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News and Events - 25 Feb 2012
24.02.2012 0:07:15
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Jorge Lamora started drinking cafe cubanos at the age of three in his hometown of Miami. Where caffeine may have stunted the growth of the average child, it seems to have given Jorge an impressive knack for great design. His first project came as a teenager when he “re-worked” the design of a job application to gain underage employment at a drugstore. Since then Jorge, has broadened his skills considerably, creating award-winning work in digital and print for a wide range of clients.
Jorge is currently a senior designer at Cactus, but he's been quite busy freelancing for some fun clients around town like Masterpiece Deli, the Squeaky Bean and others — and now he's created an amazing way to showcase it. Jorge partnered with freelance developer/designer
Drew Dahlman to bring his new portfolio site to life. "I wanted to create something that would serve as a completely updatable portfolio site — minimal but still dynamic — and also something that would be fun for Drew to code," said Lamora. "So we threw a handful of color and type variants into the framework. I also don't love the idea of giving myself a logo — so I gave myself many (and I'll keep adding as I go . The idea being that every time you visit, you'll get a different set of all. Of course, you can still set it up however you like and view away."
With his impressive new site and book of work, today we add Jorge Lamora to our
List of Recommended Designers. Want to be considered as Recommended Talent for what you do by The Egotist?
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23.02.2012 20:14:00
LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters - Britain, which is planning a radical overhaul of its medicine pricing system from 2014, already has some of the lowest prices in Europe, according to a government report on Thursday.
The findings were seized on by pharmaceutical companies as evidence that existing voluntary price-control measures were working well and that the state-run National Health Service (NHS was getting good value for money.
Health minister Andrew Lansley, however, sees room for improvement. From the end of 2013, he aims to switch to a new system of "value-based pricing" - a concept that has so far been only sketchily defined.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI is due to start detailed talks on how the system will work in late summer 2012.
Drug prices are under growing pressure across Europe as governments tackle ballooning budget deficits and firms fear the British changes might lead to direct price controls or further obstacles to launching new therapies.
The current Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS , which companies would be happy to retain, controls the prices of branded drugs by regulating profits they are allowed to make on sales to the NHS.
In its latest report to parliament, the Department of Health confirmed that the PPRS was, by and large, doing its job.
In particular, British medicine prices in 2010 were found to be lower than those in any of 10 other comparator European countries. U.S. prices were on average more than 2-1/2 times more expensive. (
The picture was slightly different, however, when average exchange rates over the last five years were used. On this basis, prices were still significantly lower than in the United States and also lower than in
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Sweden, but not as cheap as in Finland, Spain and France.
Despite low prices, British drugmakers, including GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, argue that patients still struggle to access new medicines, with use of new cancer drugs 33 percent lower than in the rest of Europe.
The increasingly tough environment for drugs is a growing concern for pharmaceutical companies across Europe, some of which have started to relegate the region when it comes to developing new medicines.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said in a report on Wednesday that harsher conditions at home also meant Europe's big pharmaceutical firms had been faster to tap into new emerging markets than their U.S. peers.
24.02.2012 20:00:00
Something weird has happened now that
I'm going to be, OMG, a grandmother -- I've started shopping. Or feeling compelled to shop. It's kind of scary because I do not like to shop. I'm not talking about buying the crib and the bedding, that's a given -- I'm talking about the urge to buy every cute onesie on the face of the earth. How many onesies does a baby need? Apparently Johnny Mac Pippin needs them all. And a whole lot more, to boot.
I blame Michelle, my 22 year old who works at Target. I was FINE until she forced me (literally to come into Target to look at the PERFECT onesie. She was right; it was perfect and I bought it and everything would have been fine. But onesie shopping is addictive and it's also a gateway shopping drug because I haven't stopped shopping or feeling compelled to shop ever since.
I justified the purchase of some onesies by saying "It's on clearance and I have a coupon!", which is fine -- it was and I did and we bought a 6 months size, not a newborn size. And I could not resist the footed sleeper with little frog feet -- Jenn might collect elephants but Michelle Belle loves frogs, and it was CUTE, dammit. Johnny Mac Pippin will look adorable in that sleeper. (And I've heard it is cold in Hawaii at night, right? And there was another footed sleeper that came with a cute little net washing machine bag thing, so tiny socks don't get lost in the wash. Totally adorable and useful, too.
