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Beware of These Numbing Cream Manufacturers!

Carl — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:49:46 +0000

Beware of These Numbing Cream Manufacturers! Date Wednesday, June 17th 2009, 10:43 PM Icon 1 Date 0 1 The Food and Drug Administration warned five medication production firms on December 5, 2006, to stop compounding and distributing a...

BrainPort Vision Device for the visually impaired to 'feel' images

Bharat — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:08 +0000

The BrainPort is a vision device funded by the National Eye Institute, which provides information to blind individuals via a neuro-stimulating array placed on the tongue. This unique device provides immediate benefits to its blind users in the...

FDA approves eye-implantable miniature telescope

Bharat — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:55:05 +0000

An advanced prosthesis developed by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, for patients surfing with severe macular degeneration, has received a confirmatory approval from the FDA. This implantable telescope could be a new hope in vision restoration...

Skin numbing creams may prove life threatening: FDA

Anupam Agnihotri — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:05:25 +0000

Skin numbing creams that are often used to soothe burning or itching skin as well as pain before, during and after various procedures, contain numbing drugs, including, lidocaine, tetracaine, benzocaine and prilocaine, may result in...

FDA issues rules for genetically modified animals

Craig — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:19:50 +0000

Genetically engineered animals moved closer to the dinner table on Thursday as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made the process it will use to review new proposals...

Revolutionary treatment for HIV!

Shuchi Kalra — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:51:58 +0000

Science now seems close to winning the war against AIDS, as FDA approves of a new drug which has a different course of action as compared to the already existing ones. The new drug, known as ‘Isentress’ acts upon the HIV virus in a...

Study: Asthma linked to increased risk for suicide attempts in adults

Leena — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:09:35 +0000

According to a recent research conducted by Dr. Diana E. Clarke, Ph.D that will be published in May in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, there seems to be a link between asthma and increased risk of suicide attempts. This is the first...

MiroCam: Miraculous capsule camera for Endoscopy!

Mahua — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:56:17 +0000

With significant development in medical diagnostics and imaging, we see a lot of new products coming to health care market. Anyone who has undergone the traditional Endoscopy would vouch about the difficulty he faced while swallowing the rigid...

Outsourcing can come to the rescue of pharma companies struggling to meet FDA requirements for combo products

Gautam — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:16:34 +0000

Pharma and medical devices companies are having a tough time in meeting the testing guidelines due to the development of combo products and outsourcing has the potential to come to their rescue in this regard. Combo products are selling like hot...

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified by the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)

Craig — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:25:28 +0000

The table below lists the names of products and potential signals of serious risks/new safety information that were identified for these products during the period January...