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Is Diabetes the Leading Cause of Kidney Failure in India

No one knows the answer to this one as we do not have collective data, however diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the United States, accounting for more than 40 percent of the new cases of end-stage renal disease (ESRD)each year. People with ESRD require regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. Almost 25% of patients suffering from diabetes will get kidney problem...

Misleading anti-malarial drug

Promotional claims about the preventive efficacy of a malaria drug are being questioned by experts, who say the statements are misleading and should be withdrawn. Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline markets the anti-malarial drug Malarone (atovaquone and proguanil) as being 97 per cent effective at preventing the aggressive falciparum strain of malaria, but the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) – pub...

Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

In direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs, statements about drug benefits are often overblown and misleading. "These advertisements rarely quantify the medications' expected benefit; instead, they make an emotional appeal," Dr. Steven Woloshin from Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. // Instead of telling the consumer how likely it is that the medicine i...

The Effects Of Smoking Misleading

A new study shows that smokers who think that they might be taking a step in the right direction by switching to a “ light “ or “ mild “ cigarette // might not be actually as beneficial as thought . Researchers say the reduction in nicotine is minimal, and in the end, the light or mild cigarette could actually increase a person’s risk for problems. Previous studies have shown that low-yield cigar...

Antidepressant Medication Leading To Suicidal Thoughts

The antidepressant Seroxat has been linked to increased suicide attempts among adults and it has been suggested that appropriate warning should be given to doctors and patients regarding this peculiar adverse effect of the drug. // The drug has already been banned for use in children and adolescents due to an increased risk of self-harm. The above study was conducted in a group of 916...

Leading Biotech Companies Are Interested In Acquisition Of Smaller Companies

Leading biotech companies like Pfizer are increasingly interested in acquisition of smaller biotech companies whose products are in the early phase 2 clinical trials.// “Smaller companies are more willing to consider acquisition then they used to be,” notes Roger Longman, Managing Partner at Healthcare business information specialist for Windhover information. The possibilities of going public af...

Historic trial for tuberculosis launched together by leading drug companies

Two leading pharmaceutical companies, The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and Bayer Healthcare have announced a partnership to coordinate the study to uncover the potential of an existing antibiotic, //Moxifloxacin, to shorten the standard 6-month treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one-third of the world's population, resulting in ni...

Alcohol And Drug Abuse (Cannabis) Leading Causes For Road Traffic Accidents

A new study reveals that the risk for a road traffic accident is significantly greater following consumption of even very small amounts of cannabis. Evidence of cannabis use were found in 7% of drivers // involved in fatal crashes by the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research. These figures are comparatively lesser compared to drivers who consumed alcohol (21.4%). T...

Down’s Syndrome Is The Leading Birth Defect In the U

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that facial abnormalities and Down's syndrome are the leading birth defects in the country.// "It helps to understand the scope of these conditions so we can understand the import they have on families around the country," said Joann Petrini, director of the perinatal data cent...

Exposure to Grating, Noise, Music Can Cause Tumors Leading To Deafness

A study by researchers at the Ohio State University says that regular exposure to a cacophony of sound makes a person one-and-a-half times more vulnerable to develop a tumor called as acoustic neuroma. //Eventually, people with this tumor develop deafness or hearing loss due to the impingement of this tumor on the cranial nerve that is responsible for hearing and maintaining the balance of an ind...

Bottleneck: High on Spirits Can Cause A Dispirited Liver, Leading To Cirrhosis!

If you are hooked on to hooch, or a binge drinker, who is over the board regularly, its time to cork the bottle tight and do something worthwhile to kick the tendency. // Medical experts have issued a wake –up call to the inebriated, that cirrhosis, a disease of the liver is not far away, and is like a ticking time bomb, waiting to explode. Infact, figures show that there has been an...

Foetuses Cant Feel Pain Says A Leading Psychologist

Dr Stuart Derbyshire, of the University of Birmingham, a leading psychologist said yesterday that foetuses couldn’t experience pain. He said that by telling women, who are considering abortions that their unborn child // can feel pain was not right and exposed them to inappropriate and possibly dangerous medical treatment. Dr Derbyshire carried out a study for evidence of the existence...

Journalist Petitions Court Pleading Mercy Killing

A 79-year-old freelance journalist here has petitioned the Rajasthan High Court seeking permission for euthanasia, saying he wants to die with dignity//. In his petition filed Wednesday, Giriraj Prasad Gupta pleaded for mercy killing on the ground that he was unable to perform his day-to-day functions independently and did not want to lead a crippled life waiting for death. H...

