popular 1 4

Tag: "popular" at medical news

Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past

...ealed how Buckingham, a member of Fleetwood Mac, a popular Anglo-American band, had taken shots of Jack Daniel's and "California gold and guzzled beer, while attending the 1978 American Music Awards. Harris writes the year when the band had won the Album of the Year, Buckingham looked like a character from...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ntent of bringing together 150 of the world's most popular music acts and drawing a worldwide audience of 2 b...the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, will feature popular national singers as well as Britain's Sarah Brightman, and be broadcast across the country by the Sh...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...ot in immediate danger of a heart attack. But this popular procedure, which typically uses stents to keep an unclogged vessel open, is still a powerful tool for saving those who are having a heart attack or are at high risk of one. Patients for the study enrolled between July 1999 through December 2005 and...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

...s for in-shell sunflower seeds. The seeds are also popular among truckers, who eat and chew them during long trips to help them stay active. It is also meant for those who engage in high energy activities like adventure sports, hunting and fishing. The company states that the caffeine content is equivalent t...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

... licenses for AIDS drugs Kaletra and Efavirenz and popular heart disease medicine Plavix. The government plans to import generic versions of the drugs from India, but could also choose to manufacture them itself....

Students Join Hands to Save Green Cover in Delhi

... out that for a sport such as Rugby that is not so popular in India, let alone the students of DU, felling of so many trees is unjustified. As an alternative, they suggest that the sprawling University ground near Vijay Nagar in the north campus itself can be used for this purpose. The petition reminds the...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

Most Americans are familiar with the popular city rankings of the fattest cities, the fittest c...ent of all respondents who did not agree with this popular belief and 13 percentage points higher than the 32 percent average for all adults. "District of C...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

...vulnerable people and communities. It became so popular ever since its origin that almost all healthcare workers started to identify themselves with the symbol. The society is still fighting to have this rectified. 'When the British Ruled India there were no organisations that could provide relief serv...

Recommended Doses of Herbal Supplement Do Not Interfere With Drug Absorption

... non-prescription drugs raised concerns that other popular herbal supplements might cause similar changes, thus significantly altering drugs therapeutic or toxic effects. What, for example, about ginseng and ginkgo biloba, two of the most widely used herbal supplements in this and other countries, Speaking...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

...nefold. Also called atypicals, they have become popular because they can settle almost any extreme behavior, often in minutes, and doctors have few other answers for desperate families. Their growing use in children is closely tied to the increasingly common and controversial diagnosis of pediatric bipo...

Children Using Slide in Playground Treated for Exposure to Poisoning

...sday when a five-year-old kid , sliding down in a popular playground, came into contact with a some sticky b...ury Mayor Tony Zapia said the foreshore park was a popular meeting point for local youth and that security cameras would be installed in four to six weeks to m...

Anemia Drug Overused and Could Hasten Death in Some, Say Experts

... US Food and Drug Administration has said that the popular anemia drug could indeed be overused. In some cases it could be proving fatal. While the panel did not recommend specific changes to the official instruction for the drug's use, it did ask the FDA to gather much more data on erythropoietin's safety...

Thin People may Be Internally Fat

...the percentage was still more alarming at 60%. A popular misconception, that a low-fat diet allows you to stay thin, spurred food manufacturers in America to produce a variety of processed, "fat-free" foods. But sadly, these processed diet foods often contained other fat-producing ingredients such as overd...

Doubling Plavix Dose Recommended Before Angioplasty

...effects of Plavix, (generic name clopidogrel), the popular anti-blood-clotting drug . A new study reveals doubling the current recommended dose of Plavix to angioplasty patients, from 300 milligrams to 600, cut the combined risk of heart attack and cardiac death by half. Dr. Anthony Abbate, an assistant ...

Its the Face and Not the Body That Grips the Attention of the Opposite Sex

Contrary to popular opinion, its not that killer body that the opposit...ire person" ratings. They found that contrary to popular belief, faces are more apparently more important to people, especially women, reports the New Scient...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...n, admitting it had made false claims about their popular painkiller Oxycontin. They have agreed to pay up $634.5 millions for making false claims about the drug to boost sales and also pleaded guilty to charges of playing down Oxycontins addictive and euphoric properties. Purdue pleaded guilty to a fel...

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

...l Australian feminists have denounced Telegraph, a popular daily, for carrying a large picture of an abandoned infant girl and a caption alongside , How could she? The all too obvious reference to the mother who abandoned the girl, for whatever reason, has infuriated many who say the newspaper has been in...

Yoga Should Not Be Patented: Ramdev

...ng that yoga was a centuries-old Indian tradition, popular yoga guru Swami Ramdev urged the government and yoga organizations to prevent it from being patented overseas. "Since there are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the Indian government and yoga organizations should take meas...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...the Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) in Kodaikanal, a popular hill station in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu , traveled all the way to Bombay in western India and addressed the media on Wednesday to urge the companys share-holders to raise to raise the issues of mercury contamination and long term medi...

Ramdev Starts Yoga Camp in Shimla

...s been specially prepared on the outskirts of this popular tourist destination for the week-long course that ends May 22. Organisers said some 10,000 people, including Himachal Pradesh governor V.S.Kokje, attended the first day of the course. The state transport department has made special arrangements t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10