After onesies and footed sleepers, I started buying books which is ridiculous because Johnny Mac Pippin hasn't even made his appearance in the world yet but he's well stocked with children's classics. (Like
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
and
Bread and Jam for Francis
and
Katy No-Pocket
and I could go on, but you get the picture, right? And I bought some
Indestructibles because I've been trying to find the indestructible, washable books my kids had when they were tiny and come up empty. These seemed to be similar and they're very cute -- but I'm still searching for THOSE books my kids had and I guarantee you if I find them, I'll be buying those too. I haven't bought the
BabyLit board books, yet, and I did stop myself from purchasing a book that will be perfect for
Johnny Mac Pippin when he's 10, I do have some self-control.
But not much.
We were at O'Hare last week, picking up Michelle and waiting for her luggage to come around on the carousel. As we stared at the opening of the baggage claim belt, a box came out. I peered at it. I peered at it some more. I probably said "hmmm" out loud and I felt TW glaring at me. I looked away from the box and into her eyes and she said, "No. No. Johnny Mac Pippin does not need a scooter." Which is true, he doesn't -- not right now. However, some day soon, he will definitely need a scooter and that one looked interesting. I must research scooters, so I'm ready to buy just the right one for Johnny Mac Pippin.
But then again, I haven't bought a single toy or stuffed animal -- but I'm on the look out for the perfect Kangaroo with Joey, have you seen one?
And then, last night, Jenn sent me a text with a picture of a cute
sailor suit onesie that she was looking for -- I found it and planned to buy it which led me to think about baby shoes. Johnny Mac Pippin would need some cute shoes with that onesie and I planned to surf baby shoes today. Good thing I didn't buy that onesie, Jenn bought it while I was asleep -- she also found
infant Sambas (just like his dad wears while I was asleep (damn her, I wanted to buy them!
I tried making some
Pinterest
boards to help control the urge to shop, but pinning cute things isn't quite the same thing as buying cute things. Pinning has been useful in other ways though. I'm trying to decide which cloth diapers to send and because cloth diapers have changed an awful lot since I had babies, I posted a couple of options and asked which were better. I got some feedback. That's good, Johnny Mac Pippin needs the BEST cloth diapers. Pinning has also kept me from taking a wee detour into the brand new
baby super center, Wonder, that opened by our house last fall. I'm afraid of what might happen if I go into that store.
Onesies are a gateway shopping drug. Someone take away my credit card -- wait, don't take it away yet. Tell me what the smartest, most awesome little boy in the world NEEDS his grandmother to buy for him. (Oh, and my daughter and son-in-law, the parents -- do they need any of those new baby care gadgets?
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23.02.2012 12:24:00
We Love Pharma, courtesy of CDM Worldwide
The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad rap. To listen to the critics you’d think pharmaceutical companies are in the same sleazy category as oil, finance and tobacco companies. But pharmaceutical companies invent life-saving medications, not to mention countless other psychoactive products that many of us enjoy on a recreational basis. Pharmaceutical companies get blamed for fraud, kickbacks, and research deaths, but they never get the credit for oxycontin.
That is why I was thrilled to see that GlaxoSmithKline is sponsoring the prize for the
British Medical Journal
‘s annual
Research Paper of the Year. Sure, the pharma-bashers will whine like infants at the
BMJ’
s decision to brand a medical research prize with the name of multinational drug company, just as they’re whining about an American editor’s decision to re-locate a leading bioethics journal to the Texas headquarters of a
stem cell tourism clinic. These people just don’t get it. This is not about propaganda or corruption. It is about developing innovative medications for diseases that we didn’t even know existed.
