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Biocon Launches Anti-Cancer Drug

...ould be priced at 40 percent of what similar drugs marketed by MNCs cost.// "Today we join the exclusive league of MAb developers worldwide. We want to be a key player in this segment," she added. She also told the drug was undergoing regulatory processes for South Asian markets, but the company would enter ...

Dabur Research to set up Drug Discovery Center in Oman

... potential for developing new products that can be marketed globally. "From our side we are ready to set up the venture with a likely initial investment of $10 million. But in five to seven years it would take to start getting results, we see the investment rising to over $100 million," said Mukherjee. Sh...

Georgetown University Heads Alternative Tobacco Project

..., and little bags of tobacco, currently being test marketed in the U.S., that users place beneath their upper lip. "Consumers should know if these products truly reduce exposure to carcinogens, and experience tells us this information will not be either forthcoming from the companies that manufacture them, o...

Vaccine for ear and sinus infections to be developed…

...e Prevnar was developed by a team at Rochester and marketed by Wyeth (WYE.N: Quote, Profile, Research). This vaccine provides protection in infants and kids against certain bacterial strains causing pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

European Regulators Investigate Common Painkiller Drugs

...i-inflammatories and including ibuprofen, commonly marketed as Nurofen. A recent version of the drug, Vioxx, was taken off the market in 2004 after it was linked with hundreds of US heart attacks. New research suggests there could be a similar risk in older versions of the drugs. Questions were also raise...

FDA Approves Vectibix for Colorectal Cancer

...er parts of the body.//Panitumamab, which is being marketed as Vectibix by Amgen Inc has been found to shrink ...t will be directly competing with Erbitux which is marketed by ImClone Systems and is approved for other cancers also. Vectibix causes less allergic reactions...

Enbrelr Enters Safer Zone After Recent Research

..., It is also less cumbersome for patients as it is marketed in convenient 25mg and 50mg syringes making it most adaptable for treatment purposes. Bruce Strober MD PhD, co director of the Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Center at New York University mentions that that these findings are very significan...

Clinton’s Nutrition Deal Cuts Junk Food on School Menu

...the food guidelines set under the agreement snacks marketed to schools wouldn't get more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight. This would translate into a ban on the regular-sized Snickers bar ...

Fresh Scare of Contamination in Pork Prompts 'Prompt' Recall by Authorities

...t were manufactured on September 13,18,19,2006 and marketed to retail and wholesale establishments in the state of Ohio , and Columbia have been discovered to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes This was established through microbiological testing. Following this discovery more than 1,178 pounds of ...

Inhibition of Colorectal tumor growth by Grape seed extract

...concentrations of these chemicals, they are widely marketed as a dietary supplement. Agarwal and his team of investigators were first to report, in 1999, that grape seed extract also has chemopreventive activity against skin cancer. Their subsequent preclinical work has shown that the extract also retards g...

Widely Prescribed Diabetes Drug Falls Short of Promise, Says New Review

... and Asia. // The drug — called pioglitazone — is marketed in the United States by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Nor...f diabetes drugs called “sulfonylureas,” which are marketed in the United States under the generic names glipizide, glyburide, glimepiride and chlorpropamide. ...

Improved Oral Health with Fluoridated water

...lth claim is not intended for use on bottled water marketed to infants for whom lesser amounts of fluoride are appropriate. According to the FDA's Center for Food Safety and applied Nutrition, "the food eligible to bear the claim is bottled water…containing greater than 0.6 and up to 1.0 mg/L total fluoride...

Antidepressants linked to infertility in men

... antidepressants. One patient was on citalopram, marketed as Cipramil in Britain and the other was on sertraline, sold as Lustral in Britain. The second patient was prescribed a different SSRI, venlafaxine or Effexor. The sperm count was affected in the same manner as with the previous drug. Similar effec...

Diabetes II May Be Controlled By Sanofi's New Obesity Pill

...ers it as its most promising new drug. It is being marketed in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Finland and Austria. MAL...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...advice is simple. Don't buy these very salty foods marketed at children, stop cooking with salt and don't let your children add salt to their food." Government guidelines suggest babies under six months old should have less than 1 gram of salt a day and those aged seven to 12 months one gram a day. Childr...

Cereal Bars Slammed for More Sugar Than Sweet Snacks

... While each of these f 20 well-known bars, mostly marketed to children, would be classified as "high in sugar" under the Food Standards Agency's traffic light labeling scheme, a nutritious-looking Kellogg's Fruit 'n Fibre Bar contained more sugar (10g) than a chocolate Penguin bar (9.7g).according to Which? ...

Green signal for new drug for arthritis given in Canada

...cidently be the first medicine of this class to be marketed in Canada for treatment of arthritis since all other drugs became notorious for raising the risk of heart problems MST...

Ice Cream made of Camel Milk Launched in Rajasthan

...in tetra packs in the near future. Camel milk is marketed as a health food and beauty product in the Gulf and Africa. According to the UN, the global market potential for camel milk is very lucrative. At the workshop, camel breeders emphasised that their herds had dwindled in the last 10 years because the...

Turmeric prevents rheumatoid arthritis: US study

...eric extract containing the ingredient curcumin is marketed widely in the Western world as a dietary supplement for the treatment and prevention of a variety of disorders, including arthritis. At The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Janet L. Funk, MD, working with Barbara N. Timmermann, PhD, then-...

Vaccine against grass pollen allergy introduced by ALK-Abell

...ced, tablet based //vaccine named Grazax? is being marketed by ALK-Abelló, a public limited company focusing on allergy treatment. Allergy from grass pollen prominently disrupts quality of life affecting concentration at work or school dampening social interaction severely .Statistics reveal that over 45 mil...

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