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Flood of Fake Drugs Must Be Stopped, Warns UN

...ence of unregulated markets means that second-rate medicines – which can be lethal – are sold to consumers. "... lives." In some countries, up to 50 per cent of medicines are fakes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the growing counterfeit drug market ...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...al College in Dibrugarh. ART is a combination of medicines that helps a person living with HIV to fight off i...even getting the mandatory opportunistic infection medicines with the authorities saying there is no supply. Many like us are suffering without any access to tre...

Time to Overhaul Australia's Medicines Safety Surveillance System

New medicines should be granted a provisional safety rating unti...t evaluate the increasingly common longterm use of medicines by patients with chronic disorders, Assoc Prof Kelman said.Voluntary adverse reaction reports depend...

FDA Warns Migraine Medicine Makers

...mpanies that they are illegally selling// migraine medicines without federal approval. The Food and Drug Administration said the 20 warning letters were part of an effort to halt the marketing of unapproved and potentially dangerous drugs. The goal is to get the unapproved drugs off the market, agency offici...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

...e to bring Indian and other complementary forms of medicines into the mainstream. ? The finance minister has also announced a strategy to popularize condoms and make the accessibility of blood screening universal . ? The recent budget has also removed the service tax on clinical trials. According t...

Transplant Doctor Investigated in Organ Donor Case

...directed the nurses to increase the dosage of pain medicines which would eventually hasten his death. Navarro died several hours later after retuning to ICU. Late the nurses at the hospital have alerted the San Luis Obispo Police Department who are investigating the case now. JYT...

WHO States, “One Billion People Are Affected By Neurological Disorders

... meager supply of vital drugs which includes cheap medicines like aspirin and incidence of conservative practices contribute to the higher incidence of neurological disorders especially in countries like Africa. These disorders could be minimized if some simple precautionary procedures like immunization agai...

The Philippine Government's Half-priced Medicine Program to Be Expanded

...tional Trading Corporation to purchase these cheap medicines is because we want to make sure any drugstore can have it," the President explained during the forum that included Makati Rep. Teddy Locsin, PITC Undersecretary Elson Rivera and housewife Malou Hormigos. The PITC also regularly imports low cost med...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

...ant role" in the development of the global generic medicines industry. "India offers a vibrant chemical industry and the costs of manufacturing and infrastructure are still much lower," he told the paper. Source-IANS...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

...of Public Health is expected to expand the list of medicines covered by compulsory licence, using the public health rules of the World Trade Organisation. Thailand encourages firms to lower prices Last week Merck lowered the price of its HIV treatment, known as Efavirenz, by 14 per cent. Mr Sellers say...

Urban Poor in Dire Need of Proper Healthcare: Report

...z, Elder Pharmaceuticals, Shalaks Pharma to supply medicines and other essential items at the urban healthcare centres at an affordable rate. "In 2005-06, the government allocated a sum of Rs.1.37 billion for the urban family welfare centres for their revamp which is more than inadequate for the present popu...

Beta-Blockers Should Not Be First Choice for High Blood Pressure

...eta-blockers against all other high blood pressure medicines as a group. After combing through 13 studies of 91,561 patients, Wiysonge and colleagues found no difference in the risk of death or cardiovascular disease among those who used beta-blockers, diuretics and RAS inhibitor drugs. However, the abso...

Cancer Drug can Extend Survival in Patients With Deadly Brain Tumors

... materials carried in the bloodstream -- including medicines -- from reaching the brain and spinal cord. Life expectancy after diagnosis of a stage IV glioma -- the most aggressive kind of the cancer -- is eight to 15 months, Vredenburgh said. Individuals diagnosed with a stage III glioma, which is slightly...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

...fforts to create generic versions of// life-saving medicines and harm public health, says Karin Timmermans of t...thical questions, since it would imply withholding medicines that are already known to be effective from some patients (the control group), solely for commercial...

Parents Cautioned About Prescription Drug Abuse Of Their Children

...rescription drugs by teenagers is on the rise. The medicines that are at home used by the parents are being swi...e the parents are requested to keep track of their medicines and throw away expired ones immediately. This report also indicates that children are buying these d...

New Drug Therapy for Breast Cancer Offers Hope

...s. They are a newer class of drugs and include the medicines Femara, Aromasin, and Arimidex. These fight cancer cell growth in a different way by blocking the workings of an aromatase enzyme while also reducing estrogen. Around 31,000 post-menopausal women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK each y...

A New Treatment Discovered For Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

... the leukemia cells. In this way, this group of medicines will help to enhance chemotherapy results and raise the rates of survival amongst these patients. The discovery provides a rational basis for being able to use a series of drugs for this disease - such as quercetine (which produces a programmed de...

New Treatment For Psoriasis Is Highly Effective

... Current treatments for psoriasis include topical medicines and UV light therapy to treat the symptoms of the disease. Many of these treatments are messy, time consuming, have cumulative toxicities, and are not very effective, according to Gerald Krueger, M.D., principal investigator for the study. Krueger is...

Bacteria Fighter Goes Where Antibiotics Can't

...e journal Chemistry and Biology. Common antibiotic medicines used to treat infections are increasingly thwarted by new strains of drug-resistant bacteria. Unlike most antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides can sidestep such resistance mechanisms and destroy by brute force, often simply ripping a hole in a targete...

A New Plan to Restrict Cardiovascular Diseases in Scotland

...age of 40 could be prescribed statins. Statins are medicines used to lower cholesterol levels and are often prescribed to people deemed to be at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Experts have expressed anxiety about such "mass medication", more so because statins cause side effects like headaches, abdomi...

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