Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
It was a blessing in disguise, even after a few friends had pushed me to try homeopathy for years when I was still stuck in the nothing but medicine rut. Homeopathy is a form a alternative medicine, where “like cures like.” The ironic aspect of my fury …
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(Reuters) – Jordan’s Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc said it is looking to expand in Africa over the next two to three years, through building its own plant or by making an acquisition of up to $300 million. The company, which makes and sells branded and generic drugs, said it would be a natural progression to ramp up its presence in the African continent, given that it derives more than half its revenue from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. …
{ to go with JANE KWIATKOWSKI STORY} Diana Libarba, fitness instructor leads Senior Power Exercise, Club 99 is a fitness club sponsored by Erie County to promote activity for those ages 65 and older at the Northwest Community Center,on Tuesday, Oct. 2, …
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BOSTON (Reuters) – The drug-mixing company at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak solicited bulk orders from physicians and failed to require proof of individual patient prescriptions as required under state regulations, emails to a customer show. Reuters reviewed more than a dozen emails that show the New England Compounding Center, contrary to Massachusetts regulations, sold drugs without requiring physicians to supply individual patient prescriptions. The customer confirmed that NECC supplied the clinic with drugs without patient names or prescriptions. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers on Friday widened their investigation into the deadly meningitis outbreak to include the role state regulators played in monitoring the pharmacy that produced steroid treatments blamed for killing 14 people in six states. The U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee called on the Massachusetts pharmacy board to tell congressional staff what it knew about the New England Compounding Center before the recall of more than 17,000 vials of injectable steroid treatments for back and joint pain from health facilities in 23 states. …
At least seven scientists resigned in protest this week from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming the agency created with the backing of the governor and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is charting a new “politically-driven” path that puts commercial interests before science.
KANPUR: It has long been believed that only people past middle age are prone to arthritis. No wonder 26-year-old Namita Verma, a bank employee, was shocked when she was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis (a type of arthritis), a condition caused by …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden's spirited performance in the vice presidential debate had Republicans criticizing him on Friday for snide grins and a comment on Libya, but it set the stage for President Barack Obama to try to regain his footing in a rematch with challenger Mitt Romney next Tuesday. After Obama was seen as largely passive against resurgent Republican Romney last week in their first debate before the November 6 U.S. …
The deadly meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated pain injections has prompted calls for tighter federal regulation of compounding pharmacies, which have periodically been blamed for crippling and sometimes fatal injuries. But this isn't the first time Congress has pushed for more authority over the industry.
Soda makers, restaurateurs and other businesses sued Friday to try to block the city’s unprecedented move to restrict sales of super-sized, sugary drinks, an effort the city called a coup for public health but the industry views as unfair and undemocratic.
At least seven scientists resigned in protest this week from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming the agency created with the backing of the governor and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is charting a new “politically driven” path that puts commercial interests before science.
(Reuters) – Michigan, one of the worst-affected states in the deadly meningitis outbreak, on Friday suspended the license of the Massachusetts-based company that made potentially contaminated medication, and accused it of violating state licensing law. Three people have died in Michigan and it has the second-largest number of meningitis cases of 12 states affected by the outbreak at 41, after Tennessee with 50 cases and six deaths. Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a joint statement that an investigation is also under way in the state. …