Have you been administering the over the counter cough meds to your toddlers, when they are sick? Well, be careful. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has recently banned the over the counter cold/cough medicines for toddlers.
This is because the..
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How can you make cigarettes safer? Try the FDA way. A new bill or legislation about to pass the senate Wednesday, will regulate the amount of nicotine, tar and other injurious components present in the cigarettes. This should render the...
FDA is trying its best to ensure safety and improve its reputation. So, the laws are getting stricter. This time the pharmaceutical industry will see changes. FDA has announced that the manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary...
FDA has given its approval to a birth control pill ‘Lybrel’ which has the ability to stop monthly menstrual cycle of a woman.
This pill is manufactured by a pharmaceutical company Wyeth. This pill is taken twice a day and it puts a break.
Millions of Americans have been using the highly prescribed drug Avandia, to control their diabetes. Avandia, which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is supposed to control the blood sugar levels of diabetes patients suffering from Type II...
In a bid to ensure that fertilizers don't make their way to the food, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is all set to start testing six food ingredients which are imported from China.
FDA sprang into action after melamine, a chemical used as a...
After the request from Food and Drug Administration (FDA), drug giant Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation of East Hanover, New Jersey has withdrew Zelnorm from the market.
FDA's this decision came after Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company,...
A safety alert was issued over Pfizer Inc.'s antibiotic 'Zyvox' by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A comparative study between three antibiotics found a higher chance of death in seriously ill patients administered by Zyvox.
This is not the...
Giving major relief to the patients, suffering from a rare type of blood disorder called, Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), FDA has given its nodding to a new drug called, Soliris (eculizumab). Interestingly, this is the first drug of its kind...
Recently a human tropical parasitic disease Chagas also called American trypanosomiasis has been a matter of concern in U.S. The situation is especially serious in Los Angeles, with one in 3,800 donors tested positive for Chagas.
Main symptoms of the.
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