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Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

...l surely scores for the new vaccine pill. Grazax manufactured by Danish company ALK-Albello has been granted approval for sale in 27 countries including UK. Costs of treatment though run high. Hundreds of thousands of pounds an year will be incurred by the national health services when the pill is released f...

Quick –fix Solution: Spray-on a Condom

...s, owing to the ‘perfect fit’. The condom will be manufactured in several colors and strengths and is likely to be available in the market by 2008. <BR...

Fact Sheet on Polonium-210 - The Substance That Killed Former Russian Spy

...times more toxic than cyanide. Some commercially manufactured antistatic devices may contain as much as 500 micro-curies of polonium-210, theoretically enough radioactive material to kill 5,000 persons.5 However, this polonium is affixed in a gold foil amalgam; extremely sophisticated techniques and advanced te...

India To Register All Health Care Infrastructure: Ramadoss

...RI Scanner, which costs over Rs.90 million, can be manufactured in India in less than Rs.20 million, the minister added by way of example. Source-IANS...

Fear of Possible Harm Hinder Nanotech Development

...2014, Lux Research estimates that $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods will incorporate nanotechnology,' asserts Maynard. 'If the public loses confidence in the commitment-of governments, business, and the science community-to conduct sound and systematic research into possible risks, then the enormous potential o...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

...y approved vaccine for leprosy and is commercially manufactured by Cadila Pharmaceuticals in Ahmedabad. Talwar's group at AIIMS found the Mw organism among the collections in a tuberculosis hospital in Madras, now Chennai. The fact that it was a fast growing harmless organism that shared many of its antigens wi...

Novel Plans Of FDA To Monitor Safety Of Medical Devices

...script for identification on every piece of gadget manufactured by a firm to scrutinize and detect malfunctions and side effects that could be caused by the device. They also plan to revamp computer databases where complaints and problems faced by clients are registered and submission of complaints of defects on ...

Skin-patch vaccines may replace injectable ones in future…

...y himself or herself. It could be as simple as the manufactured vaccine being dispatched to people with instructions on how to stick it on to the skin. This type of vaccine may have several advantages like, it will not required to refrigerate them, as it is needle-less, there won’t be a risk of reuse or contami...

List of 886 Drug Prices that has been Reduced by Govt. of India

...ing the announcement had clarified that 'Medicines manufactured on or after October 2 may take four-six weeks to reach the retail counters.' A new Act, known as Drugs (Prices Regulation and Control) Act is proposed to be enacted to have effective control on prices, production, distribution and supply of medicin...

Mercury-Based Vaccine Ban Temporarily Suspended

...lays. The only mercury free children's vaccine is manufactured by Sanofi pasteur, and the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has written to them asking that they speed up production to meet the state's need. The waiver was issued at the request of the California branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Kaiser...

Party Pills Cause More Spills Than Thrills, and Can Even Kill!

...The active ingredient in the pills, BZP, initially manufactured as a de-worming medication for cattle, was discontinued due to the adverse reactions. Ross Boswell has warned that, untill the pill is proved safe, it would be best if people avoided use of the pill....

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

... world in making reductions in the salt content of manufactured foods and some children's foods have had their salt content reduced, but sadly many other manufacturers are still stuffing salt into their products and marketing them to children. "They need to take immediate action to reduce these unnecessary and v...

Medicines to Cost Less

... stocks that retailers had with them. "Medicines manufactured on or after Oct 2 may take four to six weeks to reach the retail counters," Paswan said. He disclosed that the government was working out a formula for fixing the prices of branded medicines to make them more affordable while protecting the interes...

Male Contraceptive Drug - Non Hormonal Alternative

...erm. During spermatogenesis when sperms are being manufactured in the testes, they are helped in their development into mature sperm by special tissue called Sertoli cells. Adherin acts by breaking the bond between the immature sperm and the Sertoli cells. Therefore the male hormones are not affected at all. Ad...

School of Medicine, GE Introduce Ultrasound Pilot Study

...of Medicine students with newly designed and newly manufactured ultrasound machines. Dr. Bob Honigberg of GE Healthcare’s Medical Affairs Group said the students have just begun an amazing four-year journey that will shape the future of healthcare. “Technologies such as ultrasound can be used to help detect d...

Hepatitis B Drug Tyzeka Approved By FDA

...ration gave its approval for Tyzeka (telbivudine) manufactured by Novartis Pharma to be used in the treatment of chronic Hepatitis B// (HBV). Clinical studies have shown that the drug does not have serious side effects and is usually well tolerated. Hepatitis B is a viral infection affecting the liver and infe...

Four deaths cause halt of flu vaccination in Israel

.... The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis manufactured the vaccine and the Israeli company Medici distributed it. The company has been asked by the Health Ministry to examine its laboratories, reports Israel's Army Radio. According to Israel's Channel 10 TV report of a Health Ministry meeting, the dire...

Genomic tests for better cancer treatment

... Nature Medicine that they made use of a gene chip manufactured by Affymetrix, in their test on tumour samples from various patients with different cancers like leukemia, ovarian, breast and lung cancers. The first clinical trial on 120 breast cancer patients is planned for next year. "With the new test, we thi...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...ased levels of hydrogen and methane. Rifaximin is manufactured by Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Funding for the study was also provided by Salix. The discovery related to the use of rifaximin for IBS was made at Cedars-Sinai by Pimentel. Cedars-Sinai holds patent rights to this discovery and has licensed rights to...

More Medicines Found To Contain Toxic Substance

...overed diethylene glycol in a sugarless government manufactured cough syrup//. The contaminant is thought to be responsible for the deaths of 22 people since July . Several others, most of them older people, have been hospitalised for kidney and nerve damage. The toxic chemical has been now detected in 3 more m...

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