In that spirit, my nomination for the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK Research Paper of the Year goes to a ground-breaking article about GSK’s very own antidepressant, Paxil, which was published in the
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
. The title of the article is “Efficacy of Paroxetine in the Treatment of Adolescent Major Depression,” but seasoned pharma-watchers know it better as
Study 329. The data behind Study 329 showed that Paxil didn’t actually work in adolescents – that, in fact, it was
no better than a sugar pill. However, as any marketer understands, bad data cannot be allowed to interfere with a good paper. By the time Study 329 appeared in print, GSK had used the magic of biostatistics to transform the raw data into a gleaming advertisement for Paxil. As a result, when FDA eventually decided that Paxil had a few minor side-effects,
such as suicide, Study 329 had already done its work: getting a GSK product into the hands of troubled teenagers. And wait, here’s the beauty part: although the published version of Study 329 was “authored” by leading academic psychiatrists, it was actually
written by a GSK ghostwriter.
Of course, the pharma-bashers have been complaining about Study 329 for years. Some of them even want the journal to retract it. The lead “author” who signed the paper, Martin Keller of Brown University, has been
beaten up by the Senate Finance Committee,
harassed by the New York attorney general, and vilified in the press, all because he put his name on a ghosted article and forgot to report
half a million dollars in pharmaceutical income. To which I say: stand strong, GSK. Ignore the naysayers and the nitpickers. It’s about time you gave these good people some public recognition. Yes, it’s true that Study 329 is eleven years old, but you’re paying the BMJ over $47,000 to
sponsor this prize. Surely they can bend the rules, just this once.
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Avant-garde publisher who challenged the Lady Chatterley ban
Barney Rosset, who has died aged 89, was the most influential avant-garde publisher of the 20th century. He was also one of the boldest, in his willingness to question the laws governing censorship. His decision, as head of Grove Press, to challenge the ban on DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1959 led to the novel being published legally in the US for the first time, a year before the British edition. Having won the battle, Rosset immediately set about bringing Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to American bookbuyers. Another trial involved William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.
Among the first authors to be signed by Grove was Samuel Beckett, in 1953. As well as supplying the publisher with novels and plays that would sell in great numbers, Beckett also provided a moral example: "I hope you realise what you are letting yourself in for," he wrote in reply to Rosset's expression of interest. His novels had proved unsaleable, his plays unperformable. All were difficult in ways "which I am not at all disposed to mitigate". The same intransigence emanated from Miller.
Rosset was born in Chicago, the son of a banker whose bequest to his errant son was to prove instrumental in the shaping of modern literature. Having graduated from the University of Chicago, Rosset served in the US Army Signal Corps. Afterwards, using $250,000 of family money, he made a feature film, Strange Victory (1948 , which was a commercial flop.
A more economical investment was Grove Press, which he bought for $3,000 in 1951. For the first two years, he specialised in reprints before moving on to literature in translation. At the same time as bringing Beckett to Grove – named for the firm's original address in Grove Street, Greenwich Village – Rosset signed Jean Genet and Eugene Ionesco. Others whose work appeared under the imprint include the poets Frank O'Hara and LeRoi Jones, the playwright David Mamet and the novelists John Rechy, Alexander Trocchi,
Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras. Together, they formed if not a school, then a trademark that was perfectly matched to the anti-authoritarianism of the epoch.
The brand reflected Rosset's personality. His first publishing venture was a newsletter called Anti-Everything. He said he was attracted to Miller's Tropic books not so much for their literary quality, nor the erotic content, but because they were "anti-American and anti-conformity". Like the French publisher Maurice Girodias, whose Olympia Press was an abundant supplier to Grove (Miller, Beckett, Genet, Trocchi and Burroughs were all first published there , Rosset liked the risque element – sex was anti-conformity, too – but the enduring Grove titles are those that were artistically daring at the same time.
Publishers have always loved a banned book. Rosset stood apart from his peers not only in his willingness to challenge prohibitions, but in being able to fund the action. In his posthumous memoir, The Tender Hour of Twilight, published in early 2012, Rosset's second-in-command, Richard Seaver, wrote: "Everyone knew that Barney was rich, but never knew to what degree." At one stage, he sued his father over the restrictions imposed on his inheritance. "And to the consternation of all," Seaver wrote, "he won."
