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Research into Anti-epileptic Drugs Given to Children for Long Term Safety

... devised a research strategy to improve paediatric medicines research in the hope of increasing the availability of licensed medicines for children he says. Concerns over paediatric AEDs have risen in recent years after prescribing r...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

The export of herbal products and medicines has the potential to reach Rs.120 billion by 2012 ...Russia and Indonesia), the urge for swadesi herbal medicines has been rising due to their quality ingredients, availability factor and price competitiveness with...

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...ritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology notes many medicines are not fully tested on children before licensing, meaning consultants have no official guidance on doses to refer to when prescribing. Instead they often have to estimate a safe and effective dose based on the age and the size of the child. Le...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

... and influenza carried the wrong markings. These medicines can be seized from chemists and hospitals as they ...ot be prosecuted. In addition there are numerous medicines sold at discount prices through Internet sites that have sprung up in Ukraine, meaning that the prop...

American Sports Star Teenager Dies Due To Overdose Of Muscle Cream

...reading the label on this and all over-the-counter medicines to ensure safe and proper use, in a prepared statement. The label on Ultra Strength Bengay says the product should be applied no more than three or four times daily and consumers should stop and see a doctor if the condition worsens or symptoms per...

Kolkata Homoeopaths Offer Medicines for US Lunar Mission

...estern scientists with their paper on homoeopathic medicines for health problems during lunar missions by the U... "Thus, in such a state, the use of conventional medicines has its limitations. An alternative to conventional medicines will be ultra-diluted medicines that m...

China Admits Fake Blood Protein Used in Drips

...as sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve medicines not properly tested for safety. And tainted Chinese toothpaste has been blamed for dozens of deaths in Panama. Anti-malarial drugs and pet food have also been found to contain contaminated or fake ingredients. The US and European Union have expre...

US Court Allows Teva to Deliver Disputed Drug: Novartis

A US court has authorised Israeli generic medicines group Teva to resume deliveries of a blood pressure drug despite a patent lawsuit by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical group said on Tuesday . A US federal court judge in New Jersey rejected on Monday a request from Novartis to stop Teva Pharmaceuti...

Animals too Affected from Heat Wake in Jaipur

...ing them on drips besides giving them anti-pyretic medicines when required," said Shashidhar Sharma, a veterinarian. Pet owners are a worried lot, rushing to hospitals to have their dogs treated, with no thought of the money to be spent. Satweer Kaur, whose dog 'Googly' has been sick for two days, sits mu...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...ries can temporarily suspend patent protections on medicines to safeguard public health. Thailand has issued compulsory licenses for AIDS drugs 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 ma...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

...ue to allergies, infections, virus, fungi, harmful medicines and certain nasal anomalies. The problem escalates during summers, when people beat the heat with chilled drinks. Further sinusitis is always on the rise due to bacteria and fungus in the atmosphere. Traffic pollution is also a big culprit. It is b...

Swami Ramdev to Hold Yoga Camps in U.S.

...dic medicines. Tests done at a lab showed that the medicines contained only herbal ingredients. Source-IANS/V...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...d was no more effective for pain relief than other medicines in the same class. "What you're talking about is a potential public health disaster," he said. COX-2 drugs have never been shown to be better pain relievers than older NSAIDs like ibuprofen. Yet doctors eagerly prescribed them in part because they...

A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...tration (NASA) of the US is also interested in the medicines because astronauts lose muscle mass on long missions. Experts warn that although the drugs would maintain muscle size, they would not provide any of the other health benefits of regular exercise. Professor Paul Greenhaff at Nottingham Universit...

New Blood Test to Diagnose Parkinson Disease

...r it. It can also monitor the effectiveness of the medicines used to treat the disease. The research will pave the way for the development of new drugs for the disease or even delay the disease to some extent. The researchers are hopeful that within two years they would be able to make available the test to p...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

...could be anything from pain relievers, paracetamol medicines to stronger medicines for conditions like migraine. Few of the drugs manufactured by different laboratories will be 90% ...

NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital

...e hospital management, which "withdrew life-saving medicines to Patrick who was in urgent need of medical therapy". The association also submitted a memorandum to the hospital management demanding an immediate probe into the episode. Source-IANS/V...

Health Expert’s Appeal to Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malari

...thout Doctors" situations: situations in which the medicines to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are availa...t not the doctors or the nurses to prescribe those medicines adequately." It would be a strategic mistake, say the authors, for the Global Fund to create such ...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...0% of the medicinal plants used for manufacture of medicines of the Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha systems.’ She emphasized that the growing demand for herbal products globally was putting unsustainable demand on forests leading to depletion of the plants Bio diversity that threatened the very survival of a num...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...drug to consumers for two years. The safety of new medicines would be reviewed 18 months and three years after they reach the market. In the last decade the ad spend of pharmaceutical firms has surged fivefold, it may be noted, to more than 5 billion dollars annually. Promoting new prescriptions on TV ent...

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