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Sweet nothings: A fruitful option to assuage the sweet tooth

... prefer salt and spice. Brian Wansink, a Cornell marketing professor who led this research felt that it is imperative to go into the triggers that dictate preferences and consumption of various foods. The research was conducted on a random sample of 2,000 North Americans to ascertain the nature of eating h...

World's First Cervical Cancer Vaccine to go on Sale

... Sanofi Pasteur MSD, the European company which is marketing Gardasil, received a "positive opinion" from the C...sion is now expected to grant an authorisation for marketing it by September - at least three months ahead of schedule. Cervical cancer kills nearly 4,000 wom...

Measures to Streamline Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes

...ealed that government will enact a law to regulate marketing and promotion of breast-milk substitutes// in an e...ealth told Khaleej times that a law to rationalize marketing regulations will soon be put into place to prevent inappropriate use of breast-milk substitutes. ...

Anlene brand of milk products will carry warnings about blood-clotting risks

...ing to the Food Safety Authority (FSA) Fonterra marketing manager, Andrew Smith, has explained, when the product was launched the company had decided not to carry the label enumerating the risks, but will do so subsequent to deliberations with the FSA....

US Courts Say No To 'Light' Cigarettes

...to ban the terms 'light' or 'ultra-light' from all marketing campaigns. Shares in Altria were up more than three percent in after-hours trading Thursday as the ruling seemed to pave the way for a proposed break-up of the company, which would make it more valuable to shareholders, Bloomberg reported. The Ju...

Defeating the 'Diabesity' Beast

...rofs Zimmet and James first recommend banning food marketing targeted at children, and establishing strict food and physical activity requirements for schools. In addition, they say junk foods and drinks should be removed from all publicly-funded premises, all products should have clear nutritional labelling...

Max Healthcare Launches Outpatient Health Plans

...A. Wajid, head, health insurance and international marketing of Max Healthcare. "The health package will be of great help for people over 60 years who are generally not covered under health insurance plan," said Wajid. For people wary of going to doctors for simple ailments or those prone to self-medicatio...

Heart Treatment from Vasogen Shows Promise

...o receive a cash injection under a future Celacade marketing deal. He said, "We certainly expect the market will be impressed by this data." The Celacade technology involves taking a blood sample from patients with heart disease and treating it to target the chronic inflammation associated with cardiovasc...

Raids By US Marshals Uncovers Cache’ Of Unapproved Drug

...have labelled these products for the promoting and marketing them for serious disease conditions, which includes cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia and seizures. The FDA have stated that these products do not provide enough directions on as to how they are to be used and they consider these drugs as unapproved ne...

Doctors Unaware If Pediatric Dosages Are Safe

... the period of time that a company holds exclusive marketing rights for a drug -- thereby delaying the entry of competing generic drugs -- if the manufacturer conducts FDA-requested trials on its use in children. The researchers looked at how often the results of such studies were published in peer-reviewed ...

Test Helps Identify Patients with Breast Cancer

...esident of Research at Catalyst Oncology, which is marketing OncoPlan. “Perhaps more importantly, aggressive cancer cells must endure oxidative stress—stress that in normal cells triggers p66 Shc to cause cellular suicide,” he said. “Tumor cells, then, may have both growth and survival advantages if p66 Shc le...

Pharmaceutical Companies Banned from Giving Gifts at Stanford

...th an educational seminar staffed by the company's marketing employees. Besides this under the new guidelines...resent at the event. In addition industry sales or marketing staff can only visit clinics or the university's two hospitals with an appointment. Dr. Jordon Coh...

Dabur Research to set up Drug Discovery Center in Oman

...want to do the process and manufacturing there for marketing the product across the world. We also want to develop a marine depository in Oman," said Mukherjee. The project envisages research and development of both nutraceuticals and therapeutic drugs. All these activities are expected to generate a market ...

Warning on Avastin Updated

...enfeld said, "This is exactly the reason that post marketing surveillance is so important for all drugs and especially for chemotherapy drugs." According to him Avastin is "typically is given to patients with advanced disease and aggressive tumors," a patient population that is compromised by disease and thu...

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

... Lahe-Thapa, the Nepal Tourism Board's director of marketing and promotion, told IANS. "Inspired by the success of Kerala (in southern India), Thailand and Malaysia, we will be looking at more investment in the wellness sector," she said. Though similar to ayurvedic treatment in the use of herbs and oils, ...

FDA Approves Vectibix for Colorectal Cancer

...e FDA said. Analysts predict that this will be a marketing battle, which will see more doctors using panitumamab, thanks to Amgen's dynamic sales force. Annual sales in the range of $500 million to $2 billion could be in the offing....

Stem Cells –To Lift Wrinkle

..."cleared" by federal regulators, and Anjee Barnes, marketing director for Pink Patio, called the claim a "marketing faux pas" on the part of the DNA Health Institute. She said, "It might have to change the way it's marketed. The information is only as good as we're provided with." According to Dr. Sidney W...

India's Wockhardt Acquires Irish Firm

...uisition, Wockhardt UK can now leverage Pinewood's marketing and distribution system and its customer base in Ireland for its vast range of hospital products. 'The acquisition offers us enormous opportunities to unlock value of our enlarged customer base in Britain and Ireland by offering them a wider range ...

Obesity Drug Advertisements Misleading Teens

...hough it would not be fined.The company has denied marketing Xenical to adolescents, saying the advertising was aimed at an older audience. NL...

Ranbaxy To Market Pain Killer In Canada

...// into a tie-up with Janssen-Ortho Inc. (JOI) for marketing of its generic painkiller Fentanyl in Canada. The second product to be commercialised by RPCI, Fentanyl would be sold under Ranbaxy's label RAN under the licensing and supply agreement with Janssen-Ortho Inc, the company said in a statement Friday. ...

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