Seaver joined the firm in 1959 at the time of the Lady Chatterley trial. ("Why not join the fun?" Rosset asked him. In his memoir, he outlined the simple strategy for publishing forbidden books: print them, ask shops to take them (often a vain effort , then wait for the law to call. When readers could get to the books, they sold in huge quantities, but the tolls were expensive. Seaver called the chapter on Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lawyers".
Literature was not Rosset's only interest. Grove also published film scripts, and commissioned several of its leading authors to write original screenplays, which were then produced on television. Under this scheme, Beckett wrote Film (1965 , starring Buster Keaton. Duras's Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959 and Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad (1961 were cult films that became cult Grove Press paperbacks. The house magazine at Grove Press, Evergreen Review, contained photography, graphics, screen-stills and jazz criticism. Published in the same format as a floppy Grove paperback, it still seems like the essential literary magazine of the time.
Several events at the end of the 60s conspired to bring Grove Press down from its peak. The first was the curse of many successful businesses – overreach. From 20 or so employees in its heyday, Grove was employing 150 by the end of the decade. Having never lost a yearning for the screen, Rosset acquired a cinema and bought films to show in it. The only commercially successful one was I Am Curious (Yellow (1967 , which landed the Grove team in court again, followed by I Am Curious (Blue (1968 , which was neither a hit nor a profitable scandal. At around the same time, the firm moved from its cramped but cosy premises in the Village to a set of plush, custom-built offices. Meanwhile, Grove's early roster of Beats, drop-outs, drug experimenters, sexual outlaws and anarchic playwrights could only gaze upwards and wonder.
Another destabilising force was the changing nature of sexual freedom. Male-directed free love, incorporated in the works of Miller, was being challenged by the imperatives of women's lib. Preoccupied with legal matters and the shapely forms of Grove secretaries, which turn up with amusing frequency in Seaver's memoirs, the firm's leading players had failed to notice. In 1970 Grove was unionised behind the bosses' backs and suffered occupations by radical feminists. The heady world in which art and love joined hands to challenge the status quo was never to be the same.
Rosset retained independence until 1985, when he sold out to George Weidenfeld and Ann Getty, on the understanding that he would remain in charge. He departed within a year. The name now survives as part of the publisher Grove-Atlantic. Later adventures included Blue Moon books, which published a range of erotica (as well as a late work, Stirrings Still, by the ever-loyal Beckett , and an online version of Evergreen Review.
In 1949 Rosset married the abstract-expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, while the pair were resident in Europe. Mitchell wanted to return to the excitement of New York. "She said, 'Who's going to carry my paintings – they're big!' I said, 'I will, but only if you marry me.' Big mistake! She said okay." He complained that her family never accepted him. "To them, I was a Jew. My Irish-Catholic half didn't count." The marriage lasted three years. In 1953 he married Loly Eckert, a sales manager at Grove, and the couple had a son, Peter. Three subsequent marriages produced three more children: a son, Beckett, and two daughters, Tansey and Chantal. Rosset's children and his fifth wife, Astrid Myers, survive him.
• Barney Lee Rosset, publisher, born 28 May 1922; died 21 February 2012
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News and Events - 23 Feb 2012
21.02.2012 11:00:00
The substitution of brand-name antiepileptic drugs with cheaper generic equivalents has been an ongoing point of contention among doctors, federal officials and people with epilepsy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims generic antiepileptic drugs have the same dosage, purity and strength as their brand-name counterparts and the two are interchangeable...
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Continuing her charge against the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY sent a letter late last week to more than 60 of the leading fast food companies, meat producers, and grocery stories asking them to release details on their antibiotic use policies.
Slaughter specically asked the companies to breakdown what percentage of the food they sell is raised "without any antibiotics," raised with antibiotics only for "therapeutic reasons," or raised with "routine use of antibiotics" -- information that consumers often have no way of knowing. The list of companies that received the letter was varied, including: Burger King, Cargill, YUM! Brands, Costco, Bon Appetit Management Company, Kraft, McDonald's and Whole Foods.
"Very simply, consumers have a right to know what's in their food," said Slaughter. "It's like that old commercial, 'where's the beef?' We just want to know, 'what's in the beef?' The US is facing a growing public health crisis in the form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and information about how these companies are contributing to its rise or resolution should be available to consumers."
