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Canadian Court Rules Grocery Shops can Sell Cold Medications Containing Pseudoephedrine

...ed that Ontario residents can get cold and allergy medicine containing pseudoephedrine from local grocery and corner stores . The Ontario Superior Court has overturned an April 2006 decision by pharmaceutical regulators and the Ontario College of Pharmacists preventing grocers from selling medications conta...

Newspaper Analysis positive Results for Organ Transplantation

... the UB College of Arts and Sciences and of family medicine in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. "We wanted to know if the issue was covered positively in newspapers, and what aspect of organ donation the articles concentrated on," he said. "We also wondered if the content differs by newspa...

Stem Cells- a Miraculous Boon

... stem cell research remains a contentious field of medicine because it requires the creation and then destruction of a human embryo. Scientists say these early, all-purpose cells can be induced to form nerves and specialised tissues to repair this host of life-threatening afflictions because stem cells have t...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...gs Kaletra and Efavirenz and popular heart disease medicine Plavix. The government plans to import generic versions of the drugs from India, but could also choose to manufacture them itself. ANN/B...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...uthor Jeffrey Miner, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and cell biology and physiology. "If physicians can reduce production of bad lamin A by as little as half in progeria patients, we might see significant improvement." Progeria treatment also has potential implications for larger populations. The LM...

Who Receives a Kidney Transplant First?

...tion is the only technologically advanced field of medicine that is totally dependent on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply not exist,” says Shapiro. Source-IANS MD/B...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...identification to guard against one person getting medicine intended for another or newborns being given to the wrong parents; · Ensure operations are performed on the right body parts; · Double-check similar-sounding medication names and resolve the problem of illegible prescriptions; · Ban reuse of ne...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

... beta blockers and ACE inhibitors should be on the medicine cabinet shelves of nearly every patient who has ever been hospitalized for chest pain or a heart attack – and patients need to make sure to keep taking those drugs long after they leave the hospital, perhaps for life. At the same time, while the s...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

... of bronchial airways. Inhalation of the asthma medicine is the most effective treatment as it delivers medicine right to the place where it is meant to work, and is also devoid of any side effects. For people ...

Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

... Lei Gong Teng, which has been used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases and, more recently, also has been tested in Phase I clinical trials as an anti-tumor agent. This study, with mice bred to have a disease like human polycystic kidney disease, used triptolide w...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...s typically offer some training and do-it-yourself medicine can cut costs, but some worry that the long-term r...ecialized practices. And while the path that vet medicine as an institution appears to be taking may leave many ranchers high and dry, there's more to the sto...

The Pain Relieved With the Help of Palliative Workers

...reatments. This little-known field of palliative medicine is growing quite rapidly. It began on the periphery of medicine in small community hospitals but now has gained much respect from doctors and patients alike. Eduard...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

... Zealand and England all have institutes of sports medicine that aim to better cricketing performance. Interes... an extent, to the maximum utilization of science, medicine and technology to improve their performance. In Australia, like in India, cricket is a very popula...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...scular death, says Dr.David Felson, a professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and a member of the advisory panel. Arcoxia has been sold for the past five years in Europe and in dozens of other countries around the world. The drug represented Merck's first bid to return to the once...

New Test Helps Identify Hepatitis C Patients at High Risk of Developing Cirrhosis

...g," said Ramsey Cheung, MD, associate professor of medicine at the school and chief of hepatology at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, who led the Stanford arm of the study. "This test is the first of its kind to use the genetic makeup of each patient to determine who is likely to develop cir...

Genetic Flaws Leads to Diabetes

...sk of acquiring it. With this discovery preventive medicine can be tailor made according to an individual genetic make up. Some genetic areas that are in no way connected to diabetes have been discovered but which harms the body’s ability to control the blood sugar and cause heart disease paving the way ...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

...otentially have value in a personalized preventive medicine program," the researchers wrote. However, the researchers emphasized that their predictions of disease risk need to be interpreted with caution because the diabetes group in their sample was "enriched" with people who had affected siblings and beca...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

...esearcher of the study, Edward Yelin, professor of medicine and health at the University of California, San Fr... Yelin. According to Dr. Doyt Conn, professor of medicine and director of the division of rheumatology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, the ...

Syphilis Rate on Rise in US Gay, Bisexual Men

...005. Khalil Ghanem, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said rates among gay men could be going up for several reasons, including illicit drug use and "safe-sex fatigue." In addition, he said, prevention messages might have been "drowned out" by talk about h...

Girls Born With HIV Infection at Higher Risk for Cervical Abnormalities

... Joseph Harwell, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Brown University, said that the results are troubling. “This is an important reason for trying to protect this population from invasive cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine,” Harwell said. “Cervical cancer is an AIDS-defining illn...

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