Lifting The Screen off Misleading Sunscreen labels

Ambiguous labeling on sun lotions may actually lull the consumer into a false sense of complete protection, which might actually not be the case//. The European commission has got its act together on this issue, to redress the misinformation in the labeling of sun lotions and its allied products. The labels that have raised eyebrows and offered misleading cues by captivatingly labeling...

Elements In Grape fruit Juice Combine Lethally with Certain Drugs, leading to potentially dangerous side effects, study.

Novel research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has zeroed in on a substance in grapefruit juice that could cause dangerous side effects when ingested with certain drugs.// Certain medications administered to patients for control of blood pressure and cholesterol and other drugs if consumed along with grape fruit juice could cause unhealthy and even dangerous side ef...

Oxygen-Induced Damage A Leading Cause For Parkinson’s Diseas

Cellular damage induced by oxygen free radicals may be one important factor contributing to Parkinson’s disease, reports a new study. //This groundbreaking study conducted by neuroscientists at the University of Virginia Health System highlights that damage of complex I, a protein that plays a major role in the electron transport chain inside the mitochondria has been blamed for cellular damage i...

Misleading Health Claims On Food Labels No Longer Allowed in EU

European Union lawmakers decided on Tuesday that food companies will not be allowed to make tall claims on their products any longer. //The decision marks the first time that EU lawmakers have clamped down on misleading claims or health benefits on the food labels. EU is also looking to set a common standard for vitamins, minerals and food additives. There will not be any banks on food...

Cardiogenic Shock is the Leading Cause of Death for Heart Attack Patients

People who has got the heart attack for the time and has survived cannot be termed as out of danger totally, despite the best of treatment given to them//. A new study has found that one out of ten of them will develop cardiogenic shock, which can reduce the amount of blood to be pumped to the vital organs. As a result blood pressure shoots up, the skin becomes cool and body’s organs stop functio...

A Correlative Study On The Link Between Education And The Leading Causes Of Preventable Death

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers from the Cornell University in the United States used rich microdata from the National Longitudinal Study //of Youth in 1979, to analyze the correlation between high school completion and the two leading preventable causes of death – smoking and obesity. Their findings, which are to be published in the forthcoming July issue of the Journal of Labor Eco...

Spurious Drugs is a Leading Cause of Casualties Among Drug Users

While the consumption of narcotics substances is potentially lethal in itself, a more potent menace is the increasing supply of spurious drugs //that is leading to a higher casualty rate among drug users in India, especially when consumed with alcohol, according to experts. 'The 'impure' drugs are more dangerous as quite often the users do not even know about the presence of impurities...

Walkers Crisps Advertisements make Misleading Claims about Salt Content

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled yesterday that a Walkers crisps advertising campaign had made misleading claims about its salt content.// According to the industry watchdog a promotional mailing saying Walkers had decreased the salt in its crisps to "7% of your guideline daily amount" was misleading considering the fact that the reduction did not apply to all Walkers crisps. T...

Medical Council Of India Draws Public Attention on Misleading Ads.

Recently it has been observed that certain entities have issued misleading advertisements for luring innocent Indian Students //for admissions in MBBS from foreign universities. It is also mentioned in such advertisements that ‘recognition of degree by MCI would be in accordance with MCI Act 13 (4B) through screening test’. It has also been mentioned that the degrees will be offered by the foreig...

MRSA Fast Becoming The Leading Cause Of Skin Infections

A new study that has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine states that skin infections are more than ever becoming resistant to drugs// . Gregory Moran the lead author of the study, who is with the Olive View-UCLA Medical Centre, says, “MRSA, has become the leading cause of such infections seen in hospital emergency rooms.” He further mentioning that, it now accounts f...

New foetal scans are misleading

Leading doctors and scientists warned yesterday that hi-tech ultrasound scans that show 12-week fetuses sucking their thumbs// and walking in the womb are dangerously misleading and will have a bad influence on the public debate over abortion. According to experts on foetal development, the controversial images, taken with the help of a new 4-D imaging technology, have produced a fals...

Obesity Drug Advertisements Misleading Teens

Advertisements for the weight loss drug Xenical has come under criticism from consumer watchdog, Choice saying that it is misleading young teenage girls//, preying on their fears about their bodies in a breach of advertising guidelines. The ads have been screened during the high-rating Australian Idol program whose major audiences include 13- to 17-year-olds and have reportedly driven te...

