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Delayed Drug In New Zealand Markets

...in, glargine, from July 1. It is also known by its trade name, Lantus. Wayne McNee, Pharmac chief executive, said the drug, which was priced at $5 million, reduces the risk of hypo glycaemia which could lead to muscle weakness, confusion and sweating, and in the worst cases, to coma. Community liaiso...

Nurses Face Unemployment

...HS continuing its policy of short-term solutions a trade union has launched a scathing attack on the NHS// when it was revealed that fewer than one in five graduating student nurses would be employed. In the 1990s as hospitals were forced to recruit overseas to meet workforce targets because of shortage ...

Gabapentin Reduced Menopausal Symptoms as Estrogen – Study Find

...experience hot flashes. Gabapentin (sold under the trade name Neurontin) was approved by the FDA in 1994 to treat epileptic seizures but has been used off-label for years to treat headaches, shingles pain and other ailments. Scientists hypothesize that gabapentin may reduce hot flashes by regulating the fl...

Global Health Issues To Take Priority In The Current G8 Summit In Russia

... to provide antiretroviral drugs to Africa, expand trade and increase aid....

HIV/AIDS Policy Needed at Workplace: Experts

...rs said at a workshop today. Respresentatives of trade unions, human rights organisations, universities, businesses and various NGOs who participated in a workshop on 'HIV/AIDS -- A Workplace Issue: Areas of Intervention' here, outlined the steps needed to frame effective HIV/AIDS policies in offices. T...

'Smoking Kills' Warning Soon on Tobacco Products

...ect from February one next year so as to allow the trade and industry to make the necessary changes in their trade practices. Any person who produces or manufactures cigarettes or tobacco products without the speci...

Study Finds ER Not Overburdened By Uninsured & Immigrants

...ington think tank, which is to be published in the trade journal Health Affairs, had conducted extensive studies at Miami-Dade and 59 other regions, concentrating in a greater detail on 13 of them. The study seemingly indicated that at least in this one category Miami-Dade's healthcare costs are not among ...

Higher-Dose Copper IUDs Provide Better Pregnancy Protection

... in the United States. The T380A, sold under the trade name ParaGard, is a T-shaped device that contains 380 square millimeters of copper, the highest dose of all IUDs included in this analysis. In direct comparisons, it performed as well as or better than both lower-dose T-shaped IUDs and horseshoe-shap...

China Bans Illegal Stem Cell Collection, Transplantation

...tem cells comes after China banned alleged rampant trade in human organs early this month. Source:PTI News...

Need for Newer AIDS Drugs In China

...t breaking international patent laws and suffering trade repercussions. “The drugs no longer work as effectively for them,” said Zhang. Zhang said that once the second-line drugs become available the patients will have more choices for treatment and also hoped the death rate will be reduced from the cur...

India Urged to Take Stringent Measures to Combat AIDS

...ater regional cooperation is the cross-border drug trade and sexual networks between the highest prevalence districts in northeastern India, parts of Bangladesh, and Myanmar, which underscores the role of migration, and clearly calls for countries to work together more closely to prevent HIV from becoming ...

Cancer Stem Cells Could Hold Key to Brain Tumor Therapy

...Adding an antibody (bevacizumab, also known by the trade name Avastin) that blocks VEGF activity blocked new blood vessel formation and prevented tumor growth. The researchers suggest that the stem cell-like glioma cells, because of their support of angiogenesis, could hold an important target to suppressi...

"Tarakeswar Alu"- buy potatoes online !!

...is scope for a turnover of Rs.45 billion in potato trade annually. As the Kufri Jyoti variety is produced in abundance, it was chosen for online sale.Another popular variety - Chandramukhi - has not found place online because of inadequate production. Satellite technology would enable the online facili...

‘Bird flu-free’ India resumes egg expors

According to trade sources, egg exports have been restarted in India after declaring itself ‘Bird flu-free’. India dispatched its first egg shipment to Muscat.// Due to the bird flu outbreak in Maharashtra last February, all the countries around the world had stoppe...

Medical Tourism can Fetch Rs.100 bn Annually by 2012

...tional Tourism in Berlin 2007, the leading tourism trade fair," the minister said at a meet organised by th...tional Tourism in Berlin 2007, the leading tourism trade fair," the minister said at a meet organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Healt...

Agricultural Subsidies Responsible For Obesity, Says Expert

...for the obesity epidemic in poor countries. "The trade policies that are currently in play are those which subsidize and distort the market to make fats and sugars cheaper and fruits and vegetables more expensive," James said at the 10th International Obesity Congress in Sydney, Australia. The increased ...

Libyan Lawyers For The HIV-positive Children Seek 15million Dinars As Compensation

...between Libya and the West with the diplomatic and trade ties just about to get pleasant after decades of hostility and ostracism. Washington has for long backed Bulgaria and the European Union in their statement that the medics, in jail in Libya since 1999, are innocent. It was reported that Tripoli has...

Leeds Hospitals to Outsource Medical Transcription Work to India

...o be errors." Dave Prentis, general secretary of trade union Unison alleged serious mistakes had been uncovered at hospitals, which had already tried sending work abroad. Leeds East MP George Mudie said: "I am very worried about the security of sending patient information overseas especially as we know...

Raloxifene Reduces The Risk Of Breast Cancer

...ot approved Raloxifene, which is also known by the trade name Evista. Source-Eurekalert VIK...

Lighten Up! Heavy Backpacks a Weighty Load for Children to Bear

...en don’t consider them cool. It’s a real conscious trade off for schools. If you don’t allow backpacks with wheels, then you have to find some way to lighten up the backpacks. You have to require less text books to be taken home at night.” AOTA is sponsoring a National School Backpack Awareness Day on We...

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