The three co-primary endpoints of the study compared the efficacy of
naproxcinod 750 mg bid to placebo, in terms of the mean change
between baseline and week 13 in the following scores: the WOMAC(TM)
pain subscale, the WOMAC(TM) function subscale and the subject’s
overall rating of disease status. The results demonstrated that
naproxcinod was superior to placebo with high statistical
significance (p < 0.001) on all three of these co- primary Read the rest of this entry »

India: U.S. Pharma Behind Ranbaxy Ban?
The Union health ministry has come to the defence of Ranbaxy, alleging that vested interests were behind the US ban on 30 drugs of the Indian pharma major. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was being pressurised by political and pharma lobbies to act against Ranbaxy, a top official of the ministry said.
“The FDA never had problems with the same drugs earlier. The moment the House (US Congress) Read the rest of this entry »

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote an interesting
of Todd Palin’s 87-year-old grandmother this week that offers a glimpse at the ties between the Palins, whose story is like many white frontier families, and Native Alaskans.
Kizzia, who wrote a book on native rural village called “The Wake of the Unseen Object,” describes Lena Andree’s upbringing in rural Alaska. Her mother was a Yup’ik Read the rest of this entry »

PANAMA CITY (AFP) — Panama seized 53 tonnes of drugs in 2008, took over 42 bank accounts, confiscated 700 cell phones and 209 vehicles connected with drug trafficking, prosecutors said in an annual report Monday.
Drug seizures were slightly below the previous year, which saw a record haul from a cargo ship of 20 tonnes in March 2007, said drug prosecutor Edwin Guardia.
The 2008 haul included 51 tonnes of cocaine and two of marijuana.
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, the former
president and coach, was found lying on the kitchen floor of his Westchester County home last Friday and was not breathing when the police responded to a 911 call to his home.
A redacted police report obtained Thursday said that oxygen was administered to an unconscious person early Friday morning. The person began breathing and was taken by ambulance to the White Plains Hospital Center for what the report described as “further Read the rest of this entry »

Two FDA-Approved Drugs May Spark Weight Loss, Fight Obesity
Boston (dbTechno) – A new study published this week in the journal Cell Metabolism has revealed that two FDA-approved drugs may be able to actually spark weight loss and fight obesity.
The study was carried out by researchers at the Harvard Medical School, as they have been working to see if drugs already on the market may be able to help people lose weight.
The two drugs focused on Read the rest of this entry »

Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 to help players reach their own fitness goals.
Deep Silver has announced it will publish Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Wii in the European PAL territories, the Commonwealth of Independent States and South Africa.
For those unfamiliar with Jillian Michaels, she’s a celebrity fitness trainer who shot to fame in the US as the strength trainer and life coach on popular television series The Biggest Read the rest of this entry »

Carla Mills, ARNP, Outlines Nurse Practitioner Rescue Plan for Health Care System in New Column for NP World News
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are poised and ready to take a leading role in health care reform, says
, author of the award-winning
A Nurse Practitioner's Guide to Smart Health Choices and founder of Maverick Health. Her new column, “NPs on the Edge,” in
will highlight the ways in which NPs can guide people to smart choices that Read the rest of this entry »

It
was a launch unlike any other as one saw a number of Bollywood stars making
their way to JW Marriott on Wednesday night.
Bikram
Choudhary and Patrick Wee were there to recieve their heartiest congratulations
as they launched True Fitness and Bikram Yoga Spa Centre. Bikram has been yoga
guru to the likes of Michael Jackson, Indira Gandhi, Madonna to name a few. True
Fitness, the brainchild of Patrick together with Bikram has yoga as the Read the rest of this entry »

If nothing you ever did was good enough for your mother, than you’ll know the tyranny of the whisper number. Traditionally,
companies are judged by the earnings they report every quarter. Wall Street analysts guess at the revenue and profits (or
losses) a company reports, and people buy and sell stocks based on whether they exceed, hit or fall short of those numbers.
Sounds
like a simple formula, but Read the rest of this entry »