Antibiotic-resistance is not just an issue that rallies sustainable agriculture advocates -- who have long argued against drug use in food animal production -- the issue is increasingly tied to foodborne illness outbreak headlines.
Last year, the United States had the most outbreaks ever of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella tied to meat and poultry, according to Slaughter's office. Last summer, the largest Class I meat recall on record was initiated after Cargill ground turkey was linked to a nationwide drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak tied to 136 illnesses and one death.
"Decades of research has shown that the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to swine, cows, and chickens harms human health by contributing to diseases that fail drug treatment," the letter continued. "A National Academy of Sciences report stated that 'a decrease in the inappropriate use of antimicrobials in human medicine is not enough [to slow the increase in antibiotic resistance]. Substantial efforts must be made to decrease inappropriate misuse in animals and agriculture as well."
The most recent estimates show around 80 percent of all antibiotics sold annually are used in food animal production.
The only microbiologist serving in Congress, Slaughter challenged companies to tout examples of lessening antibiotic use.
"There are some who would have us believe that we must pump our food up with antibiotics to keep prices low and affordable," she said. "But the food industry has proven success stories and leaders who understand the benefits that come from raising and serving antibiotic-free meat. It is not incompatible for us to have healthy and affordable food."
The
letter asks companies to respond in detail to Congresswoman Slaughter's office by June 15.
Slaughter specically asked the companies to breakdown what percentage of the food they sell is raised "without any antibiotics," raised with antibiotics only for "therapeutic reasons," or raised with "routine use of antibiotics" -- information that consumers often have no way of knowing. The list of companies that received the letter was varied, including: Burger King, Cargill, YUM! Brands, Costco, Bon Appetit Management Company, Kraft, McDonald's and Whole Foods.
"Very simply, consumers have a right to know what's in their food," said Slaughter. "It's like that old commercial, 'where's the beef?' We just want to know, 'what's in the beef?' The US is facing a growing public health crisis in the form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and information about how these companies are contributing to its rise or resolution should be available to consumers."
Antibiotic-resistance is not just an issue that rallies sustainable agriculture advocates -- who have long argued against drug use in food animal production -- the issue is increasingly tied to foodborne illness outbreak headlines.
Last year, the United States had the most outbreaks ever of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella tied to meat and poultry, according to Slaughter's office. Last summer, the largest Class I meat recall on record was initiated after Cargill ground turkey was linked to a nationwide drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak tied to 136 illnesses and one death.
"Decades of research has shown that the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to swine, cows, and chickens harms human health by contributing to diseases that fail drug treatment," the letter continued. "A National Academy of Sciences report stated that 'a decrease in the inappropriate use of antimicrobials in human medicine is not enough [to slow the increase in antibiotic resistance]. Substantial efforts must be made to decrease inappropriate misuse in animals and agriculture as well."
The most recent estimates show around 80 percent of all antibiotics sold annually are used in food animal production.
The only microbiologist serving in Congress, Slaughter challenged companies to tout examples of lessening antibiotic use.
"There are some who would have us believe that we must pump our food up with antibiotics to keep prices low and affordable," she said. "But the food industry has proven success stories and leaders who understand the benefits that come from raising and serving antibiotic-free meat. It is not incompatible for us to have healthy and affordable food."
The
letter asks companies to respond in detail to Congresswoman Slaughter's office by June 15.
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17.02.2012 8:00:00
Brand and generic epilepsy drugs are equally safe and effective; but switching from a brand-name antiepileptic drug to a generic one could increase some individuals' chances of having a seizure, according to a comprehensive research review conducted by pharmacists and doctors at the University of Connecticut and Hartford Hospital.
20.02.2012 18:25:00
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19.02.2012 20:40:40
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
19.02.2012 18:54:01
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
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18.02.2012 1:54:17
When a slew of Whitney Houston's high-profile friends and family members pay their respects at a private funeral service at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ Saturday, there could be some underlying tension between Houston's relatives and Bobby Brown, the late star's ex-husband.
"There are family members who felt Bobby drove Whitney into drugs," one source tells
Us Weekly. "But now Bobby is clean and Whitney has unfortunately passed. So there's resentment."
