Access to maternal health-care is extremely limited and poor nutrition, anemia and malaria are widespread in eastern Burma, which increases the risk of pregnancy complications, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval for the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market its generic version of AstraZeneca’s antipsychotic agent Seroquel® (Quetiapine Fumarate) Tablets, Eq. 25 mg base, 50 mg base, 100 mg base, 150 mg base, 200 mg base, 300 mg base and 400 mg base. The brand product had annual sales of approximately $3.
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A major reduction in real prescription drug spending growth has created a “turning point” in healthcare with several policy implications, according to a study published this month by the journal Health Affairs as a Web Exclusive. The report, “Prescription Drug Spending Trends in the United States: Looking Beyond the Turning Point,” uses IMS Health (NYSE: RX) information adjusted for inflation to document that U.S.
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A major reduction in real prescription drug spending growth has created a “turning point” in healthcare with several policy implications, according to a study published this month by the journal Health Affairs as a Web Exclusive. The report, “Prescription Drug Spending Trends in the United States: Looking Beyond the Turning Point,” uses IMS Health (NYSE: RX) information adjusted for inflation to document that U.S.
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Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For every dollar spent by hospitals or health systems to provide clinical pharmacy services, $4.
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Anyone who has watched crime dramas on TV knows that forensic scientists can use DNA “profiling” to identify people from evidence gathered at a crime scene, establish a paternity link or help free an innocent person who has been wrongly jailed. A lesser known but rapidly growing application of DNA profiling is tracing a person’s paternal ancestry – a process known as genetic genealogy.
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A research team at the Stowers Institute has discovered how the expression of one of the Hox master control genes is regulated in a specific segment of the developing brain. The findings provide important insight into how and where the brain develops some of its unique and important structures. The findings were posted to the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science recently.
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WAGENINGEN – Liggen in 2020 insecten als voedsel in de schappen van de supermarkt? Hoogleraar Arnold van Huis van de Wageningen Universiteit verwacht van wel.
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Stoppen met roken is goed, maar nooit beginnen is beter, blijkt uit onderzoek van het Erasmus Medisch Centrum. Een geschiedenis met roken kan de kans op hartritmestoornissen namelijk vergroten.
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LONDEN – Kinderen die geboren zijn voor de 26e week van de zwangerschap kunnen op latere leeftijd minder goed temperatuurverschillen voelen. Onderzoek van University College London (UCL) wees dit uit.
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