The Minister of State for Health Dr Aliyu Idi Hong has said that all importers and producers of counterfeit drugs will henceforth be prosecuted.
Hong, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the era of mere seizure and destruction of fake drugs was over.
He said importers of counterfeit drugs constitute danger to human lives and should not be left unpunished after their goods are confiscated.
Meanwhile, the new Director General of the National Agency Read the rest of this entry »
I remember reading the “Little House” books curled up in my beanbag chair, often stuffing myself with candy (most memorably Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy), wondering how a kid could get so worked up over one little candy cane.
In the century and three-quarters since Laura strolled the prairie, American sugar consumption has shot sky-high. In 2007, our per capita intake of caloric sweeteners (refined cane and beet sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and others) Read the rest of this entry »
An Army veteran’s robbery of a Mountain View pharmacy has become the latest Santa Clara County case marred by allegations that a prosecutor withheld evidence that could have helped the defense.
There was never any dispute in the case that the veteran, Sargent Binkley of Los Altos, had robbed the pharmacy. But the jury convicted Binkley last month of using a gun to commit the robbery — a finding that makes the crime far more serious — Read the rest of this entry »
in New York is like no medical clinic I’ve ever seen. It is brightly lighted and quiet — there is no television blasting. It has wide corridors and plenty of comfortable chairs with sturdy arms, and yet few people wait more than 10 minutes to see a doctor or
.
The center, which opened in 2007, was designed especially for primary care of older adults, many of whom have complex chronic medical problems like
, heart disease and Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s choice to spearhead U.S. healthcare reform, Tom Daschle, paid more than $100,000 in back taxes for a three-year period, setting up a potential roadblock to his nomination, documents showed on Friday.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, had filed amended tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service and made payments with interest.
A Senate Finance Read the rest of this entry »
Although baseball and softball are played with nine on a side, Frank Niles of the South Shore Baseball Club in Hingham notes that, “the batter’s box and the pitcher’s mound can be pretty lonely places.”
The club opened in 1989 and offers an array of options for those chasing diamond dreams.
“We get them all,” said Niles, who played in the Kansas City Royals’ farm system before becoming a high school and college coach. “People are looking for ways Read the rest of this entry »
Testimony by Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute, before the
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, February 24, 2009
There is little debate about the need to make sure that all Americans have the security of insurance that protects them from medical bills they can’t afford and that provides them access to the care they need. But no part of the health sector, and no one goal, can be considered in isolation from the impact Read the rest of this entry »
So you started the new year on a diet, right? Giving up carbs and starches, watching the sugars, heavy on the fish and chicken and light on the beef and pork.
Forget it, says Francie Berg, founder of Healthy Weight Network. She’s a licensed nutritionist and adjunct professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.
“Resolve to follow a healthy, diet-free lifestyle through 2009,” Berg says. “You can get your life back on track, improve Read the rest of this entry »
U.K. to Urge Taiwan to Buy More Patented Drugs, Minister Says
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Britain will press Taiwan to overhaul
the way it buys medicines so that patent-protected drugs make up
a greater share of its purchases, a U.K. minister said.
“We want them to look at the industry differently,” Trade
Minister
said in an interview. “We want British
companies to have a significant presence in Taiwan and for
Taiwan to get the access to the Read the rest of this entry »
Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD
Cynthia Thomson, PhD, RD
Aaron Aragaki, MS
Garnet L. Anderson, PhD
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH
Ruth E. Patterson, PhD
Thomas E. Rohan, MD, PhD
Linda van Horn, MD, PhD
James M. Shikany, DrPH
Asha Thomas, PhD
Andrea LaCroix, PhD
Ross L. Prentice, PhD
Arch Intern Med.
2009;169(3):294-304.
Millions of postmenopausal women use multivitamins,
as cancer and cardiovascular Read the rest of this entry »