AMA Warns Of Inadequately Trained Doctors Due To Lack of Resources

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has issued a warning that the nation could be faced with insufficiently trained doctors //in the future due to a lack of clinical expertise. Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, the AMA president has written to the federal MPs and senators insisting for a strategy be ...

100+ Nurses to Rally in SF Wed. to Demand Stronger Swine Flu Safety Protections: California Hospitals Remain Unprepared Despite First Nurse Death

...s fall. "Hospitals across California--and possibly the entire country--are putting registered nurses and other front-line caregivers at risk by inadequately preparing for this pandemic," said CNA/NNOC co-president Deborah Burger, RN. "If hospitals do not take urgent precautions to reverse this lack ...

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Settlement of Ethyol(R) ANDA Patent Litigation

...ss of product development and launches, dependence on few products generating majority of sales, product liability claims for which the Company may be inadequately insured, and other risks identified in this report and from time to time in our periodic reports and registration statements. These forward-looking st...

Savient Pharmaceuticals Receives Complete Response Letter from U.S. Food and Drug Administration for KRYSTEXXA(TM)

...nal therapy. Gout refractory to conventional therapy occurs in patients who have failed to normalize serum uric acid and whose signs and symptoms are inadequately controlled with xanthine oxidase inhibitors at the maximum medically appropriate dose or for whom these drugs are contraindicated. Conference...

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Change to Executive Team as Jitendra N. Doshi Assumes Position of CEO

...ss of product development and launches, dependence on few products generating majority of sales, product liability claims for which the Company may be inadequately insured, and other risks identified in this report and from time to time in our periodic reports and registration statements. These forward-looking st...

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010

...ss of product development and launches, dependence on few products generating majority of sales, product liability claims for which the Company may be inadequately insured, material litigation from product recalls, the purported class action lawsuits alleging federal securities laws violations, delays in returnin...

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Filing of Purported Class Action Lawsuits

...ss of product development and launches, dependence on few products generating majority of sales, product liability claims for which the Company may be inadequately insured, and other risks identified in this report and from time to time in our periodic reports and registration statements. These forward-looking st...

Photos: Don't Let Them See You Sweat This Summer

...ant BOTOX ((R)) (Botulinum Toxin Type A) Information BOTOX((R)) is approved for the treatment of severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis that is inadequately managed with topical agents. Important Safety Information Who should not be treated with BOTOX ((R)) BOTOX((R)) injections ...

Branded Surgery Is Not Always the "Quick Fix" it is Advertised To Be

...A short incision facelift can give an excellent result, when properly performed for the appropriate patient." "The issue of untrained or inadequately trained practitioners, some of whom are not medical doctors, performing cosmetic plastic surgery is an extremely serious patient safety concern,"...

July/August 2009 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet

... frequent contact with the medical care system than patients without diabetes. They suggest that previous studies finding such an association may have inadequately adjusted for comorbidity or exposure to the medical system. Does Diabetes Increase the Risk of Depression? By Patrick J. O'Connor, M.D., M.P.H., et...

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Retigabine Significantly Reduces the Number of Seizures in Adults With Inadequately Controlled Partial-Onset Epilepsy

SEATTLE, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Results from RESTORE 2, a placebo-controlled, Phase III study demonstrated that the investigational compound retigabine significantly reduced the number of seizures in adult patients with refractory partial-onset epilepsy when a 600 mg or 900 mg dose was a...

Study Shows Potential Benefits of Xolair(R) in Treating Children Suffering from Moderate or Severe Persistent Allergic Asthma Inadequately Controlled With Inhaled Corticosteroids

- Results demonstrate clinically significant reduction in allergic asthma attacks and further define Xolair safety profile in children age six through 11 - this includes 11-year-old children, up to their 12th birthday - Xolair is the only approved therapy to block IgE, which is associated wi...

