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Late Diagnoses of HIV Infected Children is No Child’s Play, Survey Reveal

...givers confirmed they have stuck to the prescribed medicines and one-third of them were well informed about the... problems in getting their children to consume the medicines due to difficulty in swallowing, dosage problems if the tablets are broken etc. India's pediatric ...

Overuse Of Antibiotics-Creating Monsters Out Of Common Microbes

...ention:“There is an urgent need for new, effective medicines to treat gonorrhea. We are running out of options to treat this serious disease. Increased vigilance in monitoring for resistance to all available drugs is essential.” So, where lies the problem?Antibiotics are one of the most profound achievemen...

Rajasthan Directs Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Names

...s in government-run medical hospitals to prescribe medicines by their generic names.// An official letter has...ispensaries to prescribe only the generic names of medicines and not the branded ones. "In spite of our constant reminders, doctors are not prescribing generic...

India's Pharmaceutical Industry to Be Global Player: Study

...al player, not only in producing low-price generic medicines but also as innovators in drugs and// vaccines, according to a study. "India is innovating its way out of poverty," said Nature Technology study co-author Peter Singer of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health in Toronto. India could revo...

Timing – Crucial for Asthma Drugs to Wor

...y pills must be consumed before bedtime and asthma medicines in the late afternoon to maximise its effectivenes...c to think that people who have to take preventive medicines on a regular basis, such as inhaled steroids, will take them between 3:00 and 5:30 in the afternoon....

Merck's Pain Reliever Arcoxia Rejected by US Federal Advisory Panel

...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. But doctors eagerly prescribed them in part because they ...

A.U. Health Ministers Receive Plan To Produce Low-Cost, Generic Drugs in Africa

... "The main objective is to identify which kinds of medicines we are going to produce, essential drugs we need for Africa and who is going to produce these drugs." Diallo also said that the decision would depend on health ministers attending the conference to move forward with the plan. Nthari Matsau, deputy...

Gonorrhea – Godzilla Of STD

...learly, there is an urgent need for new, effective medicines to treat gonorrhea as we are running out of options to treat this serious disease.” The CDC recommends an injectable drug called ceftriaxone, sold by Roche Pharmaceuticals as Rocephin, to treat genital, anal and throat gonorrhea. <BR...

Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

.... The main objective is to identify which kinds of medicines we are going to produce, essential drugs we need for Africa and who is going to produce these drugs." At present Africa imports truck loads of low-cost generic drugs from India and China, yet such an agreement is bound to be shaky, as most of th...

‘Land Of Dreams’ Staggers Under The Weight Of Neuroses And Substance Abue

...ere women. Poisoning-by overdosing prescription medicines or ingesting a toxic substance was observed to be the most common way patients attempted suicide. <...

One Fourth of Hospital Patients Admitted for Mental Health or Drug Abuse Disorder

... were women. Poisoning, by overdosing prescription medicines or ingesting a toxic substance was the most common way patients attempted suicide. Source-Neswise SRM...

Stricter Norms for Chemists in Punjab to Curb Addiction

...e state employed qualified pharmacists to dispense medicines to consumers. He said there were 28,738 registe...to ensure that drug inspectors kept a check on the medicines sold by chemists. Sood said that recruitment of at least one qualified pharmacist could be made c...

Abbott to Subsidize Price of HIV Drug

... antiretroviral agents. It is in a category of HIV medicines called protease inhibitors (PIs). Protease is a chemical, known as an enzyme that HIV needs in order to make new viruses. Protease inhibitors (PIs) block the protease enzyme. When protease is blocked, HIV makes copies of itself that cannot infect n...

FDA Announces to Companies to Stop Marketing Products Containing Trimethobenzamide

...rch (CDER). 'FDA is committed to ensuring that the medicines Americans rely on when they are sick are proven to...care providers prescribe, and consumers take, only medicines shown to be effective.' Companies manufacturing or marketing trimethobenzamide hydrochloride suppo...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...ments. Some of the world's most potent and popular medicines fall into this biotech basket, and existing federa...ersion of biotech drugs without trials. Biotech medicines are the fastest-growing category of health spending, with sales of $40 billion last year, up 20 perc...

New Clinical Trial Results Could Improve Survival for Myeloma Patients

... Celgene Corporation is the newest of the group of medicines called novel therapies that have significantly improved the outlook for patients with myeloma. Preliminary analysis of the ECOG data shows patients taking REVLIMID plus low dose dexamethasone had a 96% survival rate after one year with a reduced risk...

People Before Patents

... years ago, in an effort to overturn the country's medicines act that was designed to bring drug prices down. N...f people around the world today rely on affordable medicines produced in India. India's law contains elements that help put people before patents, but Novartis ...

Alberta Pharmacists Entitled to Prescribe Medicines

...uling in Alberta empowers pharmacists to prescribe medicines to patients suffering minor medical conditions. Now, pharmacists in Alberta// will be allowed to take a decision on the treatment for minor conditions and make modifications to dosages or prescriptions given by doctors. Though this ruling has recei...

A Homeopathic Cure for Cancer Under Trial in US

...Institute of the US. He said that the homeopathy medicines on trial now were the same as those used by leadin...ggest killer. They are even looking at alternative medicines for cure, which everybody knows are available in China or India," he said. GPL...

Karnataka Pharmacy Gets Licence to Produce Medicines from White Arecanut

...icence for commercial manufacture of two Ayurvedic medicines using white arecanut.// The areca nut, a favourite of the Indian betel chewers, has been known to have some medicinal properties. It is used in the manufacture of toothpowder and to combat tapeworms. The Mangalore foundation had initiated researc...

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