensed its experimental non-nucleoside// reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), code-named MIV-160, to the Chinese company Guangdong Lantai Viewland Pharmaceutical for the China region. Medivir will retain the worldwide rights to the product. Guangdong...

Osteopathic Medical Education Will Help With Shortages

...teopathic Medicine (DO) is a physician trained and licensed to practice the full range of medicine and surgery in all 50 states. DOs focus on the whole person and consider all facets of a person's life when treating illness, disease and injury. In addition to using all forms of standard medical treatment, DOs...

WHO Awards Prequalification Status to the First UAE Approved Vaccine

... rotavirus infection. The vaccine has already been licensed in 90 countries and 11 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed since its first launch in Mexico in 2004.The UAE was one of the first countries to register for this vaccination and is the first country in the Middle East to have this vaccin...

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