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List of 886 Drug Prices that has been Reduced by Govt. of India

There has been a huge demand for us to publish the names of 886 drugs in India where the price has been reduced by 0.026% to 74.53%. //These drugs belong to 11 pharmaceuticals include 391 drugs from Cadila Healthcare. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been entrusted with the job of...

Anti-HIV drive intensified in Haryana

...et themselves tested with the assurance that their names would be kept confidential.' Quoting the UNAIDS/WHO report, the spokesperson said: 'It is estimated that the number of people living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2005 nationwide was 5,600,000 men, 1,600,000 women and 100,000 children.' Unprotected...

Still Another Case of Carrot juice-linked botulism in Canada

...ucts are produced in California and sold under the names Bolt house Farms 100 Per Cent Carrot Juice, President's Choice Organics 100 Per Cent Carrot Juice and Earthbound Farm Organic Carrot Juice. Since the report of these incidents the juices have been removed from store shelves and consumers who purcha...

Widely Prescribed Diabetes Drug Falls Short of Promise, Says New Review

...re marketed in the United States under the generic names glipizide, glyburide, glimepiride and chlorpropamide. "The kernel from this review is that pioglitazone is effective in glucose-lowering, has some other beneficial and potentially harmful associated features and just has not been evaluated in the r...

Robots Help Bring Specialist Doctors To You In A Trice

...for Online Health one of the world’s most renowned names in telemedicine research. Which is affiliated to the University of Queensland, Eliza has currently begun work at Mt Isa Hospital. Robots like Eliza can be wheeled to the bedsides of sick children who are in need of specialist care and yet cannot...

Allergy OTC Medicines–Speak With Your Pharmacis

...known generically as loratadine or by common brand names like Claritin and Alavert,” Hussar said. Add nasal congestion to the mix of symptoms and individuals find that they now also need a decongestant. An antihistamine by itself may not be adequate to relieve the congestion. “There are two types of de...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

...rome are irresistibly drawn to strangers, remember names and faces with ease, show strong empathy and have fluent and exceptionally expressive language. Yet, they are confounded by the visual world around them: While they can’t scribble more than a few rudimentary lines to illustrate an elephant, they can ...

Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

...le East, where it is goes by a number of different names - shisha in Egypt, hookah in Pakistan and India, and narghile in a number of countries from Turkey to Israel - but has historically been "a habit of older men, usually of low socioeconomic level, in rural areas and in older parts of cities," he said....

Physician Communication Spotty When Prescribing Medications

...cation, potential adverse side effects or even the names of drugs they were prescribing to their patients. Yet these gaps in the patients’ knowledge can lead to misuse, non-adherence, drug overdoses and under-doses and other potentially serious problems. “Even though doctors prescribing new medications s...

ADHD Children Are Being Under-Medicated

...ug methylphenidate -- usually sold under the brand names Ritalin or Concerta. The researchers studied 1,610 twins between the ages of 7 and 17. Of those, 359 met full criteria for ADHD: 302 boys and 57 girls. The total number of boys in the sample was 1,006, and 604 girls were included. "From a clinica...

Treatment For ADHD In Kids Inadequate

...ug methylphenidate -- usually sold under the brand names Ritalin or Concerta. The researchers studied 1,610 twins between the ages of 7 and 17. Of those, 359 met full criteria for ADHD: 302 boys and 57 girls. The total number of boys in the sample was 1,006, and 604 girls were included. "From a clinical ...

Gates Foundation Announces $287 Million In Grants Towards AIDS Vaccine

...tigators in 19 countries, some of whom are the top names in AIDS research and some a less well known. All the scientists involved have been made to sign an unparalleled association agreement, which specifies that they all will openly share their data and results in the hope of getting the most hopeful vacc...

Wockhardt acquires Protinex, Farex brands from Netherland Co

...eted in India and internationally, under its brand names Dulac and Dupro. The acquisition has the potential to double its nutrition products sale to Rs 120 crore as Protinex and Farex complements its product range, it added. The company would inherit a strong sales and marketing organisation with 235 p...

Six Indians Win Australian Studies Fellowships

... in New Delhi announced in a statement Tuesday the names of the six recipients of the fellowship under the Australia-India Council (AIC) programme. The recipients are Deb Narayan Bandopadhyay from Burdwan University in West Bengal, Kamala Kanta Dash from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, Angshu...

Memory Loss and Amnestic MCI – Precursors of Alzheimer Diseas

...la said. The test required 40 patients to recall names of familiar faces and to learn and recall unfamiliar face-name associations. All patients showed brain activation in several brain regions during the task, but, compared with the controls, the patients with MCI showed a lower level of activation in t...

Kolkata Restaurants Serve Beckhams and Ronaldinhos on Plates

...e main course to cocktails, they have it after the names of David Beckham, Ronaldinho and Rud Van Nistelrooy. To order a Beckham or Rud Van, just show the yellow card on the table and when it is time to pay the bill, show the red card. At Oh! Calcutta! or Tangerine, other well known food joints of the c...

Outbreak of Malaria to Lead to Loss in Tourist Industry

...ne of the residents were willing to disclose their names out of fear of having their livelihoods ruined because "Haitians are so intertwined within the communities." According to chief immigration officer for the island, Eugene Wallace, 'I believe that the trafficking of Haitian nationals here in Exuma i...

Inhaler Linked To Asthma Deaths

...ed the long-acting beta-agonists salmeterol (trade names Serevent and Advair, both made by GlaxoSmithKline) or formoterol (trade name Foradil, made by Novartis Pharmaceuticals) were 3.5 times more likely to die from asthma and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized (whether or not death resulted), compar...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

... cigarettes are often advertised and marketed with names and packaging that might mislead consumers into believing that they are less dangerous than conventional cigarettes, WHO said. Smokeless tobacco products, such as snus and snuff, previously popular in a limited number of countries, were being market...

Eminent Doctors In UK Wants The NHS To Abandon Alternative Medicines:

...enior doctors who include some of the most eminent names in British medicine have written to every hospital and primary care trust in the UK urging them not to suggest anything but evidence-based medicine to their patients. This group of Britain’s leading doctors have urged every NHS trust to stop paying f...

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