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Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

Walmex, the popular retailer in Mexico has opened the channels to make... laboratories will be 90% cheaper than the cost of popular over-the-counter drugs. Walmex will be buying the drugs from labs such as Canifarma that caters to...

School Teen’s Sudden Death Linked To Bacterial Meningiti

... deal with the death of Brodie Campbell, who was a popular student at his school- Dr. Charles Best Secondary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The Fraser Health Authority has now confirmed the reason of death as bacterial meningitis. As a mode of precaution, health officials are also offering anti...

Pfizer Awaits FDA Approval for New AIDS Drug, Maraviroc

...ontain the HIV virus when used in combination with popular drugs.// The drug, in question named as maravi...a placebo. All patients received a mix of the most popular and recommended drugs in use to treat HIV. The FDA reviewers have agreed with the manufacturer’s ana...

Qigong Help Chronically Ill People to Cope With Anxiety and Discrimination

... already studying the health benefits of this very popular therapy when SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – hit Hong Kong" explains lead author Judy Yuen-man Siu, who carried out the research in the Department of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Chronically ill people, like the ...

MEND - Child Obesity Programme Records Success

...ealth. It costs the nation ￡7 billion a year. This popular community-based programme has the potential to underpin effective national strategies for obesity treatment and prevention." The programme envisages assisting 26000 children across 300 areas. /...

Loans for Cosmetic Surgery in Lebanon

...as their life raft,' a bank official said.The most popular procedures are nose jobs - which cost a fraction of what most people pay in Europe or the US - followed by liposuction and botox. Liposuction is a surgical procedure intended to remove fat deposits and shape the body. Fat is removed from under the ...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

...oral hypocrisy of so-called normal society and the popular crowd. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who mowed down 12 fellow students and a teacher in 1999 before killing themselves in a Columbine school, openly declared that their planned massacre was intended to ignite a nationwide uprising. "We're going...

Junk Food Ad Overkill Shows Urgent Ban Needed

... that 65.9 per cent of advertisements aired during popular children’s television programs are for foods high in fat and sugar. The Coalition on Food Advertising to Children (CFAC), of which the AMA is a member, earlier this year sent a comprehensive briefing paper on the impact on children of junk food ad...

Popular Herbal Supplement Hinders the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...les Convention Center. Triphala, one of the most popular herbal preparations in the world, is used for the treatment of intestinal-related disorders. It is typically taken with water and thought to promote appetite and digestion and to increase the number of red blood cells. "We discovered that triphala ...

Antidepressants- Not Harmful To Children And Youths

...ts are in fact, not dangerous. This is contrary to popular notions established// mainly before 2004, by various studies that linked suicidal thoughts and such attempts, to the use of antidepressants. These studies had in fact resulted in the Food and Drug Administration of United States allocating the...

Dipyrone may Treat Headaches -- but Use With Caution

...sorders such as agranulocytosis. It is, however, a popular analgesic in many parts of the world including South America, India, South Africa, Russia and several European countries. Oral doses can be bought over the counter in Brazil and Spain. A group of Cochrane Researchers set out to evaluate whether dip...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...utes of Health study found no clear proof that the popular supplement combo glucosamine and chondroitin reduces joint pain. While glucosamine is believed to stimulate production of cartilage-building proteins, chondroitin may inhibit production of cartilage-destroying enzymes and fight inflammation too. C...

Infections in UK Hospitals Drive British Patients to India

... 25 per cent rise over the previous year. The most popular destinations were India, Hungary and Turkey. Patie...he website Treatment Abroad, dentistry is the most popular service with treatments such as crowns, dental implants, bridges and veneers leading the way. More...

New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

...eir patients to be converted to a male. "This is a popular belief and there is nothing wrong. If these male cannot procreate a child yet they can have a good married life. They can adopt a child or so." He said when patients come to us in an early stage, we diagnose them and through medicine control secret...

Fish Oil - Foils Cognitive Decline

... our// regular diet. Omega-3 fatty acids, the most popular component in fish has always hogged the spotlight for its health benefits. Two recent studies conducted by Dutch researchers suggest that Omega -3 rich seafood could protect against age-connected cognitive-decline. During the study, researchers e...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...er treatments. Some of the world's most potent and popular medicines fall into this biotech basket, and existing federal laws prevent them from going generic. Conventional drugs are synthesized by putting atoms together from basic chemicals and are often in pill form. Biotech drugs, also known as biolo...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...tions and even constipation. It is increasingly popular in the country. While a few years ago men would spend a couple of hours a day on their habit, many now chew happily away for seven or eight hours. Within the last five years or so khat use has become much more accepted among women. Of the country'...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...professors at the University of Minnesota Duluth.A popular tourist spot,it is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. Summer surface temperatures on this famously cold lake have increased about 4.5 degrees since 1979, compared with about a 2.7-degree increase in the region's annual averag...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

... the beverage giant that it uses pesticides in its popular drinks. It is also alleged that the company's operations in the country have led to severe water shortages for thousands of people living in the vicinity of its bottling plants, and government studies have confirmed illegal dumping of toxic waste ...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

...ug as a result. Stomach bug or stomach flu is a popular name for viral gastroenteritis, an infection of the intestines caused by a virus. In the instant case the disease has been triggered by cryptosporidium, a parasite commonly found in lakes and rivers, especially when the water is contaminated with ...

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