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Need For Smarter Ways To Identify Fake Drugs & Internet Counterfeiting: WHO

...ts of unwanted pregnancy from use of birth control pills made out of flour has demanded the establishment of International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT). Criminals are becoming smarter day-by-day that makes it difficult to detect such illegal practices. The problem associated wi...

Losing Sleep over Money or Money over Sleep? Sleep over It!

...on and about 35 million prescriptions for sleeping pills in 2004, according to Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Z pills—like Ambien and Lunesta, are ruling the sleepless , and rendering the drug market alive and kicking. Sleep centers are mushrooming by the dozen with promises of detecting dormant sleep diso...

Women With Fewer Periods Have Low Risk Of Gynecological Cancer

...o skip their menstrual cycle through contraceptive pills or other methods are less likely to develop cancers// related to the female reproductive system such as cervical cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer. Though the common perception is that regular menses means 'a good cleanout' but too much menstr...

Sterol Containing Pills, Good For The Heart

...udy, it might not be long before sterol-containing pills are made commercially available....

Plants have ability to significantly lower LDL cholesterol through sterol pills

...cholesterol lowering ability. They have found that pills containing plant substances called sterols which c...lf were randomly assigned to take inactive placebo pills while the rest took sterol tablets. All patients ingested four tablets, twice daily with meals, whil...

Ignorance in the Usage of Pill Persists Among Many Women

...ree hours. Nearly seven out of ten women forget pills at their residence during the holiday season. 50% of the women forget to take pills during the holidays. Only a minority followed instructions on what action to take to avoid pregna...

HIV Infection Rates on the Rise in Victoria

... is due to the development and availability of the pills and medications against the HIV infection. Most gay men still engage in safe sex but there has been a rise in unsafe sex. Sean Slavin, the co-author of the La Trobe study conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society said t...

Drugs Are Effective In Treating Depression and Preventing Recurrence

...otherapy, psychotherapy with dummy pills, or dummy pills alone. The results of the study were that about on...ber of people went in to depression who took dummy pills alone. Though the numbers are small, experts say that it is difficult to recruit elderly volunteer...

Deadly 'abortion pill' takes two more lives

...In the four California cases, the second course of pills was administered vaginally, an "off-label" use tha...n who died, including the latest two, received the pills at Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics, said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, the organization's vice presiden...

Teenagers Get Hooked To Ecstasy

Michael Evans, 17 died after taking 13 ecstasy pills to impress his friends at a pub. He was there to celebrate a friend's birthday. One hour later Michael suffered from mild epilepsy at his pal’s place. He started to get hot before suffering a massive heart attack. //His friends tried to revive him bu...

Manic Ecstasy: Man gets Into a Frenzy after a Record Consumption of 40,000 ecstasy tablets

... highest record ever of consuming 40,000 //ecstasy pills in his life. Mr. A had absolutely no competition, as the second position for the’ecstacy’ record went to a certain person who was said to have consumed 2000 tablets. Psychosomatics, a journal, has made these details public. Mr A, not too old at 37, ...

Online Sale of Abortion Pills

...were emergency contraceptives, three were abortion pills and one was a contraceptive pill. The drugs may cause heavy vaginal bleeding, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. So far the ministry had not yet received any reports of people who had suffered adverse reactions from taking the drugs. The ministry sai...

Confusion Prevails Over the Risk and Benefits of Hormone Therapy

...st cancers diagnosed for women on the active study pills when compared to those taking harmless sugar pills. But the tumors were significantly larger and had a tendency to spread to more lymph nodes. The women taking estrogen had slightly fewer breast cancers but they had more follow-up mammograms and bio...

Herbal Preparation Effective For Treating Short Term Low-Back Pain

...ba) and cayenne (Capsicum frutescens) against sham pills and against Vioxx, the painkiller since removed from the market amid concerns over its long-term safety. “The results of these 10 trials suggest that specific herbal medicines may be effective for short-term (four to six weeks) improvement in pain ...

46-Year-Old Canada Man Donates A Part Of His Liver To A Complete Stranger

...nd medications every six hours -- in fact about 40 pills a day and had to be on a severely restricted low-protein diet. Where do you turn to for hope? Hope for us came in the form of an angel-donor named Kevin', said a letter from the recipient's family. The potential donor had to face 12 hours of extens...

Women Fail to Take Calcium Pills Regularly; High Risk of Bone Fractures

...llenge therefore is to encourage women to take the pills everyday, said the researchers. The researchers recruited nearly 1,460 healthy women over 70 years of age for the study to determine their compliance rates associated with intake of calcium supplements (600 mp pills, to be taken twice daily). All ...

Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case

...e pills, had applied three years ago to sell these pills over the counter. FDA repeatedly delayed a decision on its application, following scientific and legal concerns. Abortion rights advocates, former FDA officials and other lawmakers claimed that the delays had resulted from politics. The FDA was s...

Drug Approved to Curb Alcohol Dependency

... drugs, while some received a placebo, and some no pills at all. Besides this most subjects were also medically managed by encouraging them to abstain from alcohol and consistently take their medication. In addition some participants underwent specialized behavioral therapy. The research evaluated relaps...

Need for More Talking Therapies for Treating Depression

...o give pregnant women who are depressed depression pills instead of therapy because of the shortage although research has suggested that there could be a risk that the baby will be premature, too small or experience withdrawal from the drugs they were exposed to in the womb. A spokesman said: ‘This is a ...

Antiviral Drugs May Be Useful For Easing Shingles Pain

... for 14 days. They then took three 1,000-milligram pills of the drug valacyclovir per day for one month. The patients rated their pain on a scale of zero to 10 before they began treatment, then again after completing each therapy, and again one month after completing treatment. As reported online this ...

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