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- Spermicide Nonoxynol-9 Gets FDA Warning
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‘Protected time wanted to allow consultants to carry out research&…
Irish Times – Dec 18, 2007
At a meeting with health service management last month a groupincluding Dr Jim Egan consultant physician at the Mater Hospitaland Sharon Higgins and Rosemary Durcan of the Irish Medical DevicesAssociation argued that the new contract should contain protectedtime to allow consultants to carry out research. Login or subscribe for more »Choose a Subscription type – required.
Pfizer to look at India China for collaborations
Livemint – Dec 18, 2007
It also plans to reduce the number of manufacturing locations from 93 to 48 by the same deadline. The plan also includes closure of five R&D sites and relocation of some research projects. Pfizer was one of the first multinational pharmaceutical companies to establish a dedicated clinical research division in India. About two-thirds of this division?s portfolio relates to human studies executed on behalf of Pfizer global research and development. Mint reported on 13 November that Indian units of Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline Plc. could benefit from the decisions of the parent companies to shut down some manufacturing and research facilities in the US and Europe and also cut jobs in some overseas locations on the back of lower sales and the failure of key products. LaMattina said though his firm does not expect blockbusters such as Lipitor which gives Pfizer revenues of $13 billion a year to come out of the current research stream it still has around 240 new drugs in the pipeline which is the biggest research pool among pharma firms.
Spermicide Nonoxynol-9 Gets FDA Warning
WebMD – Dec 18, 2007
The FDA made the rule to “correct misconceptions that the chemical N9 in these widely available stand-alone contraceptive products protects against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infection” Janet Woodcock MD says in a news release. “Clinical research has shown that N9 provides no protection against sexually transmitted diseases to the woman if her sexual partner is infected with an STD pathogen or HIV” says Woodcock who is the FDA’s deputy commissioner for scientific and medical program chief medical officer and acting director for the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. The FDA first proposed new warnings for nonoxynol-9 nearly five years ago after a study from Africa and Thailand showed that women using a contraceptive gel product containing N9 weren’t protected against HIV and other STDs and were more likely to develop HIV infection than women using a placebo gel.
Metabolic Syndrome: How Much Exercise? Moderate Exercise Can Curb…
CBS News – Dec 18, 2007
So say Duke University’s Johanna Johnson MS and colleagues. ”ur motto in this group after looking at all the data is that some exercise is always better than none and more is better than less” Johnson tells WebMD. She’s a clinical research coordinator at Duke University Medical Center. Metabolic Syndrome StudyJohnson’s team studied 334 adults with metabolic syndrome. People with metabolic syndrome have at least three of the following risk factors:Large waist Low levels of HDL (”good”) cholesterol High levels of triglycerides (a type of blood fat) Elevated blood pressure Elevated glucose (blood sugar)levels after fasting When the Duke study started participants were 40-65 years old overweight or obese and physically inactive. None had a history of heart disease diabetes or high blood pressure. Exercise and Metabolic SyndromeThe researchers split participants into four groups:Low amount of moderate exercise (equivalent to walking about 12 miles per week)Low amount of vigorous exercise (equivalent to jogging about 12 miles per week)High amount of vigorous exercise (equivalent to jogging nearly 20 miles per week)No exerciseParticipants in the exercise group didn’t plunge into their workouts.
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