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Men happy to take contraception

... are all methods which may have been researched by pharmaceutical companies as convenient times for modes of administration," Dr Weston explained. The most tested method of male contraception is a hormonal suppressant. Testosterone is injected weekly into muscle, suppressing the production of luteinizing hormone an...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

...aded on muscle strength. Correlating that data to pharmaceutical records, the researchers found women on continuous... decline in elderly people," Onder said. "However, pharmaceutical companies are not very interested in ACE-inhibitors right now." ACE inhibitors have been on the mar...

The importance of vaccines

... the problem to the lack of economic incentive for pharmaceutical companies to produce new vaccines or even maintain adequate supplies of existing ones. Pressure from governments to keep the costs of vaccinations low so more people around the world can receive them may actually be counterproductive, because industr...

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...s sell like laxatives, they claim, and even as the pharmaceutical concerns treat the city gynaecologists to five-star meals ostensibly to introduce them to “the revolutionary approach to medical abortion”, the tribe is clearly a worried lot. In a state which has at least 40 per cent of abortions carried out by quac...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

... in the British Medical Journal has suggested that pharmaceutical companies have created a disease out of female sexual disorders and are defining the condition in order to unleash new markets for their products. Drug companies are trying to recreate// the kind of market that Viagra, the drug used to treat male im...

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

...sitive cash flow for 2002, eight additional global pharmaceutical partnerships and an impressive drug discovery plat...ent costs, competitive environment, involvement of pharmaceutical partners, time to market and potential markets for future drugs. The new structure is expected to dr...

Biosensor chip to help drug development

...velopment, will enable tests of the effects of new pharmaceutical compounds on living neurons, contributing to greater efficiency and productivity in research. The findings of the study presented in the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), also included the first report on measurements of electric...

SARS: India's drugs in demand

...fected countries like China approaching the Indian pharmaceutical companies for additional supplies. Macrolides are ...d as a preferred drug// in treating SARS. Indian pharmaceutical companies have reported that order inquiries have gone up by four to five times from China and South...

Secret behind Babies soft skin

...d lotions. Collaborations have also been made with pharmaceutical companies involved in skin care. This could help premature babies born without vernix....

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

...O) drug deal as a positive development, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has said it will enable smaller and poorer nations to make full use of the flexibility in the WTO intellectual property rules in order to deal with diseases that ravage their population. The WTO yesterday had approved a deal to let the poor...

It's Never Too Late to Stop Smoking,Study Finds

... "At a time when we're struggling with the cost of pharmaceutical coverage for patients with chronic heart disease, we tend to lose sight of the importance of smoking cessation," he said. "It's an important preventive measure for morbidity and mortality in heart failure, which can be achieved at little or no cost."...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...e over the long run, hurting seniors and enriching pharmaceutical companies and HMOs. "We were shut out of these negotiations ... and what we have here now is an evisceration of Medicare," said Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. The House and Senate each passed their own versions of a Medicare drug bill earlier this yea...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

... (like MSF) and faith-based groups, the efforts of pharmaceutical companies to reduce the prices of AIDS treatment, the contribution of international foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the initiative and hard work of many national and international agencies, and, critically, the courageous cont...

New Technique to Study Infants Brain.

..., and the doctors say it does not use radiation or pharmaceutical injections. Infants were asleep during the procedure, but not sedated. The infants listened to tapes consisting of scanner noise, nonsense speech, and "motherese" speech. Doctors found definite left-side-dominant activation patterns when the infants...

Variations In ingredients From Brand to Brand

...not have to be made to the same rigid standards as pharmaceutical products....

Risky Drugs To Be Avoided In The Elderly

... in older people. Thus researchers point out that pharmaceutical databases could be an important tool to monitor the use of risky drugs in the elderly population....

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

..., and the doctors say it does not use radiation or pharmaceutical injections. Infants were asleep during the procedure, but not sedated. The infants listened to tapes consisting of scanner noise, nonsense speech, and "motherese" speech. Doctors found definite left-side-dominant activation patterns when the infants...

Banning the drug Valdecoxib In India

...vere skin reactions. Although some of the leading pharmaceutical companies have stopped manufacturing it and have withdrawn the drug from the Indian market, a few leading companies differ in opinion and have adopted a “wait and watch” approach as a result of which they have still not withdrawn the drug from the ma...

Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops

...harma –Planta say that the plants will be grown in pharmaceutical production units on dedicated land , isolated from...s well as to engineer them to contain a gene for a pharmaceutical product and most importantly they could produce large quantities of drugs or vaccines at low cost. ...

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc awarded the prestigious outstanding supplier award received from Wal-Mart

...ubsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s largest pharmaceutical company and is mainly engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system. RPI had received this commendation for consistency of products and programmes provided to Wal-Mart. Officials at Wa...

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