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Tag: "price" at medical news

To Die For: Rolls-Royce and 'green' Coffins at British Funerals

...Fearn makes around 100 such caskets per year, at a price of around 250 pounds each, featuring illustrations of motorcycles or animals, or even decked out in the colours of the deceased's favourite football team. These coffins can be prepared within 48 hours and are hand-painted with environmentally-friendl...

Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

...ody of evidence that there is also a physiological price to be paid for insufficient time under the sheets. The study found that a sleep deficit built up over just five nights can significantly stress the heart. The researchers tested the cardiac function of their 39 volunteers twice -- once at the begi...

Medical Marijuana to Be Legalized

...rocure it through the black market for a very high price which is financially crippling. And because marijuana is an illegal substance, people who sell pot to such patients could still face criminal charges. On June 1, the Connecticut State Senate, following the House, passed a bill that allows people wi...

New Anti Fungal Drug Eraxis as Good as the Older Medicine

...en its safety, overall efficacy, and low cost. The price of echinocandins has dropped substantially but remains several fold higher than that of generic fluconazole," they wrote in a commentary, also published in the Journal. A second study, conducted in Italy, found that giving fluconazole prophylactica...

Breast Reduction Surgery Among Boys Rising in US

...and wearing a compression garment for a month. The price range is $4,000 to $10,000, depending on the complexity of the procedure. Yet others argue that once breasts brought down to the normal size for a male, the boy could go for exercises in the open air without too much of an inhibition....

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

... that society says they should have and paying the price for having had it, he said. Not surprisingly, women were more likely to believe that being sexually active had negative social consequences, Perrin said. Women endorsed at higher rates waiting longer to have sex and not engaging in premarital se...

Alli- a New Weapon for War Against the Bulges

... dramatic results from taking the drug. The retail price for Alli is $49.95 for a starter package of 60, $64.95 for a starter package of 90, and $76.95 for the refill package of 120 capsules. The drug maker emphasizes that people can only take alli when eating 15 grams of fat at each meal and upto three p...

Wipro Goes Green With Eco-friendly Desktops, Laptops

...eenWare range of products does not carry a premium price tag. They are available at regular price points," Vaidya said....

HIV Drugs Unaffordable for Common Man: Kalam

...nies have done formidable job in bringing down the price of first and second line HIV drugs, Kalam said: "Even this reduction does not make the drug affordable to the common man in our country." Speaking at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS) at Sevagram, he said: "We have Technology Vis...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...icky situation. It will have to settle for a lower price of the drug or else face the chances of the drug being stripped of its patent or a compulsory license issued against it. Meanwhile the Thai government has made a move dubbed a lifesaver, by its AIDS activists- the government has stripped the paten...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

...eds, sell for almost two dollars, nearly twice the price of normal sunflower seeds. The manufacturers are now working to get them into nationwide distribution. Currently being sold only at a Sioux Falls drug store chain, Sumseeds would soon be available on shelves in Minneapolis and the Southeast. Al...

National Pharmaceutical Policy Referred to Ministerial Panel

...nd their formulations, in accordance with the drug price control order, are under price control and their prices are fixed or revised by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA...

Brazil Will Purchase Merck’s Antiretroviral If Price Not Lowere

...ot issue the decree "as a threat, nor to lower the price of other medicines, but to guarantee its program o...il has given Merck seven days to negotiate a lower price for the drug. According to the AP/Forbes, if the two sides do not agree on a lower price, Brazil ...

Abbott Offers Aluvia to Thailand in Return for Compulsory Licensing Halt

... including Aluvia. In February Abbott offered a price cut to $167 a month for Kaletra, the soft-gel caps... in April Abbott announced that it was cutting the price of Kaletra and Aluvia when registered to $1000 a year in 40 lower middle-income countries following ...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...sion. It’s my job to figure out what a physician's price is." The whopping sales recorded by the Canadian pharmaceutical industry which generated $17.8-billion last year is ample evidence to the relationship between doctors and medical representatives. A pharmaceutical watchdog in Canada is keen on regul...

U.K. Backs Program To Improve Drug Access in Developing Countries

...g to the Times. "We want better information on the price of drugs, their availability and quality," Benn said, adding, "We know that there are big mark-ups on drugs, drugs are not always available, distribution is not working and the quality is often not effective." The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a...

Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

...ountry like Haiti." This new device could have a price edge over the $10,000 colposcope. Jeffrey Wilkinson of Urogynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, was quoted as saying: "...I think it is a great idea. I have personally seen the value of colposcopes in resource-poor settings in India, Afri...

India -Penny Wise and Pound Foolish on Health Matters

... up its socks on health issues, lest it pay a huge price of being labeled- ‘The global leader of chronic diseases’. If the present trend continues//, 66% of deaths by 2020 will be due to chronic diseases. A study conducted by Assocham and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) on 'Working towards Wellness: An I...

Thailand Directs Pharma Companies to Declare Production Cost of Drugs

... from international organizations to negotiate the price of Aluvia to ensure it will be affordable for peop... monthly, but generic drug makers could reduce the price to less than 2,000 baht, or $62, monthly to compete with the price of Kaletra offered by Abbott, acc...

Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly

...y-saving ones. This is due to the lower purchase price of incandescent lamps despite the energy savings of up to 80 percent with the alternatives. "There are countries where the question is about affordability," Goetzeler said. Under a clean development mechanism programme, these countries will receive...

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