PHOTOS: Whitney and Bobby's family album
Despite a rehab stint in May 2011 for drugs and alcohol, Houston, 48, was "battling her addictions until the end," a source tells Us of the Grammy winner, who was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton last Saturday. In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston said she went from being a "light" drug user to a "heavy" one over the course of her 15 year marriage to Brown, 43. "I wasn't getting high by myself. It was me and him together."
PHOTOS: Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
The "Saving All My Love for You" singer even admitted to freebasing cocaine with her husband, who is the father to their 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
Despite that rough history, the source says, "he and Whitney had a solid relationship even with the separation and divorce."
And contrary to rumors that Houston's family had prevented Brown from seeing Bobbi Kristina following Houston's death, "He was involved in choices for Bobbi, so that seems farfetched that they were keeping her from him. He has seen his daughter."
VIDEO: Whitney's ups and downs
As he preps for his ex's funeral (to be attended by Kevin Costner, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Brandy and brother Ray J, mentor Clive Davis, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn and others , "Bobby is very shaken up," the source says.
In concert with band New Edition in Maryland Thursday night, Brown paid another onstage tribute to Houston.
"I'd like to say thank you for your prayers ... I'd like to say thank you. Period. I'm gonna throw two up for Whitney," he told the crowd. "That's my love. Life is life. You have to move on sometimes. I love her like I love God."
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17.02.2012 10:47:00
AstraZeneca has unveiled its "first-ever direct-to-patient programme", which will see the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker offer its breast cancer drug Arimidex to US patients for $40 a month.
Under the scheme, patients with a valid prescription for Arimidex (anastrozole or a generic of the aromatase inhibitor (it went off-patent in the USA in the middle of 2010 can have the branded version delivered directly to their home by pharmacy benefit management company Express Scripts. AstraZeneca says that "calls from patients seeking information on how to obtain the brand Arimidex more affordably helped spur creation of the direct-to-patient programme".
The company adds that upon further research, it felt that eligible patients could realise "significant cost savings through Arimidex Direct". However, AstraZeneca notes that "prescription insurance coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid, cannot be used for any type of reimbursement", so the scheme only applies to patients who pay out of their own pockets.
At $40 a month, the price is above the normal $10 co-payment for generic anastrozole, but well below what insured patients could pay for the branded version - the price of 30 tablets of Arimidex at drugstore.com is listed at $458.97.
17.02.2012 8:00:00
(University of Connecticut Brand and generic epilepsy drugs are equally safe and effective; but switching from a brand-name antiepileptic drug to a generic one could increase some individuals' chances of having a seizure, according to a comprehensive research review conducted by pharmacists and doctors at the University of Connecticut and Hartford Hospital.
16.02.2012 17:02:29
Patients with a valid prescription would get the medication delivered directly to their home
WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE --Feb 16, 2012 - AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN today announced its first-ever direct-to-patient program offering patients...
18.02.2012 1:42:35
SHANGHAI & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE --Feb 17, 2012 - Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE and Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical (SSE Code: 600267 , a leading pharmaceutical company in China, today signed a framework agreement, advancing their previously...
18.02.2012 20:52:15
Drug name: Sildenafil super active Sildenafil The commercial name of the medication may differ from the brand one. Sildenafil super active manufactured by Dharam Distributors is available under commercial name Sildigra.
18.02.2012 20:52:15
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17.02.2012 3:29:57
A St. Louis-area cancer doctor with offices in southwestern Illinois has pleaded guilty in Missouri to a federal misdemeanor linked to his alleged giving of misbranded, unapproved chemotherapy drugs from overseas to his patients.
18.02.2012 20:52:15
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18.02.2012 20:52:15
Drug name: Sildenafil professional Sildenafil The commercial name of the medication may differ from the brand one. Sildenafil professional manufactured by RSM Enterprise is available under commercial name Sildigra Prof.