Labeling of Dairy Products with Trans fat labels, Misleading to Consumers

Dairy products naturally contain trans fats and labeling these could mislead consumers giving milk and cheese a bad name, according to an expert on the health effects of fats.// Dutch Professor Ronald Mensink and his colleague proved in 1990 that artificial trans fats raise bad cholesterol levels. However he said, the world lacked information about the health impact of naturally occurr...

New Nationwide Study on Leading Cause of Vision Loss for Seniors

UT Southwestern Medical Center is participating in a nationwide study investigating //whether modified combinations of vitamins, minerals and fish oil products can slow the progression of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration. “This study will evaluate nutrient-based factors that may influence the development and progression of the two most prevalent age-related eye disease...

Italian Court Presides Over the Judgment of Incurably Ill Italian Man, Pleading Euthanasia

Rome – A decision is awaited from the Italian court, presiding over a milestone case regarding a patient named Piergiorgio Welby - suffering// from muscular dystrophy, paralyzed and terminally ill – who has petitioned the court to allow the doctors to disengage him from the respirator, and allow him to die. Italy, largely influenced by Roman Catholic sentiments, has not taken it too w...

Trans-fat Foods to Vacate Room from the World’s Leading Hotelier

In a decision announced Thursday, Marriott International claimed the complete elimination of all trans-fat containing foods from its menu throughout all its 2300// hotels. The company had already declared its hotels smoke-free last year and had since phased out trans-fats; partially hydrogenated oils that are known to clog arteries, from its cookies, breads, salad dressings, pasta and b...

Leading Polio Activist Doctor in Pakistan Killed

Friday's incident in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area (FARA) was the second in a week. Tribals view with suspicion and resent the immunization //drive carried out by the government and NGOs. The official, Abdul Ghani Khan, chief surgeon at the main government hospital in Bajur, was killed when a remote-controlled roadside bomb exploded in Salarzai, a village about 50 km...

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

A former official of the Mets, a leading baseball team of New York, has pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in San Francisco to distributing// performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current Major League Baseball players for a decade. Kirk Radomski, 37, who had worked as a clubhouse assistant for the Mets from 1985-95, admitted to selling banned drugs, including ana...

InfoLogix, Inc. the Leading Healthcare Technology Company SaysHealthcare Informatics

HATBORO, Pa., InfoLogix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IFLG), a leading provider of mobile intelligence solutions to over 1,100 hospitals in North America, was identified today as one of the greatest point gainers in the Healthcare Informatics 100-the annual list of top companies by healthcare IT revenue. InfoLogix was ranked #44 on the 2007 list: a 22 point jump over the previous year...

WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public

The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday slammed the tobacco industry for spreading untruths about smoking in public places in a bid to counter an increasing number of smoking bans around the world. The WHO said the tobacco industry has repeatedly "misled and misinformed the public about the health risks and dangers of second-hand tobacco smoke and about the economic impact of s...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

After four years of unrelenting pursuit by the Food and Drug Administration, the Purdue pharma of the US gave in, admitting it had made false claims about their popular painkiller Oxycontin. They have agreed to pay up $634.5 millions for making false claims about the drug to boost sales and also pleaded guilty to charges of playing down Oxycontins addictive and euphoric properties. <...

Leading Hospital in Andhra Plans Expansion

Care Hospitals, a leading healthcare provider in Andhra Pradesh, Thursday announced that it would invest Rs.2 billion during the next one year to set up new state-of-the-art hospitals in six states. The healthcare brand, which has just completed 10 years, plans to open new hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Orissa and Kerala. The expansio...

IIT-Kharagpur the Leading Technology College in India: Survey

New Delhi, The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, in West Bengal is the top technology and engineering college of the country, edging out IIT-Madras which held the position last year, a survey said Tuesday. According to the survey by Data Quest, a technology magazine in India, and International Data Corporation (IDC), a US-headquartered research firm, the seven IITs h...

Curry Ingredient Kills Plaque Leading to Alzheimer's

Eating curry may really be good for health, for researchers have isolated a chemical called bisdemethoxycurcumin , the active ingredient of curcuminoids a natural substance found in turmeric root that may help the immune system clear plaques found in Alzheimer's. Researchers state that the chemical may help the immune system clear amyloid beta, a peptide that forms the plaq...