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'Cocaine' Turns 'Censored' and Remains 'energy Drink'

...legal alternative" to compete in a rapidly growing market for energy drinks worth more than 3.5 billion doll...Redux claimed the drink had made inroads by taking market share from beverages including Red Bull, RockStar and Monster, which also are loaded with caffeine a...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...f "about twice a month" in order to buy the black market hormones that enlarge her breasts, raise the pitch... unregulated doses of hormones bought on the black market and pump industrial silicone -- the same stuff used in brake fluid -- into their breasts. Many have ...

ENDEAVOR III Trial Reports Key Findings on New-generation Stent

...is 1 of 5 studies gathering the data necessary for market approval of the new stent by the Food and Drug Administration....

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...so, 170,000 cases were consumed every year and the market had grown by 40 percent last year. "You can vote at the age of 18. Girls can even get married at the age of 18. Yet the legal drinking age is 25. This is also part of the Indian paradox," he said. "Our finance minister and commerce minister are b...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...2003 also, PM Beef had similarly recalled from the market 1,126 pounds of beef trim for suspected contamination although the two incidents are not connected. Workers at Lunds and Byerly's have voluntarily removed ground beef off the shelves at all their 21 retail outlets. The chain has appealed to all its...

Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

...er examination. MedImmune sought FDA approval to market the spray for children ages 1 to 5 without a history of wheezing or asthma. According to FDA documents, four studies conducted by MedImmune found the drug was effective against Type A and B influenza viruses, including one trial that showed the vac...

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...l 2005 200 functional foods were launched onto the market and with a turnover of 316 million in 2005, the active health-drink market is one of the fastest growing in the UK. Current EU rules focus primarily on evaluating the safet...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

...dditions etc. Why not leave things as they are and market the modified bread to people who want it. Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, also noted important questions remained unanswered....

World Cities Join Hands to Combat Climate Change

... be provided by those five groups would double the market for energy retrofit in buildings. The five banks will work with energy efficiency specialists like Hannon Armstrong and CCI to work out a mechanism to deploy their capital worldwide. Honeywell, Johnson Controls Inc., Siemens and Trane will conduc...

FDA Approves Ranbaxys Allergy Drug

...US Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and market a pill to treat rhinitis, one of the most common ...y nose that do not seem to go away. Total annual market sales for the approved drug Fexofenadine Hydrochloride tablets were $931 million last year. "We ar...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...armaceuticals Inc.; and others expected to hit the market from the likes of Novartis AG and Novo Nordisk A/S will help push up treatment costs, the report said. Some newer drugs that act on new targets are increasingly being prescribed as first-line therapy and are frequently being used in combination wit...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...jority of weight-loss programs and products on the market are not effective, and warn that many are unsafe. Right now, anybody can set up a weight-loss centre and sell almost anything they want, says Arya Sharma, a professor of medicine at McMaster University who holds a Canada Research Chair in cardiovas...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

... potential spread of the H5N1 virus throughout the market chain, for example, through the collection of eggs and distribution of day-old chicks and feed, should be investigated, Domenech stressed. He recommended culling of birds in the affected areas in Bangladesh to prevent the disease from spreading. The ...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...ealth has such a poor record when it comes to post market drug safety," he says. "Regrettably it is incidents like this that demand legislative changes in the way FDA deals with drug safety. The Committee will address these dangerous shortcomings while writing legislation to reauthorize [prescription drug l...

Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning

...rch agreement is of great importance to the health market in general. The combination of these two research teams provides strong impetus for creating a safe, effective and low-cost solution to this pernicious consumer health risk. Food-safety authorities in Europe and in North America recently released d...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

... world's most enthusiastic smokers, with a growing market of about 320 million dollars making it a magnet for multinationals. Chinese cigarettes are also among the cheapest in the world and a packet can cost as little as $0.08. 'The death toll from diseases associated with tobacco is around one million Ch...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

...h safe and effective. This could be an even larger market than LASIK encompassing the baby boomers who potentially have more disposable income." Dello Russo, who played a prominent role in the clinical trials as a former FDA researcher by helping to develop and improve the laser surgery procedure now know...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...ous is Nestl, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain. It draws its supplies from as many as 75 springs located all over the US.Nestl's latest target is McCloud, located in the shadow o...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...rom the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market over-the-counter coated nicotine polacrilex gum USP, 2 mg (coated fruit) and 4 mg (coated fruit). The product will be marketed under store brand labels and is comparable to GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette(R) Fruit Chill(TM) coated gum, which is an aid...

New Drug, Other Trends To Double Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments

...ve smoking cessation products have helped to drive market growth. The market now dominated by GlaxoSmithKline with its Zyban smoking cessation treatment, and Schering-Plough / R...

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