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Contraceptives via Internet

...ty of Washington in Seattle posed as consumers and ordered various contraceptive devices from Web sites located with commonly used search engines. The team found that male and female condoms, vaginal sponges and diaphragms were widely available. From Web sites based outside the US, the researchers were abl...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...avan Pillai of Samad Hospital, Attingal, have been ordered to pay the compensation and Rs 3,000 as costs to the victim’s husband and mothe....

Parke-Davis (India) runs into rough weather – Court orders attachment of asset

...rke-Davis (India). A local court in Hyderabad has ordered the attachment of its assets located in the city. ...court of the Ranga Reddy district civil courts has ordered attachment of plant and machinery of Parke-Davis (India) following a petition filed by former employ...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...ves before using it. So the FDA issued warning and ordered manufacturer Akorn Pharmaceuticals to write thousands of doctors alerting them to the problem. Apparently the drug can delay recharging of the heart between beats within minutes after a dose is administered. If the heart doesn't recover, it can go ...

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...d to 80 million if needed. The government also has ordered an additional 300 million shots from Acambis Plc and Baxter International Inc ....

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...for nurses, the rate was one in eight. The doctors ordered nearly twice as many unnecessary tests as the nurses. However, it's unlikely that nurses can completely replace junior doctors in doing this kind of work, because it's a vital part of a doctor's career development. But it's useful to know that a nurs...

SARS reaches Russian Federation

... was quarantined. Russian aviation officials have ordered airlines and cargo carriers on Thursday to suspend reservations on flights to mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in connection with concerns about the spread of SARS. They also warned of a complete halt of operations. Training on disinfecting the ...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Increase The Risk For Osteoporosis

...tients were reviewed to determine if their doctors ordered bone mineral density tests to assess for osteoporosis or prescribed drugs to treat the disease. Results showed only about 15 percent of the men underwent any kind of medical management for osteoporosis, and only about 5 percent received a drug to tre...

Impotence Drugs Ordered by FDA to have Label Change

...rday evening the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered that all impotence// drugs must have updated labeling as several cases have been reported to cause sudden vision loss among users. It is also advised that all consumers should stop taking impotency related drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levira and cal...

Bihar High Court Intervenes To End Doctors Strike

The Bihar High Court on Tuesday ordered the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) //junior doctors to call off their strike immediately. This order came after hearing a filed petition, that the strike has crippled emergency services since its start on Friday. The death of several cri...

Clampdown On Fake Drugs Manufacturers In India – New Bill Enacte

...de of spurious drug manufacturing, they would have ordered for the national survey which was recommended by the Mashelkar committee last year. They also feel that there is no need to mix trade-mark offences and spurious drug manufacturing when there is already sufficient law under trademark and copy rights t...

Do Not Neglect Your Abdominal Pain/ Swelling - Help Your Doctor In Early Cancer Detection

... symptoms are not neglected and the right tests be ordered to diagnose the aggressiveness of the fast growing tumor. // Elderly women with ovarian cancer are twice as likely to visit a doctor and report symptoms such as abdominal swelling or pelvic pain. If these symptoms are taken into careful considerati...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

...nt. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has already ordered the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the drugs watchdog, to fast track its assessment of the wider use of Herceptin. Herceptin targets a protein called HER2, which appears to be over-abundant in some women's breast cancer...

Another Victim Of Legionnaires' Disease

...entilation system's air intake. Health officials ordered the cooling tower shut down Oct. 6 when the disease was detected, and said there's been no risk to the public since then. The investigation is continuing, but there's no evidence the building's cooling tower was not properly maintained. Legionnair...

Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany

...rds in Croatia, Hungary and Portugal. Germany has ordered that free range poultry be kept indoors till December in the hope of limiting the spread of the disease, which is carried by migratory birds. Germany and Britain have backed a full-scale ban on imports of poultry to the European Union. If confirmed,...

Controversy Surrounding The HIV Positive Reports Of One-Year Girl In Kerala

...cted to confirm the finding. The Government has ordered a probe to resolve the associated mystery. The State Minister in response to the above issue has announced a sum of Rs 10, 000 as a compensation for the victim’s mother. "About 30,000 people receive blood every year from this blood bank. This is th...

Clinical Renal Trails Do Not Have Sufficient Women Participants

...er the last ten years, 8 out of 10 drugs that were ordered to be withdrawn had serious side effects in women. Dr. Julia Lewis of Vanderbilt University’s Division of Nephrology says that even with the above evidence women were underrepresented at clinical renal trials that were conducted to test the efficacy ...

Man Bludgeons Friend, Gets Life Term

...ased from a psychiatric hospital where a judge had ordered he be detained indefinitely for another violent assault. Stuart Robertson, a father of three from Glasgow, befriended James Smith while they were both patients at Leverndale Hospital near Paisley. Three months later he battered Mr Robertson to deat...

Cipla In India Can Manufacture Drug For Bird Flu

...ug Controller General of India. India has already ordered one hundred thousand doses of Tamiflu from Roche to combat any emergency outbreak of bird flu. Medindia Related Links: Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better Handled By Combining It With Probenecid Drug Synergism refers to the enhancement in action or...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

...000 doses of Tami Flu. The British Government has ordered 14.6 million courses of Tamiflu at a cost of ￡200 million. Three million courses have been delivered and the remainder is due by September next year. Japan is the only country with extensive experience of Tamiflu. The drug is routinely used by all s...

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