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AMA Weighs In On Morning After Pill

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:04:00 GMT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The largest U.S. physicians group on Monday objected to some pharmacists' conscience-driven refusal to sell the morning-after pill, and suggested doctors may fill the void by dispensing medications themselves.

Any pharmacist who objects on the basis of conscience to filling any prescription must make an "immediate referral to an appropriate alternative dispensing pharmacy without interference," the resolution passed by delegates to the American Medical Association's annual convention said.

Some pharmacists have filed lawsuits objecting to requirements that they fill all prescriptions. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued such a directive earlier this year specifically about the morning-after pill, called Plan B.

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Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:40:52 GMT

Science and Supplement News: Grapefruit Seed Extract May Heal Ulcers
New research from Poland suggests that grapefruit seed extract may shrink and heal stomach ulcers. Although the studies have been performed only in rats, the findings were reported to physicians who treat ulcers and other stomach disorders during the 2005 Digestive Disease Week conference held in Chicago, Ill. The investigators found that treating the rat ulcers with grapefruit seed extract supplements led to a drop in gastric acid, which at higher levels contributes to ulcer formation by irritating stomach tissue. In addition, the ulcers shrank and blood flow to the sites of ulcers increased, a change that may promote healing. The animals were treated with doses of 10 milligrams per kilogram; their ulcers were completely healed after 16 days of treatment. Grapefruit seed extract has both antibacterial and antioxidant properties that may be responsible for the effects seen in the Polish study.

Source: WebMDHealth.com, May 17, 2005

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HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreading in Women

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:46:34 GMT

Over the past 20 years, HIV and AIDS have sickened more women worldwide than any other life-threatening infection, and it's now affecting American women like never before, researchers in Seattle and Baltimore report in a major new overview of the disease in women.

While cases in men increased only 1 percent from 1999 to 2003, estimated AIDS cases in U.S. women increased 15 percent, with younger women and women of color especially hard hit, the scientists wrote in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Newly diagnosed men still far outnumber women each year in the U.S. About 31,600 men were diagnosed in 2003, compared with about 11,500 women. But the researchers emphasize that the disease is expanding in women worldwide.

"There is no sign that it's going anywhere but up," said Dr. Julie Overbaugh, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center expert in HIV transmission and co-author of the report.

"I think young women are at high risk because of predisposing [physical] factors and because in some situations they have limited abilities to negotiate the terms of sex with their partners."

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Polyphenols - Alzheimer's Risk May Be Cut

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:42:36 GMT

"This is the first study to try to get at polyphenol exposure," said Amy Borenstein of the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Polyphenols, also known as flavonoids, are substances found in plants that have antioxidant properties. Borenstein said polyphenols generally are found in higher concentrations in juices than in whole fruits and vegetables.

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New US move to spoil climate accord

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:34:52 GMT

The documents obtained by The Observer represent an attempt by the Bush administration to undermine completely the science of climate change and show that the US position has hardened during the G8 negotiations. They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions.

The documents show that Washington officials:

· Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';

· Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;

· Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

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Doctors or Drug Dealers

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:38:44 GMT

Title: Doctors or Drug Dealers Excerpt:

[The pain is so great that]‘‘Suicide might be an option.''

He nearly reached his breaking point a few weeks ago ... Body:

[The pain is so great that]‘‘Suicide might be an option.''

He nearly reached his breaking point a few weeks ago when his prescription for an opioid, or narcotic painkiller, ran out. His doctor, Richard A. Nelson, cannot renew the prescription because the federal Drug Enforcement Administration suspended his privileges to dispense certain drugs.

‘Narcotics have never been shown to heal anything,'' said Dr. Bill Rosen, who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Deaconess Billings Clinic. ‘‘All you are doing is putting a Band-Aid on a wound that will never heal.''

‘‘Physicians are between a rock and a hard place on this,'' said Dr. Douglas Carr, medical director at Deaconess Hospital in Billings. ‘‘We have been unduly concerned about abuse to the detriment of true need and appropriate use.''

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FDA Recalls Childrens Tylenol (acetaminophen)

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:57:46 GMT

FDA Recalls Children's Tylenol

by debunkb1gpharma at 07:54AM (PDT) on June 22, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Recall -- Firm Press Release

FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals Announces Nationwide Recall of Children's Tylenol Meltaways - 80 Mg, Children's Tylenol Softchews - 80 Mg and Jr. Tylenol Meltaways - 160 Mg

Contact:
Kathy Fallon, 215-273-7818
Bonnie Jacobs, 215-273-8994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Fort Washington, PA -- June 3, 2005 -- McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling all lots and all flavors of Children's TYLENOL® Meltaways 80 mg packaged in bottles and blisters, Children's TYLENOL®SoftChews 80mg packaged in blisters, and Junior TYLENOL® Meltaways 160mg packaged in blisters. The blister package design, as well as the information on the blister package and on the blister and bottle cartons may be confusing and could lead to improper dosing, including over-dosing.

