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MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

...ere malnourished. In Patai village, even essential medicines were not found at the health centre. "We togethe... and anganwadi schemes, vaccinations and supply of medicines and also interacted with the villagers and local officials to find out the reason for malnourishment...

Stents Do Little to Prevent Heart Attacks

...to cause the next heart attack and that's what the medicines treat." "From my standpoint, it validates what was known since the inception of angioplasty — that it relieves symptoms," says William O'Neill, executive dean for clinical affairs at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. Still, ...

Malaysia Seeks Help to Set Up Ayurvedic Hospital

...ities, the methods of preparing different kinds of medicines in the pharmacy and other hospital activities," Sharma added. NIA is an apex institute under the central government's department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy). The institute also has a well-equipped hospit...

Alzheimer's Drugs Lead To Early Deaths

...t infections. In 2004, a warning was issued by the medicines watchdog that two types of neuroleptics, olanzapine and risperidone should not be prescribed to Alzheimer's patients due to an increased risk of stroke and death. But the Alzheimer's Society presented evidence in 2005 that a neuroleptic drug was gi...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

...veals. There is a singular lack of availability of medicines to meet the situation. Worse awareness level leaves a lot to be desired, says Srimanta Sankaradeva Nethralaya, a premier eye care institution that conducted the study.It also expressed concern at the lack of specialist pediatric and ophthalmic servi...

West African Meningitis Outbreak Sparks Warning from UN Aid Agencies

...f health-care workers and ensuring extra stocks of medicines are in place if needed. But Hervé Ludovic de Lys, OCHA’s representative in West Africa, warned that additional assistance is urgently needed across the region. “The open borders and traditional seasonal migration which characterizes the Sahel sub...

Doctors in Tamil Nadu Reluctant to Serve in Backward Pockets

.... As part of the initiative, adequate stocks of medicines needed to combat water-borne diseases and common s...e headquarters in Chennai will have ample stock of medicines and the districts are being supplied based on their requirements and past disease patterns," ministe...

GSK, TCS to Jointly Set Up Drug Development Center

...alzman, the partnership will also help deliver new medicines to patients. GSK, under this alliance, also plans to expand capacity in response to increased efficiency demands, leverage the high-quality talent pool in India, and benefit from cost and process improvements. Source-IANS...

Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix

...er. But according to Thailand government essential medicines are too expensive for the country’s health care program. JYT...

Hong Kong, Guangdong Province To Increase Joint HIV/AIDS Surveillance

..." Lo said, adding, "They should also know that the medicines used to treat the disease have side effects." Lo also said that the governments should offer access to no-cost checkups to Hong Kong men living on the mainland and to commercial sex workers in Hong Kong. Lo said that all sex workers previously had...

Drugs Watchdog Faces A Judicial Review

...ages of Alzheimer's disease cannot be treated with medicines on the NHS. But Eisai and Pfizer mark such assumptions of Nice as ‘irrational’. Last year Nice declined an appeal over its pronouncement that sufferers with early or late-stage Alzheimer's should not have access to Aricept (donepezil), Reminyl gal...

Indian Pharma Authorized to Market New Anti-TB Drugs

...o standard treatment. The addition of these four medicines will reinforce efforts to scale up access to anti-tuberculosis medicines in high-burden areas, the WHO said in a statement. The medicines are the first TB products to be a...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

The use of medicines to fight cardiovascular disease has been a primary...e ASA (more than 200 mg) in combination with other medicines to prevent thrombosis and ischemic events, a sub-analysis from a clinical trial presented by researc...

India Sounds Bird Flu Alert in Border States

...ndia has already stockpiled adequate quantities of medicines and equipments for handling any outbreak. Though the outbreak has been reported from the countries, which flank India, there is no need for any panic," the statement added. Source-IANS...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...he clinics thrice a week for treatment and collect medicines under the DOTS is almost outrageous. For how many can afford to trek to the nearest clinic that many times a week, who will pay them the transport fare and who will compensate them for the loss of the wages? he wonders. And any interruption in the ad...

GM Rice to Tackle Diarrhea

...ioscience, says the plants could be developed into medicines for diarrhea and dehydration in infants. These plants, incorporating human genes involved in producing breast milk, would be grown over some 3,000 acres (1,215 hectares) of farmland in the mid-western state of Kansas. Though a preliminary approva...

Exam Time Boosts Sales of Memory Enhancers

With school examinations going on, ayurvedic medicines claiming to enhance memory have become big busines... Memo Nerve and Brain Tone Tablet. Though these medicines are sold throughout the year, the demand peaks from November to April - the time when most exams are...

Banned Additives Found in Children’s Medicine

...od and drinks are contained in many of the popular medicines of children. This was disclosed by a survey// cond...e has come now for the drug companies to bring out medicines without these unnecessary additives. In place of the additives, natural alternatives could be added....

Aspirin Or NSAIDs Will not Prevent Colorectal Cancer

... Force has made a recommendation related to taking medicines to prevent colorectal cancer. After reviewing the latest evidence on the topic, the Task Force found that the potential harms of taking more than 300 mg per day of aspirin or NSAIDs--which can include increased risks for stroke, intestinal bleeding o...

Patient Sets Medical Counsellor on Fire

...t. The counsellor had refused to advise Jaiswal on medicines for treating AIDS. The patient was undergoing co...claiming that he was an AIDS patient and demanding medicines for the disease though he hid did not have it. "Preliminary interrogations suggested that the offe...

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