Vantia Therapeutics' Lead Candidate VA106483 Demonstrates Positive Anti-diuretic Effect in Phase IIa Trial in Nocturia

...lst some symptoms of BPH are successfully addressed by the standard BPH therapies of alpha blockers and 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, nocturia remains inadequately treated. With estimates putting the number of BPH/nocturia sufferers at 55 million in the seven largest markets world wide, and only 10% of these beli...

SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) Receives Positive Opinion From CHMP for Once-Monthly Subcutaneous Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

... The treatment of severe, active AS in adult patients who have responded inadequately to conventional therapy. "With today's decision, SIMPONI...effective regardless of prior treatment experience, which included patients inadequately responding to methotrexate and patients previously treated with anti-TNF ag...

Studies Show AFRESA(R) Controls Post-Meal Sugar Levels With Less Weight Gain and Hypoglycemia Risk for Diabetes Patients

...glycemia. AFRESA is conveniently administered by oral inhalation. Type 2 Study Design and Key Findings Patients with type 2 diabetes who were inadequately controlled (A1C 7.0% and </=11.0%) despite insulin with/ without oral anti-hyperglycemic therapy were randomized to a 52-week course of either AFRE...

Boehringer Ingelheim Unveils Diabetes Pipeline

...cally relevant and statistically significant reductions in HbA1c, a measure of blood sugar, when given as add-on therapy to type 2 diabetes patients inadequately controlled on metformin (placebo-corrected changes from baseline; -0.40 percent for the 1 mg dose, -0.73 percent for the 5 mg dose, and -0.67 percent ...

Takeda to Revise Timing of Alogliptin and Alogliptin/ACTOS MAA Filings in Europe

...ared to glipizide when used in combination with metformin in targeted number of almost 2,500 subjects with type 2 diabetes, whose blood sugar level is inadequately controlled with metformin. With the results of this additional study, Takeda expects that the MAA submissions will be made with a more robust da...

Vantia Therapeutics' Pipeline Continues to Mature

...lst some symptoms of BPH are successfully addressed by the standard BPH therapies of alpha blockers and 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, nocturia remains inadequately treated. With estimates putting the number of BPH/nocturia sufferers at 55 million in the seven largest markets world wide, and only 10% of these beli...

InteKrin Therapeutics Announces Enrollment Completion of 360 Patient, 24 week Phase 2b Study

... unique properties of INT131, a potent insulin sensitizer, in patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), said Alex DePaoli, M.D. InteKri...ical feature in the onset and subsequent progression of T2DM, which remains inadequately addressed by current therapies. About InteKrin ( www.InteKrin.com ): ...

Roche and FDA Agree on Pathway Towards U.S. Approval of ACTEMRA(R) (tocilizumab)

...tion is for use of RoActemra in combination with methotrexate for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe RA who have either responded inadequately to, or who were intolerant to, previous therapy with one or more DMARDs or TNF antagonists. In these patients, RoActemra can be given as monotherapy i...

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Trichinosis

...lop trichinosis . ... What are the symptoms of trichinosis ? ... Trichinosis is rare in the US. ... You can get trichinosis by eating raw or inadequately cooked pork, pork products ... Trichinosis sometimes has no symptoms. ... Trichinosis &mdash; Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, tre...

Mastoiditis

...atment Prognosis Prevention Resources Mastoiditis Definition Mastoiditis is an infection of As mastoiditis progresses, the spaces enlarge. inadequately treated mastoiditis can result in deafness, blood poisoning (sepsis) ... Mastoiditis information including symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnos...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

... Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the most common name given to an inadequately understood, variably debilitating disorder or disorders characterized by medically unexplained symptoms. It is also commonly known as myalgic encephal...

Byssinosis

...nosis , also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. Byssinosis commonly occurs in workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries. It is not thought...

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Gene therapy demonstrates benefit in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

...RA develops when, for unknown reasons, the body's immune system turns against itself, causing joints to become swollen and inflamed. If the disease is inadequately controlled, the tissues of the joint are eventually destroyed. Although anti-inflammatory agents and biologics can help to mitigate symptoms, there is...

