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Testosterone Replacement Therapy Safe If Monitored Appropriately

About 2 million to 4 million men in the United States have low levels of testosterone. Symptoms of the condition // may include erectile dysfunction, reduced muscle mass, reduced bone density, depression, and anemia. Testosterone replacement therapy is designed to increase testosterone levels for men with the condition. The therapy may be offered as an injection, patch, gel, or tablet. N...

Drug Prices in India to be Monitored - NPPA to Tie up with ORG

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been working// on bringing down the prices of 25 non-scheduled formulation packs through negotiations with the manufacturers and has finally succeeded. According to NPPA most of the companies in question voluntarily agreed to bring about a price reduction ranging between 2.14% to 34.62% after they were called for a personal hearing...

New Drug Exubera (Oral Inhaled Insulin) To Be Monitored By Pfizer

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Pharmaceutical industries grant for R&D to be monitored

The Office of Fair Trading is responsible for checking the profits and safety of the drugs the pharmaceutical //manufacturers sell to the NHS. They have to monitor that only branded and quality medicines are sold and the prices should be reasonable. The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme [PPRS] is a voluntary organization which monitors and legislates the agreement of the pricing an...

Children Monitored For Obesity

In US a summer obesity test is to be conducted among children in the age group of four to ten. This test is to analyze whether the kids are following proper eating habits// and there by keep their parents informed about their health. This step is mainly to tackle the worsening health crisis. But the Children's Commissioner and their own child health officials fear that telling the child’s...

Carefully Monitored Treatment Can Help Those Who Suffer from Depression

More than two-thirds of people who suffer from major depression can become symptom-free if they are willing to work with their doctors //and try various treatments to determine which work best for them, which may involve taking different antidepressants or adding cognitive therapy to the mix. The largest study on treatments for depression, led by UT Southwestern Medical Center, found t...

Worlds Heaviest Man Loses Weight Thanks to Monitored Dieting

Manuel Uribe Garza, thought to be the world's fattest man, had weighed a humongous 560 kg, over half a ton. But he has been able to shed in just over a year as much as 180 kg as a consequence of some well monitored dieting. Seven fully grown men in all, standing in a line. That was how he used to look like. Now two men could be said to have gone out of his body! No-one knows for s...

Australian Children Sleep Less, Perhaps Not Well Monitored

Childrens lives in the developed countries seem to be becoming ever more hectic. With the result they tend to sleep less. A new study reveals that Australian children in the 10-15 year age group tend to sleep at least half an hour less every nigth when compared with just one generation ago. Increased part-time working hours, mobile phones, computer usage and television watching are...

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

So-called functional foods need to be systematically monitored because not enough is known about their long-term safety and effectiveness , say a group of scientists writing in todays British Medical Journal. Functional foods are modified foods which claim to improve health, quality of life and/or well-being, for example, yoghurts or margarines which improve the health of your gut...

Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored from Space

Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESAs environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely originated from South American wildfires some 13 000 kilometres away. Using SCIAMACHY, Annemieke Gloudemans from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and her colleagues at Utrec...

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital had a molecules eye view of the human cells DNA repair kit as it assembled on a double-strand break to link together the broken ends. Double-strand breaks are ruptures that cut completely across the twisted, ladder-like structure of DNA, breaking it into two pieces. Using a technique developed specifically for this project, the...