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Indian Dumping Duty on Chinese Paracetamol to Continue

Indian dumping duties on Chinese paracetamol exports are likely to continue, even after the exp...her five years, reports The China Daily. Chinese paracetamol are priced at 2.5 dollar per kilogram, said an industry insider who declined to be named. Apart from...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

...riced drugs could be anything from pain relievers, paracetamol medicines to stronger medicines for conditions like migraine. Few of the drugs manufactured by different laboratories will be 90% cheaper than the cost of popular over-the-counter drugs. Walmex will be buying the drugs from labs such as Canifarma...

Banned Additives Found in Children’s Medicine

...ifferent sweeteners were found in Morrisons junior paracetamol and Superdrug junior paracetamol suspension which can have a laxative effect. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency s...

Irish Medicines Board Extends Paracetamol Recall To All Batches

All batches of the paracetamol tablet Paratabs 500mg are being recalled by the Irish Medicines Board due to fears of contamination which is most likely to be mould//. This applies to all tablets dispensed since August 29. As people could not have purchased the product without a p...

Dengue and Chikungunya: The Dirge of a Nation

...nya. Fever and joint pain may be controlled by the paracetamol group of drugs. Severe cases of Dengue or Chikungunya may require IV fluid infusion. In case of severe bleeding, as in Dengue, blood transfusion may be required. Adequate rest and supportive care is an absolute requirement. Although no vaccinatio...

Dengue and Chikungunya: The Dirge of a Nation

...nya. Fever and joint pain may be controlled by the paracetamol group of drugs. Severe cases of Dengue or Chikungunya may require IV fluid infusion. In case of severe bleeding, as in Dengue, blood transfusion may be required. Adequate rest and supportive care is an absolute requirement. Although no vaccinatio...

Dengue takes 5 Victims in Bataan, Rizal and Marikina

...emiology Center, said parents should give children paracetamol instead of aspirin if they are suffering from fever adding that children should be taken to a doctor right away if they suspect of dengue symptoms. According to Tayag the Department of Health is implementing its “4-S” program to counter the spread ...

Lakhs Affected As Chikungunya Sweeps Across The Nation

... treatment and the only line of treatment are with paracetamol and fluids. The officials have cautioned that the people have to be more careful and not let water accumulate, as it could be an ideal breeding ground for the mosquito. It also has to be mentioned that as this species is a day-biting mosquito, the co...

Codeine-based painkillers to be used cautiously

...cine having a combination of codeine, caffeine and paracetamol as ingredients. “Excessive use of some types of pain medication also may cause stomach ulcers, liver damage and kidney problems. Patients with symptoms persisting for more than three days should contact their pharmacist or doctor for best advice o...

UK Recommendations On Painkillers Flaunted

...e amounts. The legislation restricted the size of paracetamol packs available to a maximum of 32 tablets of 500 ...ry Agency, also recommends that only one packet of paracetamol should be sold at a time. But evidence from the emergency department of an inner city London teachi...

New Arthritis Drug Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attacks

...thritis should first consider an effective dose of paracetamol and speak with their doctor if they need a medicine to manage the pain. For some people, lumiracoxib may be an appropriate alternative to other medicines in the same class. This medicine has benefits for people at risk of a stomach ulcer, but we don'...

Drug Trial Proves Nightmare for British Indian Student

...in his skull and in his back. He says he was given paracetamol for the pain. By 10.00 a.m. he was slipping in and out of consciousness. Around midnight he was wheeled into Northwick Park's intensive care unit where he was given steroids that his lawyers argue should have been administered almost 16 hours earli...

Painkiller Based on Sea Snail Venom Made Available in Britain

...o headache and injury. While painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen that are administered orally are the first resort those whose pain still persists can be treated with painkillers injected into the spinal fluid, using a pump worn by the patient. Prialt is a synthetic version of the venom used by the ...

Combined Anti-Fever Drug Therapy Proves Unsafe for Childhood Fever

...ing the child to take fluids. The drug options are paracetamol and ibuprofen, and parents commonly give both drug... found very little evidence to support prescribing paracetamol and ibuprofen in combination or alternately. They also found other important gaps in the evidence,...

Spurious Drugs is a Leading Cause of Casualties Among Drug Users

...ies. Especially in the case of cocaine and heroin, paracetamol and diazepam tablets are crushed and mixed with th...anufacture it locally by mixing crushed tablets of paracetamol and diazepam, and sprinkling it with morphine,' the NCB official explained. 'It gives the user the...

A urine test for ease in prescription of drugs and therapies

... before and after treating them with high doses of paracetamol were analysed by the researchers. “The method is more than 90% accurate at classifying the animals as low or high risk. The metabolic pathway is a sum of all things that affect life. Representatives of virtually every metabolic pathway in the bod...

Researchers chides parents for overdosing their kids

...ge is not as per the prescribed limit. For example paracetamol overdose is linked to liver damage. Ibuprofen, if administered on any empty stomach can cause stomach irritation and make the child feel sick. So, what’s the moral of the story? An overdose of anything is bad...even if it is love! And be a parent fi...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

...enerally used to treat cold. But studies show that paracetamol and aspirin worsen asthma and peptic ulcers. Aspirin should not be used in children under 18 years because it may play a role in causing Reye’s syndrome which results in a rare and severe liver and central nervous system condition. Congestion, coug...

Painkillers may raise miscarriage risk

...bryo in the womb.But NSAIDs act on the whole body, paracetamol acts only on the central nervous system, which may explain why it has no effect on pregnancy, the researchers said....

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...onsumers must be aware of the potential hazards of paracetamol more so because it is being marketed in India with...n the United States were associated with excessive paracetamol usage. Also 35% of the study group were found to be suffering from severe liver damage as a result ...

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