Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever?
to do about limiting over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications’ availability for use by little kids (they’ve already recommended they not be given to kids under age 2), a lot of people are spooked by the notion that such products may be ineffective or even dangerous. (For a full story on last week’s FDA hearing, see tomorrow’s Health section.) But what are the alternatives for treating kids’ colds?
When I Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzed NIH grants from 2002-2006. They also tracked the enrollment of family medicine physicians membership on NIH advisory boards. These boards review research and set research agendas for NIH institutes and centers.
Over those years, there were marginal increases in funding for family medicine, the researchers found. In 2006, family medicine received $187 million in total grants — only 0.2 percent Read the rest of this entry »
The company, Celsus Laboratories, distributes heparin to drug and medical-device manufacturers both in the United States and internationally.
FDA testing in January found that large amounts of Chinese raw heparin imported into the United Sates were contaminated with the chemical oversulfated chondroitin sulfate. The FDA believes the substance was added to allow the product to pass tests that measure heparin levels.
A major heparin recall ensued. Read the rest of this entry »
Diabetes Education: The Diabetes Association Inc., offers information and strength training led by certified exercise instructor Dara Midwood, 11 a.m.-noon Sept. 15 and 22, $1. Also, Diabetes Information Group, led by Norma Mello, 11 a.m.-noon Sept. 17, and led by Kim Halfman and Betty Sirois, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 (508) 717-0499. All held at the DAI office, 26 Caroline St., New Bedford.
Free vascular screenings: To screen for PVD (peripheral Read the rest of this entry »
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The Government was urged to build more mental health facilities inside prisons after new figures were released showing more than 100 escapes from psychiatric hospitals last year.
At least 116 patients in medium and low-security psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales escaped from the institutions or from their escorting staff, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
Four patients remain at large. The figures compare to just five escapes from Read the rest of this entry »
FOR YEARS, pharmaceutical companies have asked Congress to pass a law protecting them from liability lawsuits for drugs that have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Members of Congress, knowing only too well the fallibility of the FDA in approving drugs and monitoring their safety after approval, have rightly refused.
Now one drug company is trying to get the Supreme Court to rule that an FDA-approved warning label on its drug Read the rest of this entry »
Ministers are drawing up deals with pharmaceutical companies to cut drug
prices, meaning rationing body the National Institute of Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE) would be more likely to allow their widespread use.
The Government hopes to reveal some of the deals alongside its review of “top-up
funding” in cancer care – which is expected within days – which will
abolish rules which stop patients from getting NHS care if they pay Read the rest of this entry »
– Breaking up over e-mail is a social no-no.
But sending an e-card telling someone to get tested for STDs may be a public health courtesy.
Since 2004, a free Web site, inSpot.org has allowed users to anonymously notify their partners to get tested for STDs such as
, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis.
It may not be the most personal way of delivering the news, but researchers say it beats not saying anything at all.
“When you weigh the Read the rest of this entry »
Police have confiscated four kilograms of heroin, 3kg of tik, 2 000 Mandrax tablets and 1kg of ephedrine from a business premises in Bishop Lavis.
Police spokesperson Bernadine Steyn said police received information that illegal activities were taking place on the premises.
They searched the premises on Friday afternoon and found the drugs, which have an estimated street value of R4,5-million, Steyn said.
“We also confiscated two SAPS bullet-proof Read the rest of this entry »