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Law ensuring safety and quality of Herbal drugs

...ch the consumers using herbal products for medical remedies are informed of the composition of the drugs, toxicity levels and the safety of these drugs by the manufacturers. // The new directive will provide consumers with labelled information about the quality and safety of the herbal drug. The new directi...

Smart drugs for alcohol hangovers not effective

...adache, nausea, vomiting and thirst. Complementary remedies such as sugar, succinnic acid, fumaric acid, L-glutamine, herbs, charcoal, calcium carbonate, vitamins and minerals also found to be effective. The best remedy to prevent hangovers is to prevent hangover is to avoid drinking or to drink in moderately...

Home Remedies More Used By Blacks And Native Americans

...ine have found out that an inclination to use home remedies for treatment of common diseases are based more on.../ Blacks and Native Americans tend to opt for home remedies when compared to whites. Surprisingly, the inclination is found to be independent of the economic ...

The weight loss reality check – Do Fad diets and short-cut methods actually work

...ealthy blend of diet and exercise apart from other remedies to reduce water retention. Beware of those centers that adopt thermal blankets to get you to sweat it out – more water loss than weight loss!2.People gain weight as they age mainly because of sedentary lifestyles in the youth as against active life d...

Nature Cures The Best, Say WIC Clinic Clients

.... Opportunities to research the efficacy of herbal remedies should be created, so that people can make an informed choice of treatment. The study is published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association....

Inclination of North Carolina’s Elderly Population towards Home Remedie

...g used in general. The categories are: Food home remedies such as honey, lemon and garlic and about 52% of them used it regularly. Other home remedies such as tobacco, Epsom salts, and salves. It was used by 57%.Under the category of vitamins, multivi...

Using Herbal Products Heightens Substance Abuse Risk in Teens

...th care providers to ask if teens are using herbal remedies and from there probe deeper for possible drug use,...rm better at sports or school." Included as herbal remedies were products like dietary supplements or even creatinine. "This was a cross-sectional study that ex...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

...ing them bad food and make more money selling them remedies for what has happened to them. GRAIN also claims to have found that Donald Rumsfeld is a major stockholder in Gilead Sciences, which licenses Tamiflu. They claim that even if Tamiflu is of any use to avian flu sufferers or not, it is of great profita...

Pakistan’s Public Health System On Downward Tren

...the vernacular Urdu language press, offering cheap remedies for hepatitis B and C, cancer and kidney ailments. The government has already drafted a law to discourage and punish quacks but has not succeeded yet to put it before the legislature. The association's report said that the life expectancy in Paki...

Many Nonprescription Cough Medicines Proves Ineffective

... active ingredients present in the so-called cough remedies may be ineffective. // It is stated that in US alone people spend around $3.5 billion a year to these nonprescription cough medicines. There are many nonprescription cough medicines, but most contain the same types of active ingredients in a limited...

Secret Herb Could Tackle Hot Flushes And Night Sweats In Breast Cancer Patients

... cut out tea, coffee and nicotine, try alternative remedies or a certain type of anti-depressant. Professor Molassiotis said: 'It is hoped that the herbal remedy will be simpler and cheaper to take, as well as more effective, thus improving the lives of women who need all their energy to fight the disease.'...

Adding more fiber in the diet can offset hemorrhoids.

...t 10 minutes. Ointments and other over-the-counter remedies may also help. Source: Foodconsumer.org...

Indian And Chinese Doctors Join Together To Prove The Efficacy Of Herbal Drugs

... by observing patients who have switched to herbal remedies with allopathic medicines having not provided any relief. --Edited IANS...

To Ape or Not To Ape? Bridging Missing Links in Medical Research

...mate experiments are need of the hour to arrive at remedies for human diseases. Scientists opine that specific primate research has contributed in great measure towards protecting human health. Having said that, it is also evident that after decades of experiments on primates, scientists have not made path ...

Health Department orders closure of the Mars candy factory

...oints for rodents. Despite necessitating immediate remedies by the officials, the company M&M Mars Inc. candy factory, had done precious little to correct the irregularities. Officials at the Chicago Public Health Department have taken the extreme measure of ordering a shut down of the factory. Dr. Terry M...

Gabapentin Reduced Menopausal Symptoms as Estrogen – Study Find

...ing other ways to ease symptoms. So-called natural remedies such as soy, herbal products or acupuncture have not proven safe or effective at this point. The latest Rochester study is the first to compare gabapentin and estrogen head-to-head against a placebo. Although it showed a substantial placebo effect ...

Travellers Cautioned Over The Alternate Remedies For Malaria

...pical places are being warned to avoid homeopathic remedies that are claiming to prevent malaria, after severa...t in many cases the patients had taken homeopathic remedies instead of licensed medicines. Some of the travellers have claimed that they were told that the home...

Dr Ozone's Past Catches up with Him

...hout any medical validity. His unorthodox health remedies have come under investigation following the deaths of cancer sufferers in Australia and Thailand. He was arrested in the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand this week on charges of fraud and unlicensed practice of medicine without a licence. Sartori how...

Imported Herbal Remedies from Asia Contain Fatal Drugs

...ter routine investigations Medsafe identified five remedies that contained drugs which could be fatal to some individuals. Some contained sildenafil, the erectile dysfunction drug which could also interfere with some heart medications. Medicines which are used to treat obese patients contained sibutramine w...

US Courts Say No To 'Light' Cigarettes

...appointed that the court did not impose all of the remedies sought by the government,' it said in a statement. The lawsuit had been running for six years, first filed by the Clinton administration in 1999 in an effort to reclaim the billions of dollars expended every year on smoking-related illnesses. Sou...

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