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The IPU Want Morning After Pills To Be Made Available Over The Counter

...r discretion, gave around four high dose oestrogen pills to women, which had to be taken within 72 hours of having sex and often made patients feel sick. The Irish Medicines Board had previously refused to licence Levonelle because it viewed it as 'abortifacient' that is a drug used to induces an abortio...

The Aids Programme In Zambia Reported As A Success

...ntrary to predictions by many, patients took their pills regularly, came to clinics for follow-up checks and have survived. Further explaining that the survival rates could be compare to those seen in the developed world, Stringer said, 'The majority of patients that we started on therapy, had they not ga...

Formation of Blood Clots During Travel Independent of Form of Travel

...e the thrombosis struck. Women on contraceptive pills carry a high risk of vein thrombosis, researchers said. The presence of a specific mutation in the gene in charge of clotting, termed as the V Leiden, also increased the risk of clotting by almost eight times. The obese also need to be guarded, as th...

Bush Supports Restriction to ‘Morning–After’ Pll

...drug in 1999. It is a set of two high-dose hormone pills which can prevent pregnancy provided it is taken within 72 hours of sexual intercourse. Supporters of the wide access to the drug include the American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood who say that easing access to the drug would lead to ...

Extra Vaginal Bleed After ‘C’ Section Can be Prevented By Contraceptive Pils

A new study finds that taking oral contraceptive pills after caesarean sections can prevent vaginal bleed...icine have announced today that oral contraceptive pills could prevent vaginal bleeding between menstrual cycles after a caesarean section. The further expla...

Delhi Police Seized 4,400 kg of Banned Drug Mandrax

...he pharmaceutical market as non-addictive sleeping pills and was also used for other medicinal uses, especially to treat high blood pressure and anxiety attacks. However, the drug's abuse potential soon surfaced leading to its being listed in the 1971 United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substa...

Government Failed to Prevent Rising Teen Pregnancies

...nt's campaign had failed to hand out morning-after pills to teenagers.This was revealed by the rising numbe...nancy Strategy that gives teens easy access to the pills in pharmacies, as well as in schools. Over the past six years there has been an immense rise in th...

Molecular Medicine And Diabetes

... Instead of frequent insulin injections, they take pills twice a day. "As long as they take their pills, ...o longer gets insulin. She takes five sulfonylurea pills twice a day, for now. That will be reduced to two as her team settles on the optimal dose. "Lilly ...

Contraceptive Patch Carries Risk of Blood clots

...n women who take a daily birth-control pill. These pills typically contain 35 micrograms of estrogen. These higher levels of estrogen put some women at increased risk of blood clots. Dr. Steven R. Goldstein, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University School of Medicine said, "When the...

Canada: On Popular Demand, Tamiflu finds a Berth in the Directory of Patent Drugs

...vering between 500,000 and one million oseltamivir pills on a single day. The company is working towards its immediate goal of ensuring that the drugs hit the shelf in the next 6 months. Swiss drug maker Hoffman-La Roche, a patent holder for Tamiflu, is working overtime to hoard the drug, needed to defen...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...nd a Hyderabad-based company will produce the oral pills in India," he said. "Since the cost will be around $15 (about Rs.700), the villagers can now afford treatment," he added. Sunder, also a professor of medicine at the Banaras Hindu University, said: "The state government had set up a committee to ...

Laws That Make Parental Consent Mandatory Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior

...could transmit gonorrhea. The use of birth control pills also would not protect against the sexually transmitted disease. The researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Control to determine the rates of gonorrhea for women by age and race for the years 1981 through 1998. Gonorrhea rates for teenag...

Amphetamine Abuse Worst In Asia

...vered and in Thailand 15.8 million methamphetamine pills uncovered last year. "It's no longer just those who are socially disaffected that are using drugs but also a middle class that are aspiring to greater wealth and prosperity and, along with that, aspiring to the lifestyle and customs of developed-w...

Abortion Notification, Consent Laws Reduce Risky Teen Sex

...could transmit gonorrhea. The use of birth control pills also would not protect against the sexually transmitted disease. The researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Control to determine the rates of gonorrhea for women by age and race for the years 1981 through 1998. Gonorrhea rates for teena...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

...rom within. Numerous manufacturers are lining up pills and potions designed to get under the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin, with the aim of smoothing out those unsightly lines, enhancing a natural sun tan or simply helping to counteract the scourge of cellulite. Werner Voss, who heads the ...

Cipla launches 3-in-1 AIDS drug in India

...s.” The innovative treatment kits and the 3-in-1 pills introduced by Cipla will promote adherence and ease of use.Viraday is the most remarkable accomplishment of Cipla. Cipla has brought down the price of HIV/AIDS drugs in international market. It supplies HIV/AIDS drugs to majority of African, South ...

A Bad Swirl for the Good Old Whiff–Coffee

... a food product. We want people ingesting caffeine pills and supplements to know that caffeine is a drug, and overuse is potentially harmful, especially when mixed with other pharmaceuticals for euphoria.” The patients who participated in McCarthy’s study were 21 years old, on an average and they had cons...

Madhya Pradesh Tops in Implementing Child Health Scheme

...lanced diet. People are often seduced into buying pills because they're worried that food has fewer nutrients than it used to, said Jane Clarke. The best source of vitamins and minerals is freshly picked produce, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. In an ideal world, everybody would grow their o...

Balanced Diet is Better than Vitamin Pills

...lanced diet. People are often seduced into buying pills because they're worried that food has fewer nutrients than it used to, said Jane Clarke. The best source of vitamins and minerals is freshly picked produce, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. In an ideal world, everybody would grow their o...

Irish Medicines Board Extends Paracetamol Recall To All Batches

... Last month, the Board had recalled a batch of the pills , but has now decided to include all batches in the withdrawal due to contamination.The blister packs have not been affected. MAL...

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