Los Angeles: It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young - investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine cabinet. That effort is well under way in the death of Whitney Houston, with investigators saying Wednesday they have subpoenaed records from the singer's doctors and pharmacies who dispensed medication found in her hotel room. The inquiries are routine in virtually all death investigations, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed...
12:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Lahore: The number of people who died after taking spurious drugs supplied by a state-run hospital in Pakistan's Punjab province has touched 100 even as scores more continue to be treated in hospitals across the province, officials said on Thursday. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who also holds the health portfolio, on Wednesday acknowledged that drugs supplied by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology had caused the deaths of 100 patients. Earlier,...
08:19 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has labelled a hospital's claims of a fatal tuberculosis strain as premature. The question is whether the government is downplaying the disease. 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day and 20 per cent of the total TB deaths in the world take place in the country. The picture seems to be getting darker with reports that show 12 cases of the killer, totally drug resistant TB....
10:21 AM, Jan 20, 2012
From 99 remedies 200 years ago to more than 5000 today, the homeopathy industry is growing at 30 per cent annually. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday told the central government that the prices of medicines should not rise further. "Bring it down, don't escalate it in the name of policy," the court said. "It should go down, not go up," said the apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya. The bench said that the prices of medicines and lab tests were already too high and...
11:03 AM, Nov 18, 2011
London: If you thought herbal supplements were safe by virtue of being 'natural,' then you could be wrong. They do have side effects, says a new research. Commonly used remedies like St John's wort, Asian ginseng, Echinacea, garlic and Ginkgo are as strong as their allopathic counterparts. Many of them do not list key information required for safe use, reports the journal BMC Medicine. For instance, St John's wort can...
01:52 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New York: Women seeking relief for menopause symptoms may have suffered a setback after a U.S. study found that taking soy supplements may not help ease menopause symptoms or prevent the bone changes that start at that time of life. Women have been without a clear go-to treatment for menopause since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study of hormone therapy reported heart and cancer risks with estrogen and progestin use...
12:19 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research is now taking up a large scale research to study if probiotics can be an used as an alternative medicine for women and children's health. The Rs 20.6 million industry in India, has been quite a rage since probiotic products hit store shelves five years ago. One can pick from curd (already a natural probiotic product), tofu, milk, even get their ice-cream...
09:54 AM, Aug 08, 2011
London: A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has revealed how ancient physicians concocted medicines to treat sailors for dysentery and other ailments, a media report said Sunday. The kit contains pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, carrots, and chestnuts and was so well sealed that they miraculously survived being under water for over two millennia, The Sunday Telegraph reported. All ingredients were referred...
11:26 AM, Jul 11, 2011
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It seems the government's days of Chakrasana are over. The Congress-led UPA that rushed several senior ministers to meet Ramdev at the airport only a ...
02:32 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev after becoming an enemy of MNCs is now a crusader against corruption, but there's a whole other side to the Yoga Guru. Ramdev has made some pretty striking statements in the past. Baba Ramdev had earlier taken a stand against cold drinks saying, "Drinking cold drinks cause cancer, drinking cold drinks can also lead to impotency, drinking cold drinks causes osteoporosis, drinking cold drinks can also...
09:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Muzaffarpur: A Vigilance court in Bihar on Saturday acquitted Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SK Modi for alleged irregularities in the purchase of medicines of Rs 8 crore for cattle between January 15 to January 30, 2008. Special Vigilance Judge (Muzaffarpur) Arun Kumar Singh exonerated Modi of all the charges in connection with the case. Singh also ordered the state vigilance bureau to register FIRs against District Animal Husbandry Officer (DAHO)...
04:55 PM, May 28, 2011
London: A ban on the sale of Ayurvedic and other herbal medicines will take effect across Europe from May 1 following a European Union directive introduced as a response to growing concern over adverse effects of such alternative medicines. Users and promoters of such medicines have called the EU directive called The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, 2004/24/EC, "discriminatory and disproportionate". Ayurvedic and traditional herbal medicines will need to licensed...
05:56 PM, Feb 03, 2011
From India's first indigenous Swine flu vaccine to a superbug named after India, catch the top health news of 2010. ...
12:02 PM, Dec 31, 2010
London: Giving alternative treatments such as homeopathic remedies instead of conventional medicines to children may have deadly side effects in rare instances, a new analysis says. Australian researchers monitored reports from pediatricians in Australia from 2001 to 2003 looking for suspected side effects from alternative medicines like herbal treatments, vitamin supplements or naturopathic pills. They found 39 reports of side effects including four deaths. The study published online on Thursday...
10:14 AM, Dec 23, 2010
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