Tobacco Control Inspectors (TCIs) of the Tobacco Control Office (TCO) under the Department of Health carried out operations throughout the New Year Eve and the New Year to help members of the public and venue managers adapt to the legislative changes of a smoke-free environment.
Patients are to be able to access a website on the performance of private hospitals.
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.
Biophan Technologies, Inc., a developer of next-generation medical technology, in conjunction with MYOTECH, LLC, recently presented results of animal studies that indicate the potential of the MYO-VAD, a cardiac support system to significantly improve the treatment of heart failure. The MYO-VAD restores cardiac output on an arrested or weak heart. The device can be implanted in approximately three minutes.
Between 1 January and 31 October 2006, 106 cases with evidence of chikungunya infection, have been reported by the HPA Special Pathogens Reference Unit (SPRU).
Today, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Taco Bell restaurants in Northeastern states appears to be over. However, additional cases from the outbreak period could still be identified. Based on a number of factors, iceberg lettuce is considered overall to be the single most likely source of the outbreak at this time. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to narrow its investigation by focusing its efforts on finding the sources of shredded iceberg lettuce served at the restaurants.
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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today narrowed its investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Taco Bell restaurants in Northeastern states by focusing its efforts on finding the sources of shredded lettuce served at the stores. This new focus is based on the fact that three items — shredded lettuce, cheddar cheese and cooked ground beef — were implicated in a study conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the items most likely to have been the vehicles of pathogen (disease-causing agent) transmission in this outbreak. Based on a number of other factors, as well as food processing techniques used for cheese (pasteurization) and ground beef (cooking), lettuce is considered overall to be the single most likely source of the outbreak at this time.
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.