2012-02-17 09:14:36
A consumer alert for a brand of electronic toothbrush found to chip teeth, cut gums and wreak havoc on your face was announced by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA on Thursday. The toothbrush in question: Arm & Hammer and Crest (pre-2009 Spinbrush. Injuries have been reported to the teeth, gums and eyes because of the toothbrush breaking. There also has been cases of choking due to broken pieces. An FDA consumer safety officer said reports indicate that parts of the toothbrush have broken off during use, causing them to be “released into the mouth with great speed, causing broken teeth and presenting a choking hazard.” The FDA said the safety alert is issued on the following Spinbrush models: Spinbrush ProClean, Spinbrush ProClean Recharge, Spinbrush Pro Whitening, Spinbrush SONIC Recharge, Spinbrush Swirl, Spinbrush Classic Clean, and Spinbrush for Kids. Spinbrush models for adults have a removable brush head for easy replacement. However, it is possible for the brush head to pop off during use, exposing metal pieces that can cause mouth and facial damage. The kids model does not have a removable head, however, it has also caused problems, including cut lips, burns from the batteries, and brush bristles that have fallen off and lodged in a child’s tonsils. Dr. Susan Runner, branch chief for Dental Devices in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said: “The hazards that have been reported are potentially very serious, and parents should be aware of helping young children with tooth brushing both for safety reasons and for assuring adequacy of brushing.” The FDA last year issued a warning to Church & Dwight Co. Inc., maker of the Spinbrush, when it found numerous consumer complaints about the product. The complaints had not been reported to the agency, as required. Following the FDA warning, the manufacturer made improvements to the product, adding labels to caution consumers about changing the brush head every three months; adding bristles that changed color to help remind consumers to change the brush heads; and issued a safety notice in TV and print ads warning of the dangers of not replacing the brush heads after three months’ use or when they become damaged or loose. The new safety alert by the FDA advises parents, caregivers and consumers to inspect their Spinbrush before each use to make sure the brush head is connected tightly to the handle. If the brush head or bristles are loose or damaged, the FDA says the toothbrush should not be used and the issue should be reported to Church & Dwight Co. at 1-800-352-3384 or 1-800-561-0752. The FDA is also cautioning Spinbrush users to never bite down on the brush head while using brushing and to follow all instructions and guidelines for the product. It also recommends anyone suffering an injury from the product to contact the FDA’s Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program by calling 1-800-332-1088 or at
www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch. --- Image 2: Two models of the Spinbrush are shown here. To help prevent injury, inspect the Spinbrush for damage or loose bristles before each use, and always supervise children and adults who may need assistance when using it.--- On the Net:
www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch. --- Image 2: Two models of the Spinbrush are shown here. To help prevent injury, inspect the Spinbrush for damage or loose bristles before each use, and always supervise children and adults who may need assistance when using it.--- On the Net:
18.02.2012 15:54:46
Are you making allowance for a vasectomy reversal? Thousands of men endure vasectomy each year as a eternal means of birth control, even so for some of these men living brings unexpected turns, which leads them to alteration their mind. On some, there is a strong prurience to would rather another newborn a handful years later. On others, there may be a tragic erosion of a child. Quest of profuse men, a modern amalgamation brings a changed break repayment for creating a family. Regardless of the circumstances, a vasectomy can be reversed.
When a gentleman's gentleman
vipra online consents to withstand a vasectomy, he is almost always instructed that the scheme should be considered to be abiding and irreversible. This is an fitting admonishment, because a vasectomy nullification is not 100% guaranteed to masterpiece, and it is a significantly more complex operation than a vasectomy. So, before undergoing a vasectomy, a man should be as unswerving as possible that he is finished having children. Nonetheless, unprejudiced the most insightful, considerate purposefulness can at long last prove wrong. When that outcome is a vasectomy, a geezer may at rest change his mind.
What is a vasectomy?
To understand the vasectomy reversal, it is important to allow the vasectomy. A vasectomy is the surgical assassination of a pocket-sized piece of the vas deferens. The vas deferens is the extended strict sturdy tube through which sperm travelling from the testicle to the urethra. It feels like a piece of undercooked spaghetti in each side of the scrotum. The sperm are produced in the testicle, and then they retreat visible the cork of the testicle and into the epididymis. The epididymis is a exceptionally slight, rigorously panty hose coiled tubule, which runs along the undeveloped of the testicle from peak to bottom.
