WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tentatively approved the 75th anti-retroviral generic drug of the president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief.
Marketed by Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd. of Kachigam, Daman, in India, the FDA said the drug — generic lamivudine — is a nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor that blocks an enzyme called reverse transcriptase that’s important to human immunodeficiency Read the rest of this entry »
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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals announced today that the Company has received FDA approval to begin Phase II trials for Serdaxin(TM), for the treatment of major depressive disorders (MDD)
ROCKVILLE, MD, USA | September 10, 2008 |
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: RNN – News), a leader in innovative therapeutics for life-threatening and life-debilitating diseases, announced today that the Company has received FDA approval to begin Phase II trials for Read the rest of this entry »
Lots of people think they know the best way to work out. Many of them are wrong.
When it comes to fitness, you can’t believe everything you hear. What might work for one person might not work for another, and one person’s success can be misleading to another.
“Sometimes your friend who is taking you to the gym is the worst person to get advice from,” said Robert Rolley, general manager at Key Largo Fitness and Tanning. “You can be working Read the rest of this entry »
For people wanting to avoid getting stuck by a needle to get the flu vaccine, there’s a good alternative available — as students at Central Community College in Grand Island discovered on Thursday.
A grant provided the Central District Health Department with 500 doses of flu mist, a vaccine delivered through nasal spray.
“We wanted to target underserved populations,” said Teresa Anderson, executive director of the department. Read the rest of this entry »
By Shannon Fiecke, Staff Writer
A Jordan grandmother has become a center face in a renewed push to legalize the use of marijuana for chronically or critically ill patients in Minnesota.
Last week’s testimony from Joni Whiting — whose daughter Stephanie used marijuana to relive suffering from melanoma cancer —brought a Senate panel to tears, according to Rep. Mark Buesgens of Jordan, who has signed onto medical marijuana legislation.
The Read the rest of this entry »
THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) — After nearly a year of
review, U.S. health officials said Thursday that they supported the
continued use of the controversial cholesterol-lowering drug
Vytorin.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said there was no
significant difference in carotid artery thickness between patients
taking Vytorin and patients taking the drug Zocor.
But, the agency reported, the levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol
decreased by Read the rest of this entry »
Dear Monica, I enjoyed your
. However, I cannot believe that you did not mention the direct relationship between the intake of casein (milk protein) and the growth of mammary tumors. T. Colin Campbell in his
outlines how this protein turns on tumor growth and the lack of it in the diet turns off cancer growth. ”
Before saying anything else, let me first say that I completely support anyone who does not care to consume dairy products, for whatever Read the rest of this entry »
A woman consulting with me on diet issues reported this response to her husband when he started hinting that she was getting a bit too ample in the derriere. Pointing to his belly fat, she predicted that he had more of a chance of dying from his weight problem than she.
Too bad, so sad. Unfortunately men, this does appear to be accurate. Weight in the middle tends to put pressure on the inner organs, as we heard yesterday on the Today Show from Read the rest of this entry »
The Flexitarian Diet – The Mostly Vegetarian Way To Lose Weight, Lower Blood Pressure, Be Healthier & Add Years To Your Life – New Book
You’re inclined toward eating vegetarian – you want to eat less meat and more vegetables, fruits, plant-foods and whole grains. Or maybe you’re just more health-conscious than you used to be, but you’re not ready to give up that occasional chicken breast or meatball. You want the health benefits of eating vegetarian, Read the rest of this entry »