Social stigma and feeling lifeless and/or alienated from one’s peers are some of the reasons why children and adolescents stop taking prescription stimulant medications used to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study published in the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing.
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has sought information regarding complaints of irregularities committed by Registrar of the AIIMS, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said today.
In a move to firmly deal with manufacturers of counterfeit drugs, Government today said it is amending the law to provide stricter penalties including life imprisonment to offenders and making all drug-related offences congnisable and non-bailable.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is providing an update to its notifications on October 13, and October 23, 2006, alerting the public to counterfeit blood glucose test strips being sold in the US for use with various models of LifeScan, Inc., One Touch Brand Blood Glucose Monitors. These test strips are used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose. Today?s update includes an additional lot number that is being distributed, along with a description of how to identify the new lot.
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) issued this statement today following a National Institutes of Health (NIH) decision to end two clinical trials of adult male circumcision in Uganda and Kenya. The NIH’s Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB), reviewing interim data, found that medically performed circumcision significantly protected men in the trial from HIV infection.
NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson today set out the priorities for the NHS over the next year, with a greater role for local NHS staff to decide and deliver on local health and healthcare improvement targets.
Health Minister Lord Warner today confirmed that over 18,000 additional specialty training opportunities will be available in England in 2007 to accompany the introduction of the new specialty training structure under Modernising Medical Careers.
A draft legislation on regulatory framework to vallidate medical devices is ready and will be forwarded soon to Health Ministry, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said today.
Survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is at an all-time high in King County, and a new method of resuscitation used by emergency medical responders in King County may be the reason. Since the protocol was adopted in 2005, survival rates jumped to 46% from 33% for the period of 2002 through 2004.
The tiff between the AIIMS and the U nion Health Ministry intensified further today with both exchanging letters on the controversial transfer of institute registrar to a rural healthcare centre.