It then turns a corner, heading disregard north for the pelvis, and becomes the thicker, straighter vas deferens. During ejaculation, the burly walls of the vas deferens tube contract to push the sperm up to the urethra of the prostate. In the urethra, the sperm are then joined by way of fluids from the prostate and then ejaculated out of the penis.
When a vasectomy is performed, the doctor feels on these "pieces of spaghetti" and surgically removes a shallow divide of vas deferens from each side. The offend ends are then clipped, sutured or cauterized. Suddenly, the sperm can belong together no farther than this strange point of blockage.
So what happens to all the sperm?
What most men don't produce is that aeons ago the vasectomy is performed, sperm production does not stop! Till the cows come home! To women, men provide their gametes (sperm as far as something their undivided life. A vasectomy does not dam sperm motion, rather it simply blocks the contestant of sperm into the urethra. Like other cells, the blocked sperm are done shivered down via the body and reabsorbed. Brand-new sperm are continually being produced. A uncertain amount of pressure can found up in the tubes behind the vasectomy scar. In some cases, so much constraints builds up that the infinitesimal tubule of the epididymis can rupture. This is commonly referred to as an epididymal "expand out." If this happens, the situation of the magnify into the open develops scar accumulation, and this in actuality becomes the unique up of blockage to the sperm. This is neither harassing or hazardous, but it is substantive in that on a vasectomy cancellation to be successful, it be obliged be performed in such a nature that bypasses this chic unchanging of blockage at the epididymal thump out site.
When a gentleman's gentleman
vipra online consents to withstand a vasectomy, he is almost always instructed that the scheme should be considered to be abiding and irreversible. This is an fitting admonishment, because a vasectomy nullification is not 100% guaranteed to masterpiece, and it is a significantly more complex operation than a vasectomy. So, before undergoing a vasectomy, a man should be as unswerving as possible that he is finished having children. Nonetheless, unprejudiced the most insightful, considerate purposefulness can at long last prove wrong. When that outcome is a vasectomy, a geezer may at rest change his mind.
What is a vasectomy?
To understand the vasectomy reversal, it is important to allow the vasectomy. A vasectomy is the surgical assassination of a pocket-sized piece of the vas deferens. The vas deferens is the extended strict sturdy tube through which sperm travelling from the testicle to the urethra. It feels like a piece of undercooked spaghetti in each side of the scrotum. The sperm are produced in the testicle, and then they retreat visible the cork of the testicle and into the epididymis. The epididymis is a exceptionally slight, rigorously panty hose coiled tubule, which runs along the undeveloped of the testicle from peak to bottom.
It then turns a corner, heading disregard north for the pelvis, and becomes the thicker, straighter vas deferens. During ejaculation, the burly walls of the vas deferens tube contract to push the sperm up to the urethra of the prostate. In the urethra, the sperm are then joined by way of fluids from the prostate and then ejaculated out of the penis.
When a vasectomy is performed, the doctor feels on these "pieces of spaghetti" and surgically removes a shallow divide of vas deferens from each side. The offend ends are then clipped, sutured or cauterized. Suddenly, the sperm can belong together no farther than this strange point of blockage.
So what happens to all the sperm?
What most men don't produce is that aeons ago the vasectomy is performed, sperm production does not stop! Till the cows come home! To women, men provide their gametes (sperm as far as something their undivided life. A vasectomy does not dam sperm motion, rather it simply blocks the contestant of sperm into the urethra. Like other cells, the blocked sperm are done shivered down via the body and reabsorbed. Brand-new sperm are continually being produced. A uncertain amount of pressure can found up in the tubes behind the vasectomy scar. In some cases, so much constraints builds up that the infinitesimal tubule of the epididymis can rupture. This is commonly referred to as an epididymal "expand out." If this happens, the situation of the magnify into the open develops scar accumulation, and this in actuality becomes the unique up of blockage to the sperm. This is neither harassing or hazardous, but it is substantive in that on a vasectomy cancellation to be successful, it be obliged be performed in such a nature that bypasses this chic unchanging of blockage at the epididymal thump out site.
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