IBM And Golden State Medical Supply Create Drug Safety Model To Help Combat Counterfeiting IBM (NYSE: IBM) and contract manufacturer and third party logistics provider Golden State Medical Supply (GSMS) announced the two companies have worked together to help drug companies comply with stringent
prescription drug pedigree regulations in advance of state and federal mandates. Global counterfeit drug sales will grow at almost twice the rate of legitimate pharmaceutical commerce by 2010 according to estimates from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Guidance On Making Work Less Of A Pain In The Back New guidance for employers, patients and doctors on helping people with back pain return to work will be announced on Tuesday May 5 at the University of Leicester. It is estimated that it costs society in excess of £12 billion a year with people taking time off work because of back pain. Around 80% of these costs, were not associated with healthcare but due to lost work production and associated wage replacement benefits.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRace On To Be The First To Clone Hair Follicles Ukmedix News has been avidly following news reports about progress being made with the cloning of hair follicles which could be used to regrow hair for men with male pattern baldness. The British research and development company Intercytex is busy with clinical testing and has even recruited volunteers to take part. The idea is that [...]
Source: feedproxy.google.comPain Meds Are Most Common Cause Of Death After Spinal Fusion Surgery: Middle-Aged Men With Disk Degeneration At Highest Risk Pain medications are involved in more than 20 percent of deaths occurring in the years after spinal fusion surgery for low back pain, reports a study in the April 1 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health,
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOsteoporosis a disease with no warning symptoms Obie Award-winning playwright Susan Miller laments in her one-woman show, “Is the structure of everything dissolving? I can’t count on whatever it was that held me up.” Miller had been diagnosed with osteoporosis before she was 50 and her description was both vivid and visceral. She was in good company. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 44 million Americans. [...]
Source: feedproxy.google.comShow off your feet (and toes) this summer As the weather heats up, many of you will grab your bathing suit, toss your shoes to the side and cool off by taking a relaxing dip in the pool. But some of you may be a little hesitant about exposing your feet. Why? Thick, brittle and cracked toenails, a condition referred to as onychomycosis. Onychomycosis (pronounced [...]
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