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Health Canada Warns Of Potential Health Hazards Due To A Cough Medication

...lable over counters as a natural health product at pharmacies and retail outlets in Canada. The health authorities have announced that consumers who have used this product and are having concerns about their health should contact their physicians or health care practitioner. They also explained that the compa...

High Demand for Weight Mgmt Product in European Pharmacies

...countries: to date, Slim 10/10 is on shelf in 1600 pharmacies in Spain and at key retailers such as El Corte Ingles, in 1200 pharmacies in Belgium and in 400 pharmacies in Portugal. Slim 10/10(TM) is a single effective 7.5g dose of Ol...

Morning-After Pill At The Local Pharmacy Could Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies

...prevented by providing morning-after pill at local pharmacies //as they have the advantage of easy access. UK r...d between 15 and 17, while 74 per cent who went to pharmacies were between 16 and 18. · 25 per cent visited the pharmacy over the weekend and 26 per cent on a M...

A furore over tailor-made menopause medication

...e Drug Manufacturer, Wyeth to restrain the special pharmacies that develop tailor made hormone drugs to treat me...es. Wyeth has requested the FDA to restrain these pharmacies with seizures, injunctions, and warning letters, as some of them could be cheating women with produ...

More Than ￡500m Wasted On Drugs; MP Blames NH

... Health to establish profit levels and ensure that pharmacies are neither over or underpaid for their NHS services,' added Sue Sharpe, Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee. br>...

New lease of life for asthmatics by Accentia Biopharmaceuticals

...e-counting inhalers. MD Turbo will be available at pharmacies in May of this year. Gary Cantrell, TEAMM Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing said, "MDIs are most often used as rescue medications during acute attacks. Improper dosing and other misuses can lead to negative outcomes, such as the exac...

Project Stop to Block the Misuse of Cold and Flu Drugs

...harmacies. Mr Sclavos also said that about 15 % of pharmacies no longer stock pseudoephedrine-based products and...advantage to the innocent consumers. But now those pharmacies can return those products to the shelf and sell them with confidence....

Government Should Provide Incentives For Methadone Program

...aled that the program has the involvement of three pharmacies only, and expansion is possible only if more were to get involved. As many as 120 people are serviced by the Hobart pharmacy, according to the Pharmacy Guild. Better incentives are required to get the involvement of more pharmacies. The cost that the...

Medications Detected In Recycled Water In Los Angeles

...d Orange counties will begin distributing cards to pharmacies in March advising customers not to flush down any medications but to wrap them and put them in the trash....

Statins Prescribed To Those Who Are At a Risk Of Developing A Heart Disease

...only simvastatin, is available over the counter in pharmacies in a low 10mg dose. The price of the drug is falling due to its growing demands. NHS is estimating the price to fall down to ￡9m. According to the new guidelines Nice has asked the doctors to check the risk of developing a heart disease in patien...

Government To Clamp Down On Crystal Meth

...eth. //The supermarkets and drug stores which have pharmacies will however not be affected by the ban which will come into force from 10 April 2006. Only pharmacists will be able to sell about 15 medicines which are of the single ingredient category. This is inclusive of Sudafed Decongestant 12-hour caplets, Tr...

Himachal Pradesh Government To Cancel Licences Of Some Ayurveda Units

...imachal Pradesh to come down heavily upon ayurveda pharmacies which do not measure up to the minimum quality// s...tate health department visited around 70 ayurvedic pharmacies in the state and found 11 units not fulfilling the GMP," he said, declining to be named. The statewi...

Huge demand for high street chlamydia tests

Boots pharmacies have handed out over 6,000 chlamydia testing kits ...er tests. By making this free service available in pharmacies on the high street, people will find it easier to call in for a screening test - helping to speed up...

Medicare Queries Expected To Increase Over Time

...acist to enquire about the new plan. Infact, a few pharmacies have even called for additional pharmacists. "We're expecting a lot of people to deal with this today," said Andrew Cacciapaglia, a pharmaceutical technician at Eckerd in Bellmore. Recipients of Medicaid would be enrolled into the program automatic...

New Medicare Plan - Mixed Reaction among Pharmacists.

...But on the other hand the profit level of the many pharmacies will diminish greatly. The business will be back but the cash flow and the reimbursements from the insurance companies will be affected. In According to the present system the pharmacy received cash from Medicare recipients Because initially they...

Chlamydia Screening To Be Offered With Emergency Contraception

... Young women asking for the morning-after pill at pharmacies will be given a discreet plain purple box, containing a bottle for their urine sample, free postage and a confidential questionnaire offering them a variety of ways they can receive their diagnosis within three working days. If the event of a Chla...

IGF-1 drug approved by FDA

...ke Genetech for treatment of diabetes and Cephalon pharmacies IGF-1 drug against Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis had been withdrawn due to its side effects in patients. ...

One In Nine Young Women Diagnosed With Chlamydia Infection

...itional health care settings such as universities, pharmacies and armed forces bases." The programme is being extended to all other parts of England and is aimed at offering a full coverage by 2007. In the first year of the National Chlamydia Screening programme (NCSP), launched in 2003, around 18,000 people ...

45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

...e benefit of the people and the functioning of the pharmacies and hospitals to be monitored by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Gopal Sarkar, Chief Medical Officer of Malda his not happy with the hospital infrastructure and facilities to treat patients who were infected by suspected Japanese encephali...

Indian Health Ministry approves sale of Emergency contraceptives as over the counter drug

Emergency contraceptives will be available in pharmacies as over the counter drug with out medical prescription in India, which will enable women to avoid unnecessary pregnancy. The decision was announced// by the Indian Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, on informing the governments decision the minister ...

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