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Find ways to keep children off drugs The report in 999 said many young people are initially misled into taking drugs such as tramadol. Later, teenagers and children are offered stronger prescription medicines. That is all too plausible. Still, the findings are from a survey of an … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Man jailed four years for taking drugs despite rehab claims Anti-narcotics officers who raided his flat on January 22 found a number of other controlled medications including Tramadol, but no charges over these were raised after the man produced verified prescriptions for them. He claimed that the tablet the … Full News here – Read [...]

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Sale of abortion drugs popular among doctors Other drugs included in the list are dextropropoxyphene, pentazocine, codeine, nitrazepam (tranquilizers), sildenafil and tadalafil (sexual stimulants). The drug control department, following the findings, has made it mandatory that the wholesalers in … Full News here – Read more on Times of India

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Custom officer guilty of stealing banned drugs The Dubai Criminal Court awarded a 30-year-old Emirati customs inspector a jail term after being convicted of stealing and possessing 200 tramadol tablets alloted to be destroyed. Once pronounced guilty, the Court also ordered WMA to pay Dh4,000 the … Full News here – Read more on Emirates [...]

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Free Diabetes Drugs and Supplies Considered Getting free diabetes drugs and supplies sounds like a great deal for patients. However, the ultimate payoff is whether people with diabetes improve or have better diabetes management when price barriers are removed. Here's what the study's authors … Full News here – Read more on eMaxHealth

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Drugs control dept cracks down on sale of aphrodisiacs "Sildenafil citrate is a schedule H medicine that should be given only under prescription. The drug was sold over-the-counter in the interior areas of Kozhikode and Malappuram using false prescriptions. We also noticed that the same doctors repeatedly … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Medical: Counterfeit drugs are dangerous, even in U.S. Counterfeiting in developed nations is more likely to involve drugs that are costly or in particular demand; products for erectile dysfunction, high cholesterol, hypertension, cancer and psychiatric conditions have often turned up. Ineffective … Full News here – Read more on KERO-TV 23

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Pharmacy drugs access scheme to be rolled out to 12500 pharmacies Pulse has learnt the scheme will go ahead from the 1 February, including 13 drugs, such as azythromicin, sildenafil, the emergency contraception pill, anti-malarials, salbutamol and calcipotriol cream. A spokesperson from the NPA said: 'The scheme will … Full News here – Read more [...]

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Sales of pain drugs "to rise 1.8%/year to 2026" In contrast, European physicians are more likely to prescribe the dual-acting opioid analgesic tramadol to a greater percentage of their acute pain patients than their colleagues in the US and Japan, while Japanese physicians more frequently rely on … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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How Effective Are Customized Asthma Drugs For Children? Asthma A recent news piece talked about developing `personalised' asthma drugs" for asthma patients as there are fears that the existing treatments could actually be really bad for them. The claim was more or less influenced by a recent study which … Full News here – Read [...]

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Duo detained for crafty plot to hide drugs inside cheese “We set a trap for the 46-year-old Arab jobless suspect and caught him in possession of 1,957 tramadol pills. We also found pieces of hashish and heroin hidden in clever way in sweet boxes,” said the head of the anti-narcotics department, General Abdul … Full [...]

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Gold particles could deliver cancer drugs The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is expected to announce this week that its oncology unit in Waltham is collaborating with a Maryland company to develop an innovative cancer therapy. The proposed treatment involves delivering powerful cancer drugs … Full News here – Read more on Boston Globe

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Game changer for arthritis and anti-fibrosis drugs? In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made, University of Utah medical researchers have identified a way to treat inflammation while potentially minimizing a serious side effect … Full News here – Read more on ScienceBlog.com (blog)

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This story gives you the basic information about asthma that you need to know to grow out of asthma. It explains what is the difference between the breathing of people with asthma and those without asthma growoutofasthma.com Please like and share this if you like it. Some people are asking if having no asthma symptoms [...]

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Sexual Health: Antihypertensive drugs can cause sexual dysfunction Phosphodiesterase (PDE)-5 inhibitors like Sildenafil (Viagra) are effective at treating erectile dysfunction in patients with hypertension and can be safely used even when multidrug therapies are used. The authors warns "Precautions need to be taken … Full News here – Read more on Food Consumer

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