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Amphetamine Abuse Worst In Asia

...bert Ali said. "When China can manufacture ecstasy tablets for under eight cents and they're producing in quantities way beyond demand ... it means the drugs are moving and they're moving quite rapidly through the region." RAS...

Physician Communication Spotty When Prescribing Medications

...ed only 55 percent of patients as to the number of tablets they should take; and noted frequency or timing of doses in just 58 percent of the cases. “This study demonstrates spotty physician counseling about new medication prescription,” the researchers wrote. “Although physicians educated patients more ab...

Doctors to give complete information on prescriptions to patients

...iscussed in only 1/3rd of the cases, the number of tablets to be taken was told in 55% of the cases and the frequency or timing of the dos in 58%. “Healthcare providers seemed to make more of an effort to convey information about analgesic and psychiatric medication, but compared to how doctors should do,...

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs could cause gastrointestinal complications.

...prove their use.' An estimated 50 billion aspirin tablets are consumed worldwide and approximately 60 million prescriptions are written for NSAIDs each year in the U.S., predominantly for older patients. These drugs are effective in acute and chronic treatment of painful and inflammatory musculoskeletal con...

Vitamin D May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk by Nearly Half

Consumption of Vitamin D tablets was found to cut the risk of pancreatic cancer nearly in half, according to a study led// by researchers at Northwestern and Harvard universities. The findings point to Vitamin D’s potential to prevent the disease, and is one of the first known stud...

New drug assists patients' suffering premature ejaculation

...e anywhere from 6 and more times a month, with the tablets to be taken one to three hours before beginning of intercourse. A logbook was to be maintained with the time of ejaculation recorded. The team said 'The Drug improved patients’ perception of control over ejaculation, satisfaction with sexual inter...

Women With Breast Cancer Miss Taking Medications

...ing with side effects and inability to swallow the tablets were given as main reasons for quitting the pills. Another reason cited was that the drugs reminded them of their cancer, according to the study due to appear in the European Journal of Cancer. "The findings are concerning because not taking a full...

Viread To Retail In India For $1

... both the API (active particle ingredient) and the tablets in perpetuity. While the rights to sell API will...imited to other pharmaceutical companies in India, tablets can be distributed in India, Thailand, Africa and 43 other countries. This offers the Indian licen...

Online Drugs Could Prove Hazardous To health Warn Doctors in UK

...ns found that they could obtain almost around 1000 tablets of prednisolone, which was the steroid that the woman had taken. Explaining that many drugs available were fakes and could contain ingredients that would bearing little resemblance to the medicine named on the bottle, the Sunderland team told the L...

UK Recommendations On Painkillers Flaunted

... of paracetamol packs available to a maximum of 32 tablets of 500 mg each in pharmacies and to a maximum of 16 tablets in other outlets, such as petrol stations, supermarkets, and corner shops. The drugs and medical de...

Death of girl Suspected to be due to Bird flu Outbreak

...lly reduced. Dr. Kasiwat said, ''We have only 70 tablets of Tamiflu in our drug stockpile. A suspected bird flu patient needs two tablets a day for five consecutive days. If we run out we still could get more supply within an hour from ne...

Painless Control Of Blood Sugar Levels When Detected Early

...earch, more than 80 patients have switched over to tablets from insulin injections. He specified that this ...rol their blood sugar levels with the sulfonylurea tablets alone. Sulfonylurea drug is generally used to enhance insulin production in type II diabetes that oc...

Aurobindo Gets USFDA Approval for A 3-Drug Combination Pack

... product contains Lamivudine 150mg+2idovudine300mg tablets co-packaged with Abacavir 300mg Tablets, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. This combination pack enhances convenience, is cost-effective and reduces the threat of resistance due to missed doses. This is the first new drug generic appr...

Women More Persistent with Monthly Osteoporosis Treatment

...ersistence rate for patients on weekly alendronate tablets was 39 per cent. "Getting patients to continue taking prescribed medication is a major problem for healthcare professionals" says lead author Dr Alun Cooper, a family doctor from the Bridge Medical Centre in Crawley, UK. "The World Health Organ...

Lupin Gets USFDA Approval for Meloxicam

...reviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Meloxicam tablets used in the treatment of osteoarthritis and rheuma...toid arthritis. // The approval is for Meloxicam tablets of strengths of 7.5 mg and 15 mg , the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. "The approval of...

Ranbaxy Signs Licensing, Supply Agreement for Canadian Market

...I) for a generic version of Risperidone compressed tablets in the Canadian market. // The agreement was signed between Ranbaxy's wholly owned subsidiary, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc (RPCI) and Janssen-Ortho Inc (JOI), the company said in a statement here. "This agreement will provide Ranbaxy with a...

Azathioprine 50mg Pills Recalled By FDA And Roxane Labs

...as discovered that a single bottle of Azathioprine tablets from lot 558470A contained Methotrexate tablets USP 2.5 mg. While we believe this issue may be limited to this single bottle, which was not dispense...

Ranbaxy Launches Clarithromycin, Terbinafine Tablets in Japan

...tic 'Clarithromycin' and anti-fungal 'Terbinafine' tablets in the Japanese market. Clarithromycin has been...first co-developed product Vogseal O.2mg and 0.3mg tablets for the treatment of diabetes. Last year, Ranbaxy had also increased its equity stake in Nihon Phar...

Aurobindo Gets USFDA Approval for Didanosine Chewable Tablets

...y USFDA for its anti-HIV drug, Didanosine chewable tablets of 100mg, 150mg and 200mg strengths. // This is the first generic version approval for Didanosine chewable in the world given by USFDA, Aurobindo Pharma informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The aforesaid product would now be available for purchase ...

Britons don't Need Malaria Pills Before Visiting India

Britons no longer need to take malaria tablets before travelling to India, according to a recommendation by TropMedEurop, an electronic network of infectious disease specialists//. The organisation's research analysed all the malaria cases imported into eight European countries from India, Paki...

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