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Merck Cuts Price of Efavirenz for Developing Countries Again

Merck & Co has cut the price of efavirenz 600mg tablets (Stocrin) for developing countries that qualify fo...evalence of 1% or more, the price of Stocrin 600mg tablets is being reduced by 14.5%, to US$0.65 a day ($237.25 a year). In medium HDI countries with an HIV...

Researchers Warn Against the Use Of Garlic To Treat Childhood Ailments

...ohra noted. The data review revealed that garlic tablets did appear to aid upper respiratory tract infections, resulting in a 1.7-fold reduction in morbidity compared with placebo and 2.4-fold reduction versus dibazole, a commercial parasiticide containing medication. Garlic applied briefly to warts also p...

Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Depression Drug

...he Indian company to make Sertraline Hydrochloride tablets in five doses from 25 mg to 200 mg. FDA's Office of Generic Drugs has determined the Ranbaxy formulation to be bioequivalent and have the same therapeutic effect as that of the reference listed drug Zoloft(r) of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., it said...

New Benefits for Folic Acid, Say Experts

.... Pregnant women have been prescribed folic acid tablets for quite a long time now. This has been understood to reduce the risk of babies being born with neural defects, like spina bifida. Yet now a study conducted by Allen Wilcox of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, Nort...

Work-outs, Not So Much of a ‘pain’ With Caffeie

...ter a heavy work-out. Some women received caffeine tablets corresponding to two cups of coffee, while some women got a placebo. This was given 24 and 48 hours after a rigorous session of resistance training, good enough to produce muscle pain. Barely an hour after consuming the pills, the women were asked ...

Lupin Gets Tentative Nod from FDA for Antidepressant Drug

...er. Mumbai based Lupin's Sertraline Hydrochloride tablets will be the AB-rated generic equivalent of Pfizer's Zoloft tablets of 25mg, 50mg and 100mg dosage. "The company intends to launch the generic (drug) on final approv...

Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Hypertension Drug

...in the country. Ranbaxy plans to market Atenolol tablets of 25 mg, 50 mg, and 100 mg dosage manufactured by Mumbai-based Ipca Laboratories in the US from the first quarter of 2007, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Ipca Laboratories has an arrangement with Ranbaxy's wholly owned Florida-based sub...

FDA Proposes Stringent Warnings Labels for Pain Relievers

...he FDA are also considering to limit the number of tablets sold in one package as it is done in the U.K. The recently proposed changes in labeling are based on scientific research and also advice of experts. It is still not clear when the final ruling would become binding. MST...

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

...n, the company will roll out eight billion generic tablets per annum by the end of 2007 and the capacity will be further enhanced to 16 billion tablets per year by early 2009.' 'This drug would reduce the heart attack risk by almost 65 percent as it i...

Folic Acid Usage Could Cut the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

Folic acid tablets could prove a cheap and simple way of cutting heart disease and stroke risk, new evidences suggests. // According to a study by heart experts, folic acid could lower homocysteine concentrations - an amino acid in the blood considered to be a cause o...

Vaccine against grass pollen allergy introduced by ALK-Abell

...informed that optimum benefits are achieved if the tablets are taken about 8 weeks prior to onset of the season when grass pollen becomes rampant. 82% of patients, who underwent treatment for grass pollen allergy using Grazax?, reported a definite sense of well being. Previously they had never received any ...

Holiday Season Could Ring in “Heartburn Season

...ing more acid. So it may help to take some antacid tablets to soak up acid currently being produced and take an H2 receptor blocker to slow the stomach from producing further acid. What is heartburn? Heartburn is caused most often by the reflux or backwash of acid from the stomach up into the esophagus, ...

Cialis- Bringing Respite To ED Effectively

...y. In rare instances, men taking prescription ED tablets (including CIALIS) reported a sudden decrease or l...ine if these events are related directly to the ED tablets or to other factors. If you have a sudden decrease or loss of vision, stop taking any ED tablet and ...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...e benefit than all of the blood pressure treatment tablets that are currently being prescribed. Also blood pressure tracks in children have also been well recorded with higher the blood pressure in childhood causing the higher the blood pressure in adulthood and vice versa. Researchers have established th...

Increased Warning over heart drugs

...e targeting those at the highest level of risk for tablets and for the rest, working hard to prevent them getting to the stage where they need tablets." Dr Mike Napton, of the British Heart Foundation, stated that there was evidence to support medical interventions which reduced the risk of heart disease ...

Crushing Pills can cause Severe Side effects

...0% of the older people. Studies have revealed that tablets are being crushed and given to residents by 80% of...a long period of time, thus reducing the number of tablets taken by the patient. Wright said: "Crushing pills increases the risk of side-effects, of the pati...

Iodine Deficiency: A Global Initiative to Weed Out the Problem

...ly, Lugol, an iodine solution or iodine-containing tablets can be resorted to. While the above mentioned methods do ensure intake of iodine, yet it is fraught with uncertainty, of consuming too little or too much iodine. A sure-shot way to prevent IDD is to ensure that everybody consumes iodized salt. Just...

Irish Medicines Board Extends Paracetamol Recall To All Batches

... is most likely to be mould//. This applies to all tablets dispensed since August 29. As people could not ha...iption , they are being asked to return any unused tablets to their pharmacy and not to consume anymore Paratabs, while pharmacies have to quarantine their un...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

...lthy, balanced diet," she says, dashing hopes that tablets could prove as effective in toning up the skin and firming the figure as an energetic jog around the block. Despite the reservations though, both experts believe oral cosmetics in tablet or capsule form have a role to play in slowing down the proce...

Mystery illness takes 18 lives in Panama

... Alleyne said, “Officials are recalling Lisinopril tablets from pharmacies, hospitals and private clinics across Panama as scientists are testing the drug for toxic agents that may have poisoned 30 people.”“The cause is still not completely confirmed,” Alleyne told a news conference late on Friday. “We decid...

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