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Biologics valuable treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease

...dentified or characterized, and many biologics are manufactured using biotechnology. Biological products often represent the cutting-edge of biomedical research and, in time, may offer the most effective means to treat a variety of medical illnesses and conditions that presently have no other treatments available...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

Gardasil, the new cervical cancer vaccine manufactured by Merck & Co., could be a potent weapon against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and one day prove effective in men too, commentators feel. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Gardasil is a safe and effective drug and it ...

Anti-smoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism: Study

...rsity of California-San Francisco . Varenicline, manufactured by Pfizer and approved as a smoking cessation aid in the United States and Europe in 2006, has been shown to reduce nicotine consumption by affecting the brain's reward system for addictive substances. The research team, noting that cigarettes and ...

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

...e handed out to alcoholics as well . The Pfizer manufactured drug, sold under the name Chantix, which has been used quite successfully by smokers , was tested to reveal the same effects in alcoholics too, of the furry kind, lab rats. Says Selena Bartlett, a University of California, San Francisco neuroscient...

Switzerland Approves Brain Cancer Vaccine

A U. S manufactured drug DCVax Brain, targeting brain cancer victims has found it first market in picturesque Switzerland . The Bothell-based biotech company Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. has released the worlds first vaccine that works by empowering the immune syste...

Man Hospitalised in Sicily With Allergic Reaction to Counterfeit Toothpaste

...ting in Italian and indicates that the product was manufactured in Brazil, Turkey, South Africa or Spain....

New Lifeline Express Train Inaugurated

...atory, X-Ray etc. The new coaches are designed and manufactured by Integral Coach Factory, Perambur with the cost of Rs. five crore approximately. In his vote of thanks, Shri J.P.Batra said that it has been the constant endeavour of Indian Railways to help the Impact India Foundation with logistic support to th...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

...ill represent an estimated 2.6 trillion dollars in manufactured goods by 2014, or about 15 percent of global manufactured goods output. In addition to the TSCA document, the agency issued papers for public comment pertai...

FDA Approves First Artificial Cervical Disc

...The brand approved, the Prestige Cervical Disc, is manufactured by Medtronic Sofamor Danek of Memphis. The approval of this artificial disc means that people with cervical degenerative disc disease now will have another surgical option for treating this condition," said Daniel Schultz, director, Center for Devi...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...rcinogens which have dogged its sister, chemically manufactured sweetners, saccharine and aspartame. In 10 years, plantations of stevia, which is native to northwest Paraguay, have grown from 350 to 1,500 hectares (865 to 3,700 acres). Officials hope to increase that 10-fold over the next five years through c...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...reports of botulism outbreak, hot dog chilly sauce manufactured in a Georgia facility are being withdrawn in USA. This is the first outbreak of botulism from commercially canned foods in nearly four decades. Health officials asked consumers and stores to discard 10-ounce cans of some leading brands like Cast...

Fake Drug Factory Busted in Orissa

...had already been sealed. The spurious medicines manufactured by Agarwal included paracetamol, the common anti-fever and pain-relieving drug, the official added....

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

...ce it was launched there in June 2006. Acomplia is manufactured by Sanofi-aventis, worlds fourth largest drug-makers. The drug is being appraised by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) for use on the NHS. However, it already has a European licence, meaning GPs can prescribe it to ...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...nored this robust body of evidence." Macugen is manufactured by Pfizer. The company's medical director David Gillen said: "Pfizer is very disappointed with this preliminary decision. Macugen has been shown to maintain vision in patients with all types of wet AMD and has a licence to reflect this." A spokesw...

Indian Antibiotic Faces Anti-dumping Duties in China

...anti-dumping duty of up to 37.7 per cent on Indian manufactured antibiotic sulfamethoxazole . The anti-dumping duty tax rate has been increased from 10.7 per cent to 37.7 per cent and the tax would be in effect for five years. Sulfamethoxazole is a sulfonamide bacteriostatic antibiotic and also serves as ...

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...ings and other train-set parts for young children, manufactured between January 2005 and April 2007, pose a danger...h have been painted red or yellow. The toys were manufactured in Chinese factories not restricted by a 1978 American ban on lead paint domestically. The recall ...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

... is 50 paise - the cost could be even cheaper when manufactured in bulk. "The idea to launch the two products in Assam is mainly to get a feedback from consumers and if required further develop them. Only then do we plan to hit the world market," Hazarika said. Several big companies from Britain, Australia an...

Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

... "More distressing is the fact that the condom is manufactured by a central government undertaking," said Vijayvargiya. Media reports claim that the Madhya Pradesh Drugs Control Department has already started an investigation into the sale of 'vibrating condoms'. However, the Controller of Food and Drug Admini...

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

...l drugs lamivudine and emtricitabine. Entecavir is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb and is marketed under the trade name Baraclude. The research team was led by Chloe Thio and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Robert Siliciano, both at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The analyses...

India's Wockhardt Launches Drug in US Market

.... The Cefprozil tablets, developed in-house, are manufactured at Wockhardt's US FDA certified formulation plant at Waluj in Maharashtra. The $650 million firm has a market capitalisation of over $1 billion and has major presence in the markets of the US, Britain, Ireland, Germany and France. It employs over ...

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