FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Home-Use Diagnostic Kits Marketed by Globus Media
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to use unapproved home-use diagnostic test kits that have been marketed nationwide via the Internet by Globus Media, Montreal, Canada. The use of these products could result in false results that could lead to significant adverse health consequences. The illegal kits are labeled as: Rapid HIV Test Kit. * Rapid Syphilis Te...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
South America's giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development ?problems expected to be compounded by climate change, United Nations University experts warn. Covering more than 165,000 square kilometers ?an area roughly equal to Florida ?in the heart of South America, the P...WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned about increased risk of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across tsunami-affected areas in Southeast Asia. Nearly four weeks after the disaster struck the region on 26 December, the organization is strengthening its disease surveillance, stagnant water conditions creating conditions for mosquito vectors to multiply to sufficient leve...FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a public health advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and patient caregivers to new safety information concerning an unapproved (i.e., "off-label") use of certain drugs called "atypical antipsychotic drugs." These drugs are approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and mania, but clinical studies of these drugs to treat behavioral...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialists who have spent more than two decades leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide are warning that limited international relief supplies of antiretroviral therapies currently being distributed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean will not get to those who can least afford to pay for them. In an article appearing in the American Journal of Publi...Rodney Dykehouse of Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin warns against tech for its own sake
For the CIO, implementing electronic medical r...Investor warns of angel-venture funding gap
Payne, an entrepreneur-in-residence for the and a prominent angel investor, will be in Madison to address the June...TDS warns of continuing "Vishing" attempts
The scam is known as "Vishing," which is similar to online "Phishing...SC Johnson issues trademark warning over web offer
FreeShowerCleaner.com, which lists a postal address in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, offers a free Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower cleaner in exchange for a user's e-ma...Company issues warning on outsourced software
, a Wisconsin Rapids-based information security and research company, is warning that widespread use of outsourced commercial software by the United States military and other organizations could expose the nation to cyber terrorism caused by life cycle attacks buried deep within the millions of li...International community warns India on HIV situation
The International Community has warned India that it is time to treat the HIV situation as a national emergency. Experts attending the Peoples Health Assembly at Dhaka, Bangladesh , have cautioned India not to be complacent about the looming HIV crisis in the country. Rebuffing the optimistic statement of Union Health Minister, Dr.C.P.Takhur, the experts said if corrective measures are no...Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre
The Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) in Ahmedabad has alerted the Drug Control General of India against the excessive use of paracetamol. CERC says that the commonly use drug might cause potential liver damage and might lead on to liver failure. CERC Secretary Ashwini Kumar warns that consumers must be aware of the potential hazards of paracetamol more so because it is bein...Asthma! A new warning for heart disease
American Heart Association's 41st Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in San Antonio, Texas, has unveiled a new cousin counterpart to heart disease-Asthma. It is found that asthma increases the risk of heart disease. Carlos Iribarren, MD, MPH, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente, in his study found that non smoking patients with asthma had a risk of 33% towards...WHO warns that Asia is at high risk of Bird flu
World Health Organization feels that Asia is facing an increased threat of bird flu as new cases of bird flu infections pour in. Dr. Shigeru Omi, Regional Director, WHO Western Pacific has said though// Asian countries are planning and working to combat bird flu spread but feels that still a lot should have been done and should be done to prevent bird flu spread. It is estimated that 77 d...