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Drugs to Tackle Anemia may Be Playing Dracula

...d the new "black box' warning. The ‘black box’ warning cautions that the drugs should be used at the lowest dose necessary to avoid the need for a blood transfusion. They should not be used to fully reverse anemia. The FDA’s public health advisory yesterday could now mean that physicians are likely to ...

Club and Bar Owners may Sell Laughing Gas at Their Own Risk

...at night clubs has prompted authorities to issue a warning to organizers and nightclub// owners to refrain from such acts, lest they risk facing serious charges or even prosecution. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and the Local Authorities Co-coordinators of Regulatory Services have...

FDA Warns Migraine Medicine Makers

...al. The Food and Drug Administration said the 20 warning letters were part of an effort to halt the marketing of unapproved and potentially dangerous drugs. The goal is to get the unapproved drugs off the market, agency officials said. The manufacturers could seek agency approval for the products. The pr...

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...osis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. The warning follows a study, which identified the risk of the spreading of virus among sportspeople through contaminated sweat. Researchers studied the blood samples from 70 Olympic wrestlers of ages between 18 and 30 and tested them for hepatitis B virus. Tra...

Busting the Exam Blues

...dient for success. It is inbuilt into our body's warning system, as the adrenalin cruising through us keeps us vigilant, and alerts us to threatening situations. However it is important to maintain stress at optimum levels to maximize our performance. Controlling panic and maintaining a 'level' head w...

Smoking is Injurious to Health, Says Saif

...thed, this hospital experience served up a healthy warning for me. I need to correct a few things in my life, mainly the smoking. "There I was, with genuinely ill people, people who were suffering from cancer and chronic heart ailments. It just made me so conscious of my own life and my responsibilities." ...

Men Not as Tough as They Seem

...xpect a lot from their bodies, but do not heed its warning signals. Many only consult a doctor when it's too late and could spare themselves a lot of agony with preventative check-ups. German men have a life expectancy of around 76 years, compared to 81 years for German women. Between ages 30 and 64, men d...

Pepsi to Put Caffeine Content on Labels

...nly four of the 10 were labelled with some sort of warning to consumers. "In certain people, consumption of caffeine causes serious health effects, such as anxiety, palpitations, irritability, difficulty sleeping and stomach complaints," he said, urging for the clear labelling of the substance on all prod...

Women’s Health Takes the Spotlight in Ma

...e, women and men often have different symptoms and warning signs prior to heart attacks. Women are disproportiaetly affected by osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, and mental health conditions, just to name a few conditions. The Society for Women's Health Research has educational materials available for bo...

Mathematical Model Predicts Cholera Outbreaks

...ing a model developed during that work as an early warning system. "The question we asked was whether, using data from 1966 to 2000, we could have predicted cholera outbreaks over the past five years," said Pascual, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "We also wanted to know whethe...

Copy-cats Not Approved

... and Branding, says that the company has taken the warning in a positive sense and that they are “finding a way to switch over.” Lt Col Kishen Gulati, the honorary secretary of the Delhi branch of the IRCS and the man behind the changes at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and Moolchand flyovers,...

Consumers Warned of Using Cat Food Due to Salmonella Contamination

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to purchase, or use, Wild Kitty Cat ...d or pets. The specific products covered by this warning are Wild Kitty Raw All Natural, Frozen Cat Food – Chicken with Clam Recipe, Net Wt. 3.5 oz (100g) an...

Vaccine in the Dock- Suspicions of Intussusception

... and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with a warning to consumers and health care professionals who have might// have administered doses of the vaccine Rota Teq, to infants. There is reportedly a risk of intussusception. The vaccine is given to infants between 2 to 6 months of age, in three doses as ...

Beauticians and Barbers can Do More Than Their Services

... researchers gave lessons on stroke prevention and warning signs to beauticians in black-run beauty shops in ...art-healthy cookbooks, wallet cards listing stroke warning signs, and other stroke-related materials. At the start of the study, 40.7 percent of the women su...

‘Smart House’ Developed to Monitor People With Dementa

... smart technology to monitor activity and sounds a warning when it thinks there may be a problem. The breakthrough by experts at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering could mean elderly people with fading memory can now stay in their own homes for longer, rather than being forced to go into care homes...

Statutory Warnings on Cigarette Packs- Make It Bigger and Brighter, Say Researchers

...s was dismally low at 32 percent. Here there was a warning from the U.S surgeon-general given as a small te...e other countries get even more graphic with their warning labels, according to the report. For instance, a Thai label includes a picture of a man smoking, wit...

Suicide Rates in Children Soar

...ood and Drug Administration had issued a black box warning on the antidepressants that these drugs could incite a suicidal behavior. The decline in availability of antidepressants could have escalated the rate of suicides in these children. According to Dr John March, a psychiatry professor from Duke Unive...

Women - More Likely to Die of Genital Nonmelanoma

...n mortality rates from genital NMSCs, and heed the warning signs of the disease – including new growths or sores that don’t heal – to detect it early.” When the death rates from non-genital NMSCs were examined, Dr. Weinstock found that men were twice as likely as women to die from these typically sun-induc...

New HIV Threat Found in King County

...till, Wood said the cases should serve as an early warning because "they show there is some ongoing transmiss...ns to distribute fliers in gay bars and bathhouses warning of the new strain. And Wood said physicians are being asked to test all newly diagnosed HIV patients...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

...s and physicians must be alert to -- and act on -- warning signs of a heart condition. Although all deaths in... those with the lethal mutations had experienced a warning sign prior to death. Warning signs of possible mutation-linked heart abnormality include: ? sud...

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