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“Tuberculosis not only exacts a terrible mortality toll in India, it also has profound financial implications.TB in India is part of what continues to keep people in poverty for several years after they’ve completed their treatment. The government has pledged to eliminate TB by 2025.”
Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Spurious drugs can have harmful side-effects and can even kill. Yet India has been able to decide only 35 cases of the 606 prosecutions launched against the manufacture, sale and distribution of spurious or adulterated drugs from 2015 to 2018, according to figures provided by the Drug Controller.
Common Heart Drug May Up Sudden Cardiac Arrest Risk
London, 17 March 2019: A drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure and angina (chest pain) is associated with an increased risk of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest, according to results from the European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network (ESCAPE-NET) presented today at EHRA 2019.1
Norman “Ned” Sharpless Appointed Acting US FDA Commissioner
Maryland, 12 March 2019: National Cancer Institute Director Norman “Ned” Sharpless will become acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday.
US FDA Warns Azithromycin Antibiotics Could Lead To Deadly Heart Rhythms For Some
Maryland, 11 March 2019: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning the public that azithromycin (Zithromax or Zmax) can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart that may lead to a potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm.
Metoclopramide Nonsuperior To Placebo For Reduction Of Migraine Intensity
Kocaeli, Turkey, 8 March 2019: In patients with acute migraine, intravenous metoclopramide is nonsuperior to placebo with regard to safety and its effects on reducing the intensity of headache, according to study results published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
One Dead And Five Sickened In Mississippi By Fake Oxycodone Made With Fentanyl And Methamphetamine
Officials with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics took to local news media to warn the public about a deadly new version of counterfeit oxycodone being sold in and around Hattiesburg, the Hattiesburg American reports.
Pharmacist, Educator And PSM Board Member Speaks Out Against Drug Importation In Florida
This editorial by Kenneth "Mac" McCall was published in the Tallahassee Democrat on March 19, 2019. Dr. McCall is associate professor and director of residency programs at the University of New England College of Pharmacy. He has served as president of the Maine Pharmacy Association, and is a current PSM board member.
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Cleanliness Is Next To Ineffectiveness…Of Antibiotics
Article contributed by Prof.Erica Rogers from California, U.S.A.
The hygiene hypothesis—or more recently dubbed microbiome depletion theory—is a supposition proposed in the late 1980s from the observation that children in larger family households had fewer instances of hay fever since they were exposed to microbes by their older siblings. This observation led to further research making casual connections between the lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms, and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system.
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