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Drug inspectors seize samples of J&J baby products for testing
Following orders of Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), drug inspectors have seized samples of various baby products of Johnson and Johnson from wholesalers, retailers and distributors across the country on Friday, an official said. All the samples will be tested to see if they complied with all prescribed regulatory and manufacturing standards and also to check the presence of cancer causing asbestos, the government official said. "Around 100 samples of Johnson and Johnson's baby shampoo, oil, soap, besides the baby powder have been lifted from wholesalers, retailers and distributors from across the country, which will be tested to see if these complied with all prescribed regulatory and manufacturing standards and to check the presence of asbestos," the official said. The collected samples will be tested at the Central Drug Testing Laboratory. The regulator on Thursday ordered Johnson and Johnson to not use talc raw material from its Mulund plant in Mumbai and Baddi unit in ...
Malik e-inaugurates 15 H&WCs in J-K
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Friday launched 15 Health and Wellness Centres (H&WCs) in the state. Malik e-inaugurated the H&WCs during a function organised by the National Health Mission here. The 15 centres are in Doda, Jammu, Udhampur, Baramulla, Kupwara, and Pulwama districts of the state. Malik said the H&WCs will be instrumental in providing comprehensive primary healthcare to the people of the state. "The H&WCs are fully functional with respect to infrastructure, facade branding, human resource, equipment, drugs and diagnostics," he said. On the occasion, Malik presented awards to best performing districts, blocks and health workers during the measles-rubella vaccination campaign launched in the state on September 24. The governor said the appointment of 1,000medical officers was to end shortage of doctors in peripheral areas of the state. Chief secretary B V R Subrahmanyan and Principal secretary, Health, Atal Dulloo were the architects of the ...
Fatty diet may lead to life-threatening liver disease: Study
High fat and high cholesterol diet may trigger changes in the immune system that can lead to a serious form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a study warns. An estimated 20 per cent of people with NAFLD have non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), according to the study published in the journal Hepatology. NASH can eventually progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer, especially in those with obesity or Type 2 diabetes. Patients with NAFLD are also at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, they said. "Despite its increasing prevalence and burden to the health care system, there are currently no US Food and Drug Administration-approved therapies for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease," said Hugo Rosen, a professor at University of Southern California in the US. "There's an urgent need to better understand the causes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease progression so that successful therapeutics can be designed and brought into clinical practice," Rosen said. The study ...
Calorie label can make you rethink food choices
Love eating fries, cherry cheesecake or that scrumptious cheeseburger? But you might resist binging on those after reading the calorie content information, say researchers.
Diabetes drug could treat heart disease: Study
Researchers have discovered that metformin -- a drug commonly used to treat Type-2 diabetes -- might also be used to treat a specific form of heart failure known as preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), finds a new study.
Say bye-bye to winter woes
In winters, it is crucial to take extra care of the skin and adjust our beauty regimes to protect it and hair.
Mystery shrouds death of 4 poultry farm workers near Hyd'bad
Mystery shrouded the death of four young men at a poultry farm near here where they were engaged in vaccinating 14,000 chicks, police said Friday. The four, in their mid 20s, had been involved in the vaccination work for the past few days and had gone to sleep around 1 AM Friday. They were found dead in the morning, they said. Three of the men were employees of the poultry farm while the other was their friend. All belonged to Venkatapuram village in Mahabubabad district. The cause of death would be known only after autopsy, a police official said.
Aurobindo Pharma gets USFDA approval for Potassium Chloride Extended- Release tablets
Potassium Chloride tablets are indicated for the treatment of hypokalemia, with or without metabolic alkalosis, in digitalis intoxication, and in hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis. The approved product has an estimated market size of ~US$ 60 million for the twelve months ending October 2018, according to IQVIA.
Sun Pharma arm gets USFDA nod for epilepsy drug
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Friday said one of its subsidiaries has received approval from the US health regulator to market Elepsia XR, an antiepileptic drug. The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has granted approval for the New Drug Application to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Pharma for Elepsia XR in the strengths of 1,000 mg and 1,500 mg, the company said in a regulatory filing. The product was filed from Sun Pharma's Halol (Gujarat) facility, it added. The subsidiary concerned had in-licensed Elepsia XR from Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company (SPARC) in July 2016. Sun Pharma shares settled at Rs 424.75 a piece, down 1.05 per cent on BSE.
Exercise, healthy diet may improve brain power in elderly: Study
Just 35 minutes of walking or cycling three times a week along with a healthy diet may improve brain power among the elderly, a study claims. The study, published in the journal Neurology, found that regular exercise and a healthy diet improve the heart and cardiovascular health and with this improvement in "neurocognitive functioning" can also be seen. "You're improving brain health at the same time as improving heart health," said James Blumenthal, a clinical psychologist at Duke University in the US. "I don't think there is another study that looked at the separate and combined effects of exercise and diet in slowing cognitive decline in patients who are vulnerable to develop dementia in later life," said Blumenthal. The team included 160 adults who were suffering from high blood pressure or other heart disease risk factors. These adults never exercised and had some degree of cognitive impairment such as difficulty concentrating or remembering or making decisions. The average age ..
Fatty diet linked to life-threatening liver disease
High fat and high cholesterol diet can trigger changes in the immune system that can lead to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a serious form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a study says.
