Year: 2014

Health and nutrition expert, Dr. Shikha Sharma explains in her book '101 weight Loss Tips' how certain food combinations can wreak havoc on our …
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Diet and exercise play an important role in staying healthy and losing weight, alike. However, sometimes, much of the process can also be mental.
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centres, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United Nations said. The U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said in its weekly report that a total of 1,062 people had died in Sierra Leone from the virus, with the outbreak particularly virulent in the western areas around the coastal capital Freetown. Sierra Leone is emerging as the focal point for concern in the worst Ebola outbreak on record. …

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By Zeba Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked a tentative approval for India's Ranbaxy Laboratories to make a cheap copy of AstraZeneca's heartburn drug Nexium, after its Indian plants were banned over quality control issues. The FDA has also stripped Ranbaxy of tentative approval and six-month exclusivity for a copy of Roche's antiviral Valcyte, a fresh blow to the Indian company that has been hit by a raft of regulatory bans over poor production quality. The U.S. …

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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – The Europe Union and drugmakers pledged on Thursday to invest 280 million euros ($350 million) in Ebola research, with the lion's share going to the testing and manufacture of potential vaccines. The funding will go to projects backed by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public-private scheme jointly paid for by the European Commission and the pharmaceuticals industry. Reuters reported on Oct. 22 that an IMI investment of around 200 million euros was pending. …

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(Reuters) – Drugmaker Hospira Inc reported a 14.1 percent rise in quarterly revenue as it charged higher prices and sold more of its injectable drugs. The company’s net income rose to $158.6 million, or 92 cents per share, in the quarter ended Sept. 30 from $1.9 million, or 1 cent per share, a year earlier. The increase was mainly due to a $106.3 million gain on the sale of its clinical surveillance software business, Theradoc. Revenue rose to $1.2 billion from $1 billion. Sales of injectable drugs rose 16.7 percent and accounted for about 55 percent of total sales. …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centers, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United Nations said. The U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said in its weekly report that a total of 1,062 people had died in Sierra Leone from the virus, with the outbreak particularly virulent in the western areas around the coastal capital Freetown. Sierra Leone is emerging as the focal point for concern in the worst Ebola outbreak on record. …

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