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Web Page to Warn Against Online Purchase of Isotretinoin

...n and suicidal thoughts. About 165,000 people have registered with iPledge, which FDA administers jointly with companies that sell the drug. The Web page was launched as FDA officials' felt that some are purchasing the drug on line to avoid involvement in iPledge. The Web page has links to other info about ...

‘Nursing’ a Dream in Foreign Lans

...tates. In the 1990 alone, nearly 8.5% of all newly registered nurses in the United States were foreign trained. .... It was also seen that 21% of the foreign trained registered nurses hailed from the poorer nations like Africa. The report, published in the American Journal of ...

South Asians Wait for Matching Bone Marrow Donors

Los Angeles: The percentage of South Asians registered in the US National Marrow Donor Registry// is so small that patients from the region perforce join a long queue for matching donors. Urmi and Girish are two of those waiting for a matching bone marrow transplant here. Urmi, 5, has been diagnosed ...

Public Interest Litigation Filed Favoring Mineworkers Against Silicosis

... more than 12,000 mines and around 20,000 quarries registered in Rajasthan. In addition, there are thousands of unofficial mines. According to the National Commission of Labour, there are approximately 2 million mineworkers in the state. Silicosis is an incurable lung disease caused by inhalation of dust co...

Tuberculosis Drug Resistance 'alarming' in India

...anization (WHO), John said: "Nearly 196,000 people registered themselves for re-treatment for TB in 2004 of which 39,000 showed drug resistance. "Only 50 percent of those who availed of re-treatment were completely cured and 6.9 percent died. It is certainly alarming that close to 43 percent patients need ext...

Jogi Hospitalized With Chest Pain After Arrest

...lice station in this capital. His son Satish Jaggi registered a police complaint an hour after the shootout. Satish named Ajit Jogi, then the chief minister, and his son Amit as prime accused. After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to power, the state government handed over the case to the Cen...

Tamilnadu to Extend Nutritional Supplement Support for HIV Patients

...irst of its kind in the entire country. Patients registered with all the 15 Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) in Tamilnadu would be covered by the programme. Overall 13,000 persons living HIV/AIDS are expected to benefit as a result of the programme. The minister hoped that the nutritional support to be ext...

Northwest China Region Reports Six New Cases of HIV Daily

...t HIV case in the region only 12 years ago, it has registered the steepest annual rise in HIV infections in the country and it is mainly transmitted through illegal drug users sharing contaminated needles, officials stated. The government is planning to promote the use of condoms in all hotels and entertainm...

Poison Control Training and Research Centre at Chennai

...eadquarters. He also revealed that the state had registered about 20,000 cases of snake or insect bites last year and that during the same period 25,000 persons had committed suicide by consuming pesticide. Ian D Simpson, an official of the World Health Organisation, who also took part in the Saturday’s com...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Trustees Support Smoking Ban In Public Spaces

...ees - including a medical staff of 4,797 and 4,613 registered nurses - is a collaboration of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Health System that unites the faculty physicians and scientists of the School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of The Johns Hopki...

Bird Flu Outbreak in Chonan, Central South Korea

...0 people were killed worldwide. Most human cases registered so far have been traced to direct contact with infected birds. Scientists dread the virus could mutate into a human virus that could transmit easily among humans causing a dreadful pandemic. PRI...

Patient Sets Medical Counsellor on Fire

...tendent Manohar Varma told IANS. The police have registered a case under Section 307 of the IPC. Source-IANS...

Certain Drug Treatment Associated With Orofacial Clefts

...acial Journal. The study’s participants had been registered with the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance of Congenital Abnormalities between 1980 and 1996. The study reviewed 1,374 cases of isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P), 601 cases with posterior cleft plate (PCP), 38,151 cases without...

Ashley Judd to Visit Jaipur for HIV Cause

...1 million HIV/AIDS patients. PSI/India is an NGO registered in 1980 with a mandate to assist the government in the fields of reproductive health, HIV prevention, and maternal and child health. It harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of the low-income and vulnerable popul...

Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Combine to Slow Growth of Prostate Cancer

... received a combination of green tea and celecoxib registered a greater decrease in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels compared to that in celecoxib alone or green tea alone treated animals. PSA is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate and is used as a marker for detection and progression of prost...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

...urgery cancelled because of it." The vaccine was registered for use in Australia last year, and in October the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recommended it be included in a national immunisation program, giving it the green light for the Government to approve. Professor Elizabeth Elliott, a ped...

Be Transformed and Don’t Pay Interes

...t register with the General Medical Council and is registered with the Healthcare Commission. Says Douglas McGeorge, consultant-plastic surgeon and president-of BAAPS: "When considering aesthetic surgery, price should not rule. While the fees clearly need to be considered, it should never be the primary facto...

Culturally Specific Diabetes Management Helps Low-Income Patients

... Services Research. The clinical team included a registered nurse/certified diabetes educator and a medical assistant and a registered dietitian who were bilingual and bicultural. Patients underwent an initial 50-minute visit with a nu...

Russia’s Avian Flu Outbreak Linked to Single Marke

...ital. The country's first outbreak this year was registered last month in the Krasnodar territory, an agricultural region near the Black Sea. The H5N1 strain has killed at least 167 people worldwide since it began ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Thoug...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

... on clinical data from the company that originally registered the drug to approve the marketing of the generic, and so these generic manufacturers must carry out their own safety and efficacy studies. Generic manufacturers are thus obliged to repeat clinical and preclinical trials—something that takes time an...

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