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Don’t Kill Your Skin With Bleachers, Warns Doctor

...0 Jamaican dollars will be charged for the illegal sale of banned skin lighteners under the country's Food and Drug Act. Doctors list the side effects of bleaching creams as skin cancer, thinning of the skin, irreversible stretch marks, easy bruising and tearing of the skin, rashes, enlarged blood vesse...

Synova Acquires Rights to Today Sponge Contraceptive, Plans Advertising Campaign

...fections. The sponge was introduced in 1983, but sale of the product was discontinued in 1995 because its manufacturer, Whitehall-Robbins -- now known as Wyeth -- did not want to invest in the equipment upgrades necessary to maintain FDA approval. Allendale in 2000 purchased the manufacturing rights to ...

Better to Chicken Out of This

...Wednesday. Officials plan to lift the ban on the sale and movement of poultry and eggs if the green signal is sounded from inspection agencies. Scientists fear the spreading of the avian flu could result in a lethal pandemic should the avian flu virus mutate with that of the human flu virus. So far ...

Magic Potion Creator Held

... way of fines and costs. The Indian had put up for sale a magic cream supposed// to cure skin diseases. The cream when seized and examined was found to contain Clobetasol Propionate, a prescription steroid drug, used to treat severe cases of childhood eczema. Official sources in the Medicines and Healt...

Rise from Those Ashes

... years. This comes after 100 years of permitting sale of cigarettes to those over 16 years of age. Flint plans to support her announcement with research showing that hundreds of teenagers who start smoking early end up as addicts and go on to develop or even die from smoking related ailments. Every...

Kidney Racket Not Ruled Out in Children's Killings

... who had been arrested in connection with an organ sale racket a few months ago. Police in Noida found 16 human skulls and the skeletal remains of children as well as torn bits of clothing from a drain behind a house in Noida's Sector 31 that belongs to a businessman from Punjab, Sardar Mohinder Singh ...

Clones On the Menu

...of US is getting ready to pass a bill allowing the sale of cloned animal products. “We based our decision on looking at the health of the animal,” says Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. “If this technology were going to introduce any hazards into the food supply, we ...

Indian Health Ministry To Ban Junk Food, Colas In Schools

...r Anbumani Ramadoss has decided to launch a ban on sale of Colas and junk food in schools.// If this happ...d for children’s health. Hence, we want to ban the sale of such products within the school premises,” is in talk with Union Human Resource Development Minis...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

... company ALK-Albello has been granted approval for sale in 27 countries including UK. Costs of treatment though run high. Hundreds of thousands of pounds an year will be incurred by the national health services when the pill is released for prescription. Trials conducted in hundreds of miserable hay ...

Indian Men Need Smaller Condoms

... the country,” he added. "Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a lack of awareness that different sizes are available. There is anxiety talking about the issue. And normally one feels shy to go to a chemist's shop and ask for a smaller size condom." "One of the reasons for the failure of...

Dr. Reddy's To Invest $100 Mn In Andhra

... only Rs.100,' Reddy said. DRL recorded a mammoth sale of $602 billion in 2005 and it's the first drug company of Asia excluding Japan to list in the New York Stock Exchange in 2001. The 22-year-old company had started funding research in 1993 with an investment of Rs. 60 million. 'Polypill, a product o...

Free Plan B Faces Controversy

...mplantation. This summer the FDA sanctioned the sale of Plan B across the counter as a contraceptive measure for women who are 18 or older. This has raised an uproar from many quarters. Since Plan B ECP contains a very high percentage of hormones, its safety has been questioned. It is to be taken, only...

Gynaecological Society Has Sought a Ban on Illegal Sale of Sperms

...ological society has demanded a ban on the illegal sale of sperms allegedly being carried out by infertili...s of India (FOGSI) has said the large-scale direct sale of donor sperms, without tests and checks by sperm banks, was a serious matter and required urgent g...

Hong Kong to Tighten Food Safety Laws

...ce wholesalers and retailers to withdraw food from sale if there are concerns, the territory's minister for health York Chow announced. The move comes after scares over fish and eggs imported into Hong Kong from China in recent weeks which have turned out to be contaminated with potentially cancer-causi...

Using Heart Stents Tends to Form More Clots

...y having the major share of revenue generated from sale of stents. Medtronic Inc. and, Abbott Laboratories are also waiting to enter the U.S market by the year 2007-2008. MST...

American Red Cross Face Fines After Blood Safety Lapses

... Red Cross will use the revenue generated from the sale of blood products to pay up the fine. More than 40 per cent of the U.S’ demand for blood products for medical emergencies is met by the Red Cross MST...

SARS Transmitted By Civet Cat – Say Scientists In Chin

... This evidence resulted in a permanent ban on the sale and consumption of civet cats by Guangdong authori...announced a citywide campaign to fight the illegal sale of wild animals, particularly civet cats - the paper said. Wang Ming, an official from the Guangzhou...

Carcinogens in Fish Worries Chinese Watchdogs

The Chinese food safety officials have banned the sale of turbot after they detected high levels of carcinogenic agents in fish //at several of Beijing’s fish markets, reports the Chinese media. The turbot fish was introduced by Cao Jilin from Europe in 1992. Due to low resistance to diseases, the fish...

Indian company charged with fraud in supply of Aids test kit

...o look into the mayhem that has been caused by the sale of postdated obsolete blood test kits used to test donor blood before blood transfusion to needy reciepients . The proprietors of the company are currently under police custody. Britain's Royal Society of Medicine had recently reported in an arti...

Fake Condoms Come to Light

... the fakes. The number of these fakes that were on sale in UK was also unknownThese counterfeits came to light only after three customers complained to Durex. When tests were conducted at the company's laboratories it was confirmed that these were fakes. Replica boxes with the code 20604354 were printed...

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