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FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Ambien for Insomnia

... director, Office of Generic Drugs. "This approval offers Americans more alternatives when choosing their prescription drugs." Zolpidem tartrate tablets in formulations of five milligrams and 10 milligrams are manufactured by multiple generic drug companies in the United States. The following 13 manufact...

High Demand for the Cancer Vaccine

...This vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer offers protection against the four strains of a sexually transmitted infection called human papillomavirus, or HPV. New Hampshire was the first state to approve the free distribution of the vaccine. They started the distribution in January and expected ...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...ptor. Just last month, the team showed that ASC-J9 offers promise against a rare neuromuscular disease known as Kennedy's disease. The compound is now being tested as a cream to treat acne in a clinical trial run by AndroScience, a biotech company founded by Chang, Charles C-Y Shih, and Por-Hsiung Lai in...

Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...ekly draw, and in 1999 by another weekly game that offers players more chances to win smaller prizes. Now that growth in revenues has stabilized, the next National Lottery license is likely to include a daily lottery game as well as internet based services and interactive games. Furthermore, the introduc...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

...I'm a businessman," he says. "Conventional farming offers no return." The citrus industry, like the wine industry, is periodically beset by gluts in production, pushing down prices and squeezing producers' margins. Apart from higher prices for organics, decades of heavy nitrate and fertilizer usage has ...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

Hip resurfacing offers new hope to young osteoarthritic patients. Increasingly in the US this procedure is suggested as a better alternative to hip replacement,// though many sound a note of caution.Its potential advantages should be weighed against its potential risks, th...

Eradicating Polio a Better Option Than Control of the Disease: Study

... long as it is technically achievable, eradication offers both lower cumulative costs and cases than control in the long-term, even with the costs of achieving eradication exceeding several billion dollars more," said Thompson. The authors note in the study that debate about eradication versus control sh...

Marriage Education for a Life-Long Commitment

... what the Marriage Resource Center of Wayne County offers to residents everyday. Here is an opportunity for couples who are planning to marry, newly-married, established couples or crisis couples who can gain insight through workshops and other trainings. To make the grade couples will learn more realisti...

Mental Distress Sufferers Loathe To Come Out In The Open

... with a new booklet called Keeping Us Going, which offers help and guidance for people with mental health problems and their friends. ANN/B...

Starting Time of Hormone Therapy may Augment the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

...estion of reduced total mortality in younger women offers some reassurance that hormones remain a reasonable option for the short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms, but does not necessarily imply an absence of harm over prolonged periods of hormone use. In contrast, risk of stroke did not depend on year...

Government Entreated To ‘Haggle’ To Save Money For Medicae

...Under the current benefit, called Part D, Medicare offers voluntary prescription drug coverage through dozens of private health insurance plans but is not allowed to intervene over prices. Yet, the clash in thoughts by the Democrats and Republicans is that while the former supports this idea, stressing...

India Should Take the Lead in Stem Cell Research, Expert

...ons to biotechnology at the summit. “This field offers immense potential in the treatment of various ailments which require replacement of damaged or dead tissues. Unfortunately in the US, the regulatory system does not allow research on this subject,” he regretted. The therapeutic potential lies in t...

High Dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

...tructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an illness that offers a greater// susceptibility to lung cancer, researchers found that regular use of high dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) lowered the risk of developing lung cancer. David H. Au, M.D., M.S., of the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care Syst...

High-dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

...uctive pulmonary disease (COPD),// an illness that offers a greater susceptibility to lung cancer, researchers found that regular use of high dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) lowered the risk of developing lung cancer. The results for this study appear in the first issue for April 2007 of the American ...

New Age Sweetener Launched for Diabetics

...ste. The other advantages this new age sweetener offers to the patients are as follows:- The pellets are apparently stable with heat and this should work in India where temperatures soar in summer. - It is available in a convenient pen dispenser - making it easy to use and carry in the pocket. - It ne...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

...rs. Gardasil, made by Merck and Sanofi Pasteur, offers protection against HPV types 16 and 18, which are responsible for 70% of all cervical cancers. They could also be effective against types 6 and 11, which cause about 90% of cases of genital warts. UK-based GlaxoSmithKline also has a HPV vaccine, ...

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

... creates a "greater public health risk." Guangdong offers medical checkups and treatment for HIV-positive people from both Guangdong and Hong Kong at 145 hospitals, according to China Daily. In addition, the Hong Kong health department has established centers in 13 cities throughout the region to track a...

Heartbeats on IPods - Being ‘cool’ can Help Doctors to

... average improved doubly- to 80 percent. Barrett offers the clue as to why this technique worked. Listening to the heart, known as cardiac auscultation, is a technical skill and therefore best learned through intensive drilling and repetition and not by traditional methods, usually a classroom lecture ...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

...versity College London have conducted a study that offers definitive proof that the right parietal lobe is indeed responsible// for dyscalculia or in layman terms the inability to ‘do math’. The researchers hope the findings will aid in the diagnosis and management of the disorder, through remedial teachi...

Turmeric in the Fight Against Prostate Cancer

... liver function and lowers cholesterol levels. It offers promise against breast cancer, melanoma, Alzheimer's disease and the blisters that come with radiation treatments for cancer. Thus there are several citations to turmeric’s therapeutic properties. But the new found turmeric’s efficacy against ...

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