Some Children's TYLENOL® Meltaways 80mg and Children's TYLENOL® SoftChews 80mg are packaged in a blister package designed to be convenient for parents who need dosing flexibility depending on the age or weight of the child. The package design includes blister cavities that contain one tablet while other cavities contain two tablets. Concerns have been raised that labeling on the carton and on the back of the two-tablet cavities may erroneously suggest to the consumer that two tablets provide a total of 80mg of the active ingredient, acetaminophen, when two tablets would actually provide 160mg of acetaminophen. Consumers should know that each tablet of Children's TYLENOL Meltaways and Children's TYLENOL SoftChews contains 80 mg of this active ingredient. Each tablet is imprinted with the number "80" to reflect this amount. Caregivers should be guided by the dosage directions in the "Drug Facts" labeling on the carton for the correct number of individual tablets to be given based on the child's age and weight.

Keywords: Recall, Children, Tylenol, acetaminophen, drugs

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Show Me A Drug W/O Side-effects & it Will Be A Sugar Pill

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:11:32 GMT

Show Me A Drug W/O Side-effects & it Will Be A Sugar Pill

by debunkb1gpharma at 10:08PM (PDT) on June 21, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Scariest Drug Side Effects( Forbes Online)

The Hippocratic Oath tells doctors: "First do no harm." But the chemists who design drugs have a grim rejoinder. "Show me a drug without side effects," a researcher once said, "and I'll show you a sugar pill."

In reality, any chemical that can help a patient can also do some measure of hurt. Some common side effects, like nausea, dizziness or slight fatigue, are manageable--especially if the end result is pneumonia or tuberculosis, diseases that were once deadly but now can be treated with antibiotics. Other side effects are just downright weird. For example, in some patients the allergy medicine Allegra, made by Sanofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ), can cause back pain.

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L-FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION IN HEALTHY POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: EFFECT ON HOMOCYSTEINE AND GLYCO-LIPID

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:06:23 GMT

During a study where hospitalized women took 7.5 mg of Folic acid homocysteine levels dropped, insulin sensitivity improved and carbohydrate metabolism improved as well. The authors decided folic acid can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

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CoQ10/New Parkinson's research could stir up further demand

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:10:16 GMT

New Parkinson's/CoQ10 research could stir up further demand

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20/06/2005 - A new study into the ability of coenzyme Q10 to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease is on the starting blocks. If the results of much-cited 2002 research by the same team are reiterated, there may be no let-up in the hot demand for CoQ10, writes Jess Halliday.

In an article reviewing research carried out so far into the effects of CoQ10 on the progressive debilitating disease, published in the July issue of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, (Elsevier, vol 107, pp 120-130), Dr Clifford Shults of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California in San Diego revealed that a new phase III trial is scheduled to commence this year.

In the past three years, demand for CoQ10 has escalated, causing soaring prices and reports of fake products entering the market.

Although there is no means of qualifying the connection, the increase in demand is thought to have been triggered by the publication of Shults’ earlier phase II study, published in 2002 in the Archives of Neurology (59, pp 1541-1550) , which showed a “positive trend for coenzyme Q10 to slow progressive disability that occurs in Parkinson’s disease.”

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Whey protein could fight gut infection and save lives

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:51:20 GMT

Whey protein could fight gut infection and save lives

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A natural approach to gut health

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16/06/2005 - Researchers in New Zealand’s Massey University have reported that whey protein concentrate reduced the severity of rotavirus-induced diarrhea in a mice model. If replicated in humans, this result could help save the lives of children all around the world.

Rotavirus-induced diarrhea is a common infection that mainly affects children between the ages of three months and two years. Most children will have had a rotavirus infection by the age of five, and in the United States there are around three million cases each year and 55,000 hospitalizations of under-fives for administration of intravenous fluids.

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Green tea fights autoimmune disorders

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:49:14 GMT

Green tea could fight autoimmune disorders

Black tea as good as green in oral cancer prevention, say researchers

Mechanism for green tea's anti-cancer action revealed

Green tea reduces prostate risk

Tea could prevent diabetes and cataracts

Positive research driving green tea consumption

New insight into green tea's action on bladder cancer

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16/06/2005 - Polyphenols founds in green tea may help protect the body autoimmune disorders, believes an oral biologist who has conducted extensive studies into their health promoting properties.

