Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), vigorously objects to the characterization of company practices in a New York Times article based upon selective documents illegally leaked by plaintiffs’ lawyers.
The Royal Society of Medicine, the UK?s largest provider of continuing medical education, has today published a new guide aimed at students and junior doctors.
Following an investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), a man from Glasgow yesterday (14.12.06) received a six months restriction of liberty order at Glasgow Sheriff Court for illegally selling unlicensed medicines to treat erectile dysfunction.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has identified a safety problem with certain blood glucose meters which under certain conditions display the wrong units of measurement. This could result in an insulin overdose and hypoglycaemic coma.
With violent crime rates reaching a 15 year record high and most prisoners testing positive for drugs, the new Congress must expand drug treatment in prisons, said Bob Weiner, former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Hospital patients define medical errors much more broadly than the traditional clinical definitions of medical errors. The patient definition of medical errors includes communication problems, responsiveness and falls, according to a new study published in the January 2007 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
The joint project by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) to further understanding of mortality following MRSA infection, has reported on the progress made in establishing robust methods for both the linkage and investigation of deaths in its first year [1]. The two year project commenced in August 2005 with funding from the Department of Health [2].
Eight cases of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) positive community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) have been identified among individuals in a hospital and their close household contacts in the West Midlands. Four individuals developed an infection, two of whom died.
Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today warned protesting resident doctors of AIIMS that they may face action if they don’t call off the stir.
A diagnostic device that resembles a mammography unit can detect breast tumors as tiny as one-fifth of an inch in diameter, which may make it a valuable complementary imaging technique to mammography, say researchers at Mayo Clinic, who helped develop the technology along with industry collaborators Gamma Medica and GE Healthcare.