Deccan Healthcare Breaks Lull in SME IPO Market
/ -- IPO Subscribed Amidst Subdued Primary Market Deccan Health Care Ltd ("Deccan/Company"), engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing and marketing a broad range of nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, ayurveda and healthcare products, closed the bid subscription of its initial public offering ("IPO") for 42,12,000 equity shares at a price band of INR 95-100 per share amounting to gross proceeds of INR 42.12 Crores, despite volatile markets and lukewarm responses to IPOs recently. The issue has been subscribed to 1.60 times. SME IPOs since April 2018 Funds Raised Month No of Listings (Rs in Cr) Dec 6* 97 Nov - - Oct 23 349 Sep 12 231 Aug 5 51 Jul 10 173 Jun 13 177 May 13 313 Apr 21 336 *Listing data assuming listing of Deccan Health Care Limited Since April 2018, 20 SME IPOs have raised funds over INR 25 Crs, Deccan being the 20th one. With IPO market drying up and no IPOs on main board since November, this is a first IPO in last 2 months that has garnered over INR 40 Crores ...
Exercise, healthy diet may improve cognitive skills in elders
Just 35 minutes of walking or cycling three times a week along with a healthy diet may improve cognitive skills in older adults, a new study suggests.
Aurobindo Pharma gets USFDA nod for hypokalemia treatment drug
Aurobindo Pharma Friday said it has received final approval from the US health regulator to manufacture and market Potassium Chloride extended release tablets, used in the treatment of hypokalemia. "The company has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for Potassium Chloride extended release tablets in the strengths of 8 mEq (600 mg) and 10 mEq (750 mg)," Aurobindo Pharma said in a BSE filing. The approved product is a generic version of Upsher-Smith's Klor-Con extended release tablets. Hypokalemia is a condition wherein blood's potassium levels are too low. Quoting IQVIA data, Aurobindo Pharma said the approved product has an estimated market size of USD 60 million for the twelve months ended October 2018. This is the 5th ANDA (abbreviated new drug application), including 2 tentative approvals, to be approved out of Unit X formulation facility in Naidupet, Andhra Pradesh used for manufacturing oral products, the company said. Aurobindo Pharma now ...
Tech giants focus AI on healthcare as India joins the bandwagon (2018 in Retrospect)
While the buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) gained ground in 2018, tech giants decided to utilise the Machine Leaning (ML)-based algorithms not just to help enterprises drive growth but also improve healthcare globally and India became an early adaptor.
Calorie-labelling makes people rethink food choices: Study
Seeing pictures of food with calorie information not only makes food less appetising but also appears to change the way your brain responds to the food, according to a study. When food images appeared with the calorie content, the brain showed decreased activation of the reward system and increased activation in the control system, said researchers from Dartmouth College in the US. In other words, foods that you might otherwise be inclined to eat became less desirable once the calorie content was displayed. The study, published in journal 'PLOS ONE', is the first of its kind to examine how your brain makes food choices when calorie information is presented. "Our findings suggest that calorie-labelling may alter responses in the brain's reward system when considering food options," said Andrea Courtney, who was a graduate student at Dartmouth at the time of the study. "Moreover, we believe that nutritional interventions are likely to be more successful if they take into account the ...
High dose of X-ray radiations increases cancer risk for obese patients
Extremely obese people need a higher dose of radiation during X-ray examinations than people of normal weight, which increases their risk of cancer, a recent study suggests.The study appeared in the 'Journal of Radiological Protection'. The University of Exeter and Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, led the study of more than 600 patients who had undergone surgery for weight loss.The researchers found 630 patients with an available history of radiation dose in X-rays carried out between 2007 and 2015. The patients in the study had a body mass index of up to 50, indicating they were severely obese and nearly twice the weight they should be for their height. They had all undergone procedures such as the fitting of gastric bands, gastric sleeves or gastric bypasses.The team found that obese patients received much higher doses of radiation during X-ray than normal weight people, which is necessary due to the increased amount of tissue to be imaged.The study concluded that the overall risk ..
ARTIST Introduces Digital Collaborative Model to Skill Doctors
/ -- - To train healthcare providers on quality and affordable maternal care, contraceptives and better management of Diabetes in Pregnancy Asian Research & Training Institute for Skill Transfer (ARTIST) has taken a huge leap by providing a packaged training programme through digital platform and leading doctors from Karnataka attended the first ever such programme in state. Another team of doctors and nurses connected to the class digitally from Mumbai and with ECHO team in Delhi. (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/801567/ARTIST_Digital_Collaborative.jpg ) ARTIST vision is to collaborate with industry experts and train the frontline healthcare providers in ObGyn through skill transfer. In this direction it has combined its initiatives Manyata, Parivarthan (#WhoDecides) and Diabetes in Pregnancy in the training module. Speaking about collaborating with Project ECHO Zoom for the Manyata sessions, National Convener of Manyata, Dr. Hema Divakar said, "Divakars Speciality ...
Mumbaikars to walk for 'toxicity-free, good food'
Over 10,000 Mumbaikars, including cancer patients and farmers, will march for healthy and 'toxicity-free' good foodstuff grown naturally without using deadly chemicals or pesticides, an organiser said here on Friday.