Drugs Banned worldwide still available in India
...turers and to suit the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical companies thereby affecting the drug regulatory mechanism in India and until such issues are not sorted out the existing situation would prevail. ...FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus
...elist. FDA is reviewing the drugs and advising the pharmaceutical industries to provide more information to the cons...clear warning to the consumers about the drug. The pharmaceutical companies should give clear indications about the test results in a clearly understandable way by ta......advanced biomedical research facilities and strong pharmaceutical industry which has developed cheap and effective AIDS drugs that are exported across the globe....Maintaining a Pharma index could help track price fluctuations
...dian government is in the process of instituting a pharmaceutical price// index similar to the wholesale price index in order to track drug price fluctuations for price-related decisions. At present, the government is relying on the retail audit of market research agency ORG-IMS for drug price revisions. However it...Slowing Down The Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease
... and initially sought to develop the compound as a pharmaceutical but over the last two years has changed its focus to the nutraceutical market and is now in discussions with partners to market Colostrinin for the 'maintenance of healthy mental function'. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on 106 people ...FDA To Set New Guidelines To Revise Drug Companies Marketing Tactics
...prescription drug advertisements. The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are facing pressure to alter advertising ...quately disclose risks. FDA's last broad review of pharmaceutical industry advertising led to revised guidelines in 1997 that "set off a surge in ads say reports. T...Antibiotic from crab blood indentified
...n 25 years to test for the presence of bacteria in pharmaceutical products and medical devices, the discovery of binding and killing properties are new. This new protein is highly effective against gram negative bacteria and even a microscopic dosage can kill 100 billion bacteria in 15 minutes. This shortness...Breakthrough in cancer therapy
...pply to the region. Recently researchers from the pharmaceutical firm Glaxo Wellcome have designed compounds that have successfully prevented CIA hair loss in rats. CIA occurs because many anticancer drugs work by killing cells that are rapidly dividing. These cells include normal epithelial cells in the hair foll...Prohibited diet medicine found in Chinese herbs
.... Instead, researchers found fenfluramine, a diet pharmaceutical that was part of the popular weight loss cocktail called "Fen-phen." Fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine were pulled from the market by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997 after numerous reports the off-label cocktail combo increased the risk of he...Obesity Hormone -' Leptin' may treat Metabolic Disorder
... of Health and the Thousand Oaks, California-based pharmaceutical company Amgen, which supplied the leptin product....Drugs Manufacturers Capitalizing On The Surge In Demand For Bone Health Care
... benefits from a substantial price difference with pharmaceutical products. Women, at greater risk of osteoporosis after menopause, tend to stop taking bone health supplements as menopause symptoms subside, and on average only take the products for between one and two years not long enough to see the positive eff...Surgeons Presented Guidelines For Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation
...ng to cardiac pacing, anticoagulation therapy // , pharmaceutical prophylaxis, intraoperative interventions, and pharmacologic control of ventricular rate and rhythm. Over one third of patients suffer from AF after cardiac surgery, which is associated with a higher risk of operative morbidity, increased hospital ...Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness
...als, now known as AstraZeneca. These Chemical and pharmaceutical companies are making huge profits from breast canc...feller family in 1913. Members of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry have long had a place on its board. Could that have something to do with the fact that the ...The effects of Curcumin: a natural pigment in turmeric explored for its anti-cancer properties
... never develops into cancer.There are surgical and pharmaceutical ways to reduce acid reflux, but no firm link has been made between Barrett’s esophagus and esophagal cancer. The study will involve 40 to 50 patients with Barrett’s esophagus, who will take curcumin supplements for just a few days. Between five and...Pharma Companies May Influence The Decisions Of Medical Students
...essively fewer boundaries between medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, which spends $12 billion to $18 billion ...cle. This includes 60 million visits annually by pharmaceutical representatives and most of the $1.54 billion spent annually on continuing medical education. Drug c...Child Friendly Zidovudine Preparation for treating HIV infection Approved By The FDA
...an anti-AIDS drug developed by the Hyderabad based pharmaceutical company- “Aurobindo Pharma”. It is the first tentatively approved generic version of child-friendly zidovudine oral solution, according to reports by the FDA. The drug has been approved following the fulfillment of the safety, efficacy and quality st...Nanotechnology Revolution To Be Spearheaded By European Union
...ce a new medicine. We won't go faster, even if the pharmaceutical companies would like to shorten the wait," he added. Using Nanotechnology, the cost of hospitalization and surgery will be reduced. Hospitals will continue to treat difficult cases but many patients would be able to recover at home, lowering costs. ...Proper Validation of Generic Drugs Could Save Millions of AIDS Patients
...ested properly as branded drugs produced by global pharmaceutical companies and comment generic drugs as “dubious”, “cheap”, and “deadly”, though it is commented by some critics in reality generic drugs offer the most affordable and best treatment for infected people in developing countries. It is the fundamental...New drug for breast cancer prevention produced by Arimidex
...r. The new drug that is being manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Arimidex is said to prevent occurrence of recurrence of breast cancer after surgery. Arimidex claims that its new drug is 26% more effective than the current drugs in preventing breast cancer recurrence. The Breast Cancer Care Scotland his ve......otine injection, CYT002 - NicQb, patented by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Cytos, works by building antibodies in the blood that stop nicotine from getting to the brain, it said. The vaccine has so far proved to be successful as it has already passed one preliminary test. Forty percent of the participating smokers q...