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Bilcare Signs Pact With Honeywell for Packaging Solutions

... collaboration with Honeywell//, a UK-based pharma packaging firm, to provide high-barrier packaging solution for the pharmaceutical sector. "The partnership with Honeywell's Healthcare Film Business ...

Rajasthan Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Name

...he branded medicines are generally costlier due to packaging and marketing expenses. "Generic medicines are sometimes cheaper than branded medicines, but the active ingredient that produces the therapeutic effect of the medicine is the same in both," said a doctor here. The treatment could become 40-50 pe...

Best HIV-Prevention Programs Help People Build Skills

...of the key gaps.” For the time being, the CDC is packaging six of the intervention programs together and will soon be teaching local agencies about them, Lyles said. A. David Paltiel, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said the review is weakened by the long list of intervention strategies th...

Government Announces Steps To Promote Ayurvedic Medicine

...nt share of the global market due to its effective packaging of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), whereas India's share is only 2 per cent.' The Minister also stressed the need to improve the export of medicinal plants as finished products. 'Currently, 90 per cent of our medicinal plant exports are in the ...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

... up on supplies in the event of a contingency. The packaging is being worked on and new formulaions are being tried. However, Tamiflu has been used largely for ordinary flu and even then it has be given as soon as possible . What its usefulness in case of H5N1 will be, is not certain, since the virus is bel...

Statistics Show Steep Rise of Female Smokers in Hong Kong

...ng campaigns by using slimmer cigarettes, feminine packaging and the belief that women can smoke "stylishly". Source-IANS...

New Zealand Scientist Warns On Fake Drugs

...od that it's impossible to tell the fake pills and packaging apart from the genuine product, even with close vi...he genuine manufacturers, such as holograms on the packaging and serial numbers on the blister packs, has been successfully copied by the counterfeiters." Mild...

Bhutan Lifts Ban on Poultry from India

...aid all poultry meat must be processed with proper packaging and must be from a Government of India certified unit. "All consignment should be transported in refrigerated vehicles to Bhutan and the quantity of each consignment will be specified," the statement said. Bhutan's major poultry imports come from...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

...senal consists of creams, facemasks and peelers in packaging that promises nothing short of a miracle. Yet so far//, the battle against the wrinkles that come inevitably with age has been fought mainly on the surface of the human skin. The latest weapons, however, are primed to work from within. Numerous ma...

Scientists Make World Breakthrough

...e latter is part of the cell that is essential for packaging newly-synthesized proteins. The toxin, called subtilase cytotoxin, is produced by certain strains of E. coli bacteria responsible for severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Dr Paton discovered the toxin in 2003 in a bacterium responsible for an...

Allergy OTC Medicines–Speak With Your Pharmacis

...r decongestants, there is a general caution on the packaging that advises a health professional be consulted if the individual has high blood pressure, diabetes, enlarged prostate, or certain other conditions. The pharmacist is in a position to give advice based on patient information.” It’s enough to give a...

Stay Healthy with Herbal Tea

... "Medicinal teas must contain information on the packaging about their correct usage, their chemical components, dosage, a best-before-date and their licensing number." When buying herbal tea make sure each tea bag is individually wrapped so that essential oils are not lost. "Only then can a medicinal tea ...

Virus-mix-spray destroys bacteria on Prepackaged meats

...d companies can now spray it on these foods before packaging and distribution. This virus mix is not effective against E. Coli or Salmonella, other potential fatal oraganisms sometimes found in food. The spray would be available in another 6-month’s time. Similar to E.coli, Listeria cannot be washed away. ...

Acne drug may cause depression

...e side-effects like suicidal behaviour. Though the packaging of the drug mentions these risks, the reason for the occurrence of such side-effects is not known.It has not been proven so far that the drug is responsible for depression; moreover, teenagers with severe acne may feel depressed being concerned about...

The need for cancer warnings on alcohol packaging

...at we're calling for is health warnings on alcohol packaging so that - in the same way that we've now become aware of the hazards of tobacco over the past couple of decades - that we may also have that same level of awareness through the community of the hazards of alcohol." Today, a new campaign will be int...

Doctors worried about Homeopathic licensing

...ntroversial licensing scheme. According to it, the packaging or covering on the homeopathic products// will be ...ized as medicine or permitted to put any claims on packaging about ailments they profess to cure, because they lacked proof of their efficacy.These products will...

Food Packaging Containing Latex May Trigger an Allergic Reaction

It is important to label the Food packaging that contains latex, which will certainly prevent ...ucted in the UK showed that nearly a third of food packaging was containing unhealthy levels of latex, and in a certain chocolate biscuit, the quantity of latex ...

No Smoke Without Fire – Is Benson and Hedges Making Light of Health Regulations

...e ire of anti-smoking// groups, by reinventing the packaging of cigarettes in tins which carry health warnings in the form of stickers that can be easily removed. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) director, Becky Freeman, is mighty peeved with the Tobacco Company for inventing ways to reduce the impact of ...

Study Finds That Food Wrappers Could Be A Source For Health Risks

...y had reported hat hey had found that one-third of packaging tested was contaminated with latex, which in some ...that the proteins in the latex that drift from the packaging to the food are usually destroyed by heat, but in case of ‘cold sealing’, which is the technique tha...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

...s 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 marketed heavily els...

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