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Tasmanian Car Smoking Ban Sets Good Example For Other Governments

...nyone under 18 years of age and to not allow the// sale of fruit-flavoured cigarettes in the State. Dr Haikerwal said both decisions set a good example to the other States and Territories. “The car smoking ban is sensible and responsible,” Dr Haikerwal said. “It removes another health hazard from ou...

FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk

... the pasteurization of milk and restriction of the sale of products containing raw milk. Because even pasteurized milk contains low levels of nonpathogenic bacteria that can cause food to spoil, it is important to keep pasteurized milk refrigerated. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SR...

Too Much of Salt in Bread..

...e UK diet. If the salt content of all the bread on sale in the UK was that of the lowest levels found in this survey, we could cut the average population daily intake by around 1g. "Research has shown that a population cut of 1g of salt per day would equate to 7,000 lives saved each year from strokes an...

Pichkaris Not So Popular in Jharkhand

...ning good money selling pichkaris during Holi. The sale has declined by 20 per cent now," said Vikas Kumar...with other forms such as guns or airplanes but the sale was good. In the last few years its been steadily going down." The price of sprayers varies from R...

Access to Pornography Among Teenagers on the Rise

...to talk with their teens, and that laws around the sale of porn to minors are enforced, Thompson said. Sorce-Eurekalert SRM...

AMA Calls For Ban On Duty-Free Cigarettes

..., said today the AMA is seeking a total ban on the sale of duty-free cigarettes// in Australia. “The lo...t the Australian Government continues to allow the sale of duty-free cigarettes, to travelling citizens and visitors alike,” Dr Haikerwal said. “The heal...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

... to have said in January that it was considering a sale of its generic drugs business to help pay for its ...mber of Serono, the Swiss biotechnology group. A sale of the Merck Generics unit, which is believed to be worth between Euro 3 billion and Euro 4 billion,...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

... TB were stolen from health units, and ended up on sale in informal markets. "As from now our attitude must change", he stressed, "so that the Tuberculosis Control Programme can advance and we can have better results". Garrido welcomed the cooperation from foreign partners in the fight against TB - bu...

Cyberkinetics Requests FDA to Sell Nerve Growth Stimulation System

...igational device. It is not currently approved for sale and is available only through participation in a clinical study. Cyberkinetics has filed an application for Humanitarian Use Device status from the FDA. If the application is successful, Cyberkinetics could market the device commercially in late 20...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

...could be unwittingly opening the door to barter or sale of eggs, including women in Britain as well as abroad, even though it is saying that women doing this would do so for purely altruistic reasons,' said Donna Dickenson, emeritus professor of medical ethics and humanities at the University of London an...

Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Depression Drug

... based in Jacksonville, Florida, is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system. Ranbaxy's continued focus on R&D has resulted in several approvals in developed markets and significant progress in New Drug Discovery Research. The company'...

Madhya Pradesh Gets Tough on Sex Determination Tests

... foetus' sex. "It further prohibits sex selection, sale of ultrasound machines to unregistered units and any kind of advertising for sex determination techniques," said Sunil Jain, counsel for NGOs Praytan and Dharti Gram Uthan that recently petitioned against the prevalence of female foeticide in the sta...

U S Government Allows Non-prescription Diet Pill

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of a diet drug which can be sold without a prescription. This weight loss pill //is called Alli, which was previously sold as a prescription drug by the name Xenical since 1999 in U.S. On a comparative note Alli will be sold in 60 mg capsules while...

Eli Lilly Releases Digital Insulin Pen

...Pen Memoir, uses insulin cartridges. It will go on sale next week and retail for about $45. 'It allows the user to dial the amount of insulin they need to take. Most people take insulin three or four times a day, depending on when they eat,' said Doug Boyd, who led the Battelle development team. The H...

Ban on Non-iodised Salt Challenged

...government notification banning the production,// sale and use of non-iodised salt for human consumption. A three-Judge Bench comprising Justice B.N. Agrawal, Justice P.P. Naolekar and Justice R.V. Raveendran admitted the petition filed by Academy of Nutrition Improvement and asked the government to fi...

Advice To Canada On Right Kind Of Food

...f diet prescribed by the Food Guide may affect the sale of beef there. According to food journalist Michael Pollan the need of the hour is the knowledge about the foods that need to be knocked off from our diet rather than the ones that need addition. He also feels that due to the poor soil quality, to...

Take Third Generation Oral Contraceptives Off the Shelves-consumer Group Insists

...ills, was known to the FDA, yet it has allowed the sale of these drugs for the last 12 years. "While the use of any type of combined oral contraceptive holds an increased risk of venous thrombosis (blood clots), third-generation birth-control pills double that risk without preventing pregnancy any more ...

Suicide Rates in Children Soar

...s feel that this could be linked to the plummeting sale of// antidepressants. This data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also indicated that youth in their late teens resorted to suicides more. A few years back, US Food and Drug Administration had issued a black box warning on t...

The Psyche Behind Drug Commercials

...life of common man. They are intended to boost the sale of any product from a small toy to a big automobile. When it comes to promoting// drugs through commercials, the campaigns are so credible that the consumers go for it even if they don’t need them. This was revealed in a survey conducted by a group...

Oral Flu Vaccine On The Horizon In Russia

... vaccine, MedImmune's FluMist, which is already on sale in the USA. The adjuvant used in the vaccine, called Korauban, is an immunostimulant gamma interferon inductor that is closely related to ordinary cellulose. The initial clinical candidate form will include antigens from three inactivated viruses ...

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