People with heart disease still have trouble controlling blood lipid levels

...le 67 percent were at recommended levels for all lipids. The study reveals that many adults, particularly those with known cardiovascular diseases, inadequately control these key lipids. Proper diet, exercise, and more appropriate use of therapies to target all lipids are needed, especially for those most at r...

New study reveals for first time how BRCA1 mutations cause breast cancer

...led to turn up any abnormalities. The researchers scanned 34 biopsies taken from women with BRCA1 tumors. The PTEN gene had been split in two, but inadequately repaired in about one-third of the cancers. In some cases, entire sections of the gene were missing; in others, one-half of the gene was reattached to...

Toll of climate change on world food supply could be worse than thought

...ssed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new scientific reports. The authors say that progressive changes predicted to stem from 1- to 5-degree C temperature rises in co...

Study shows some athletic men may risk low bone density

... approximately two-fold in osteopenic individuals and five-fold in people with osteopenia. Low bone density in males often remains undiagnosed and inadequately treated and, after suffering a fracture, men are less likely to receive follow-up care than women. Risk factors for osteoporosis in men are simila...

Hydrothermal vents: Hot spots of microbial diversity

...ous diversity we found using 454 tag sequencing suggests that even the largest metagenomic surveys--which capture only the most highly abundant taxa-- inadequately represent the full extent of microbial diversity, says MBL scientist David Mark Welch, one of Hubers co-authors. Even with tag sequencing, statistical...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

... of freezing, cold or burning sensations usually of the limbs and most often of the lower extremities.5 Many individuals with neuropathic pain respond inadequately to current treatment options.6,7 “It’s hard to explain to someone who has never felt this type of pain. It’s like being plugged into an electric so...

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Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Markets Generic Casodex(R) Tablets

...ss of product development and launches, dependence on few products generating majority of sales, product liability claims for which the Company may be inadequately insured, and other risks identified in this report and from time to time in our periodic reports and registration statements. These forward-looking st...

FDA Appointed Arthritis Advisory Committee Recommends U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approval for KRYSTEXXA(TM) for Refractory Chronic Gout

...ractory chronic gout or treatment failure gout (TFG) is gout in patients who have failed to normalize serum uric acid and whose signs and symptoms are inadequately controlled with conventional urate-lowering therapy at the maximum medically appropriate dose or for whom conventional urate-lowering therapy is contr...

CV Therapeutics' Board of Directors Rejects Astellas' Tender Offer

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

CV Therapeutics Advises Stockholders to Take No Action at This Time in Response to Astellas' Tender Offer

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

CV Therapeutics' Board of Directors Rejects Astellas Unsolicited Proposal

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

CV Therapeutics Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

CV Therapeutics Statement on Unsolicited Proposal From Astellas

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

Epilepsia Study Demonstrates New Add-on Antiepileptic Drug Vimpat(R) (lacosamide) Significantly Reduces Partial-Onset Seizures in Adults With Epilepsy

...e new antiepileptic drug Vimpat(R) (lacosamide) demonstrated significantly fewer seizures in adult partial-onset epilepsy patients whose seizures were inadequately controlled despite taking up to three other AEDs, according to a Phase III clinical study published online in Epilepsia . In the study, seizure...

Video: Allergan Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Approval of Latisse(TM) -- First and Only Treatment Approved by the FDA for Hypotrichosis of Eyelashes

...ith surgical repair to reduce antagonist contracture. And BOTOX(R) is approved for the treatment of severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis that is inadequately managed with topical agents. BOTOX(R) Cosmetic is approved for the temporary treatment of moderate to severe frown lines between the brows in peo...

CV Therapeutics Reports 2008 Third Quarter Financial Results

...ase tablets) is approved for use in the European Union as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line anti anginal therapies. CV Therapeutics also has other clinical and preclinical drug development candidates and...

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Ebola

...rwards (Draper 19). Meanwhile, the nurses at the hospital had an Ebola epidemic on their hands. The needle used for Lokela's quinine injection was inadequately sterilized, so Ebola had spread from patient to patient as the needles were reused. They called Dr. Ngoi Mushola, the area director, for help. He taug...