Supreme Court To Hear Case On Product Liability For Pharmaceutical Companies The Supreme Court during the 2008-2009 term, which begins on Monday, will hear cases "testing the boundary between federal and state authority," such as a case that could determine whether "injured people can bring claims against allegedly defective
drugs and other products to state courts," USA Today reports. The court likely will hear the case,
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWalgreens September Sales Rise 10.0 Percent In Comparison To 2007 Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) had September sales of $4,854,000,000, an increase of 10.0 percent from $4,410,987,000 for the same month in 2007. Sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) rose 4.7 percent, while comparable store front-end sales increased 1.3 percent. September pharmacy sales increased 11.2 percent, while comparable pharmacy sales increased 6.5 percent. Comparable pharmacy sales were negatively impacted by 2.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBiothera Develops New Method For Analyzing Beta Glucan Structure Biothera has developed a new analytical method to characterize a key structural attribute of beta 1,3/1,6 glucans, which will aid researchers developing this immune-enhancing carbohydrate for pharmaceutical applications. The method was presented recently to scientists at both the International Carbohydrate Symposium in Oslo, Norway, and the American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThe Eyes Have It - Concerns About Ophthalmic Medications - Medical Journal Of Australia Topical ophthalmic medications have the potential to cause significant systemic side effects and to seriously interact with oral medications, according to an editorial in the 6 October issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMajor Study Of Opiate Use In Children's Hospitals Provides Simple Steps To Alleviate Harm Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling
drugs known as opiates. The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. Constipation, for instance, is one side effect that can cause discomfort - and even extend a child's hospital stay.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGalenea And Otsuka Pharmaceutical Extend & Expand Schizophrenia Research Collaboration Galenea Corp. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced today the extension and expansion of their research and development collaboration. The two companies have been working together since January 2005 to discover and develop novel therapies for schizophrenia and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The new agreement calls for a one year extension of the initial five-year alliance and brings the total committed funding for the collaboration to over $75 million.
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HIV Cases Increasing Among Women, MSM In Rural China, Study Says The number of HIV/AIDS cases among men who have sex with men has increased eightfold during the past few years in areas of China, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature, Reuters reports. The study also found that the proportion of women in their reproductive years who are HIV-positive has doubled during the past 10 years.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWalgreens September Sales Rise 10.0 Percent In Comparison To 2007 Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) had September sales of $4,854,000,000, an increase of 10.0 percent from $4,410,987,000 for the same month in 2007. Sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) rose 4.7 percent, while comparable store front-end sales increased 1.3 percent. September pharmacy sales increased 11.2 percent, while comparable pharmacy sales increased 6.5 percent. Comparable pharmacy sales were negatively impacted by 2.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRegional Pharmacy Chain Discovers Billing Overcharges And Voluntarily Repays Massachusetts Medicaid Program Today, regional pharmacy chain The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC (Stop & Shop) has voluntarily returned $269,000 to the Massachusetts Medicaid Program, Mass
Health, after the company conducted a self-audit and determined it had been overpaid for pharmacy charges it submitted to Mass
Health. "Pharmacies hold a position of trust with their patients and members of the community at large," Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBiothera Develops New Method For Analyzing Beta Glucan Structure Biothera has developed a new analytical method to characterize a key structural attribute of beta 1,3/1,6 glucans, which will aid researchers developing this immune-enhancing carbohydrate for pharmaceutical applications. The method was presented recently to scientists at both the International Carbohydrate Symposium in Oslo, Norway, and the American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThe Eyes Have It - Concerns About Ophthalmic Medications - Medical Journal Of Australia Topical ophthalmic medications have the potential to cause significant systemic side effects and to seriously interact with oral medications, according to an editorial in the 6 October issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
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The Eyes Have It - Concerns About Ophthalmic Medications - Medical Journal Of Australia Topical ophthalmic medications have the potential to cause significant systemic side effects and to seriously interact with oral medications, according to an editorial in the 6 October issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudy Finds Computer Software As Effective As Second Radiologist Computer-aided detection software for mammograms is nearly as effective as a second radiologist reading the test results to determine the presence of breast tumors, according to a study published on Thursday in the New England Journal of
Medicine, Reuters reports (Emery, Reuters, 10/1).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMedical Student Gender And Self-Confidence - Females Underestimate Their Abilities And Males Tend To Overestimate Theirs Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related to their competency. A new study published in the September 2008 issue of Patient Education and Counseling found that female medical students also appeared less confident to patients.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFederal Medicaid Funding For Calif. Family Planning Program Reduced Over Undocumented Count California and the federal government are in a dispute over funding for the state's Medicaid-funded family planning program -- called the Family Planning, Access Care and Treatment Program, or Family PACT -- the Los Angeles Times reports. The program offers contraceptive services, counseling, education, prenatal care and sexually transmitted infection testing to about 1.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSoothing Music Reduces Stress, Anxiety And Depression During Pregnancy Says Study Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy
medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, randomly assigned 116 pregnant women to a music group and 120 to a control group.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comResMed Announces First Major Study To Investigate How Breathing Difficulties During Sleep Affect Heart Failure Patients ResMed today announced it has launched the SERVE-HF study at the 18th European Respiratory Society's (ERS) annual congress in Berlin, Germany. The study is to investigate the use of its AutoSet CS™2 device in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing that affects patients with chronic heart failure.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCDC Releases Updated Estimates About HIV Prevalence In U.S.; Agency Says 1.1 Million People Living With Virus CDC on Friday in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released updated estimates of HIV prevalence in the U.S., saying that 1.1 million people were living with the virus at the end of 2006, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the increase in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCholera In Iraq - Update, World Health Organization On 20 August 2008, the Government of Iraq reported the first cholera cases of the year. As of 28 September 2008, a total of 341 laboratory-confirmed cholera cases, including five deaths, had been verified (case-fatality rate: 1.5%). Nine provinces have already been affected, with Babil accounting for the majority of cases (58%), followed by Baghdad (18%) and Kerbala (9%).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFree Prescription Drug Samples Given To Children Might Be Unsafe Free
prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge
Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's Hospital. The national study, the first to look at free drug sample use among children, appears in the October 2008 issue of Pediatrics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBiothera Develops New Method For Analyzing Beta Glucan Structure Biothera has developed a new analytical method to characterize a key structural attribute of beta 1,3/1,6 glucans, which will aid researchers developing this immune-enhancing carbohydrate for pharmaceutical applications. The method was presented recently to scientists at both the International Carbohydrate Symposium in Oslo, Norway, and the American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia.
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