Dr Stephen Hsu, a researcher at the Medical College of Georgia’s School of Dentistry, suspected that there may be a link between green tea consumption and autoimmunity after noting that dry mouth, or xerostamina, an autoimmune disorder suffered by around 30 percent of elderly Americans, occurs in only one to two percent of Chinese people in the same age group.

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Medscape Pharmacist Poll on Malpractice Caps

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:40:08 GMT

In Illinois, medical leaders and state legislators proposed a plan to cap the monetary awards given in medical malpractice lawsuits. Do you agree or disagree with this medical malpractice cap proposal?
Agree, the medical malpractice cap proposal is warranted. 79% (1247) Disagree, the medical malpractice cap proposal is not warranted. 20% (330)

Total Responses: 1577
Poll conducted 14-Jun-2005 - 21-Jun-2005

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Republicans trying to BAN another Supplement: Testosterone Nation

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:46:21 GMT

The assult on your freedom to take DHEA is about to take place unless YOU ACT NOW!

New Bill introduced to take more freedoms away. Why? Because they can!

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Herb Guggul for Hypercholesterolemia

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:36:26 GMT

The Herb Guggul binds cholesterol and decreases LDL production in the liver.

Several mechanisms have been proposed for the effects of guggul. Guggul may decrease hepatic steroid production, ultimately increasing the catabolism of plasma LDL cholesterol.[3] Alternatively, the proposed active components of guggul, guggulsterones E and Z, may increase hepatic binding sites for LDL cholesterol, thus increasing LDL clearance.[4] Still another possibility is prevention of cholesterol synthesis in the liver by ketonic steroids.[3]

Guggulsterones E and Z act as antagonists at the farnesoid X receptor, allowing more cholesterol catabolism and excretion from the body.[4] This receptor mediates the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids; by antagonizing this receptor, 7α-hydroxylase is released, stimulating cholesterol catabolism.[3,5]

Studies of the efficacy of guggul for hypercholesterolemia have produced conflicting results. Information currently available indicates that guggul may be effective for lowering total cholesterol and triglycerides in patients on a non-Western diet. The one study involving a typical American diet did not show any benefits; in fact, patients taking guggul had slight increases in LDL cholesterol. The effectiveness of guggul, if any, may depend on dietary practices.

Although most adverse effects have not been serious, the one reported case of rhabdomyolysis raises concern, especially if guggul is used in conjunction with other lipid-lowering therapies. Also, since hypercholesterolemia is a chronic disease, the long-term effects of guggul should be assessed. Until more is known, patients electing to use guggul should be closely monitored and counseled about the need for dietary modifications and exercise.

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Sugar Water Leading Source of Calories

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:22:11 GMT

6/13/2005 - A study showing that sweet drinks have overtaken white bread as the leading source of calories in the American diet may mean that the nutrition gap is even wider than previously thought, reports Jess Halliday. But according to the lead researcher, functional and fortified alternatives may not be a safe bridge.

“Now soda accounts for 14 percent of total energy, and that is surprising,” Dr Bermudez told NutraIngredients-USA.com.

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California Cautious on Medical Marijuana

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:39:19 GMT

"Right now we are analyzing the federal law," said Norma Arceo, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Health Services. "We don't know how much of that affects the state law."

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Turmeric and Psoriasis

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:41:51 GMT

"Turmeric and Psoriasis...Many people swear by turmeric in offering some relief to their psoriasis flare-ups. One of the editors here at Nutritional-Supplement-Info suffers from psoriasis personally, and after taking turmeric psoriasis, the symptoms faded greatly over time (after several months). However, this is far from a guarantee that turmeric and psoriasis will alleviate the symptoms of this condition for all sufferers.

Turmeric is a powerful antioxidant, neutralizing free radical damage, and acts as an anti-inflammatory, which may help mitigate arthritis pain. It also harbors anti-carcinogenic properties."

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Injuries - Small Muscles can be Overwhelmed Big Muscles

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:32:48 GMT

By MICHAEL WOODS
Toledo Blade
15-JUN-05

A condition called piriformis syndrome (PS) causes pain in the gluteus maximus (the buttocks) and back of the legs. Those symptoms _ called "sciatica" _ can be confused with more serious medical problems, including bulging or herniated spinal disks that may require surgery.

Some doctors doubt whether PS is real, although it is a familiar topic among athletes, trainers, and physical therapists.

PS, however, is getting a higher profile. The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine, for instance, have added PS to Medline Plus (http://medlineplus.gov/) that great information bank of health information for consumers. And The Arthritis Foundation (www.arthritis.org) now offers tips on how to relieve PS pain.

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