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Impotence Drugs Ordered by FDA to have Label Change

Yesterday evening the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered that all impotence// drugs must have updated labeling as several cases have been reported to cause sudden vision loss among users. It is also advised that all consumers should stop taking impotency related drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levira and call a doctor or healthcare providers immediately, if they experience sudden or...

Poultry Ordered Indoors Following Bird Flu Suspicion In Germany

Reports of positive bird flu infection in wild swans have been reported by Germany and Austria. In response to the H5N1 virus detection, // the German government has ordered that all domestic poultry be moved indoors. Four other European nations have reported outbreaks this week and the disease now appears unstoppable, at least among wild birds. The latest suspected infe...

Doctor Accused Of Misdiagnosing 208 Patients: Further Investigation Ordered

An overseas-trained doctor, Farid Zaer, who has registered himself as a general practitioner in NSW has moved on to Queensland, to continue his medical practice.// The doctor has been prohibited from practicing elsewhere as he has been accused for wrong diagnosis involving nearly 208 patients. The doctor still holds the license to work as a GP, without any restriction or supervision....

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

The dynamic field of medical tourism has created new vistas, enabling a panorama of cutting-edge healthcare services across the world.// In the race for being the best in the market and offering out-of-the-box solutions, the contributions of the industry’s powerful trident - Pharmaceutical Industry, Doctors and Pharmacists, is no mere coincidence. “Medicine heals doubts as well as disea...

Prevalence of Self-reported Snoring, Sleep-disordered Breathing in Military

A previous survey of approximately 5,000 United Kingdom residents found that 48 percent of men and 34 percent of women reported habitual or regular snoring//. This condition has been associated with male gender, obesity, excessive daytime sleepiness, increasing age, night time awakenings, and smoking and mechanical obstruction in the upper airway. Additional studies report that some two p...

Hypertensive Kids at risk of sleep disordered breathing

A minor study reported at the American Heart Association's 60th Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research reveals that kids with high blood// pressure may be at risk of sleep breathing disorders. The study was conducted on kids with high blood pressure, 60 % of whom were affected by a disorder called sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Short phases of upper...

Neo-Natal Intensive Care Ordered to Shut Down in Phillipines

An order to shut down the neo-natal intensive care unit of the Rizal Medical Center in the province of Rizal with immediate //effect was passed by the Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III following reports of the death of seven new born babies. The unfortunate deaths of all the 7 babies have been certified by the hospital to have occurred due to uncontrolled bacterial infec...

Judicial Probe Ordered for Botched Eye Surgery Camp

The Assam government Friday ordered a judicial probe to investigate a botched cataract surgery camp at the Guwahati Medical College in which 38 people were blinded.// Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the enquiry would be conducted by a retired judge of the Gauhati High Court and was expected to submit the report in three months. "We are taking the issue very seriou...

Probe Ordered into Children’s Death in Chhattisgar

Raipur: Authorities ordered a probe Saturday a day after two minors died minutes after receiving an injection at a government health// centre in Korba district of Chhattisgarh. Two brothers, Umashanker, 6 years, and Gaurishankar, 4 years, died within 10 minutes after they received injections for treatment of fever, cough and cold Friday in village Tilkeja. Two other member...

Travelers Beware: Is Your Medicine Really What the Doctor Ordered?

Patients who fill their prescriptions while traveling abroad need to be cautious according to new research presented for the first time at the AAPS National Biotechnology Conference. Unlike approved generic drug names, brand names of drugs are not standardized internationally. Therefore, consumers should not assume that a branded product in one country is the same as a product with...

Seven Children Ordered Removed from Squalid Home in Texas

Yet another case of grossly mismanaged household in US has come to light . A Texas judge on Wednesday ordered seven young children removed from their home in Lubbock after authorities discovered it was infested with rats and filled with garbage, including stacks of dirty diapers nearly 4 feet high in closets. Authorities went to the dilapidated house after the 26-year-old Gl...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

Chickens are coming home to roost? Those involved in biological weapons programs should be logically liable to infection because of some slip or other. And it seems to have happened in US and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ordered the biodefense research laboratory at Texas A&M University to stop all work on select agents and toxins. The CDC is investig...