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Elder Pharmaceuticals’ R&D Division Creates a Novel Drug… Elder Pharmaceuticals’ R&D Division Creates a Novel drug Delivery System for a Nutraceutical Formulation Elder to file for worldwide patents. Read more about Elder Pharmaceuticals’ R&D Division Creates a Novel Drug… No tags for this post.

Antibiotics might help The more one compares the 1997 Asian crisis and the ongoing Western-centred one, the gloomier one gets about prospects for the latter. Read more about Antibiotics might help No tags for this post.

FDA Warns on Contaminated IV Antibiotics The Food and drug Administration has warned doctors and hospitals not to use intravenous antibiotics and an anti-nausea made by Claris Lifesciences because the products are contaminated. Read more about FDA Warns on Contaminated IV Antibiotics No tags for this post.

Douche: do or don’t? Decades ago, TV viewers watched ads that tried, delicately, to sell women on the practice of douching. Read more about Douche: do or don’t? No tags for this post.

Men’s Skin Cancer Deaths Double In Last 30 Years The rates of men dying from malignant melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – have doubled in the last 30 years, according to the latest Cancer Research UK figures published last friday. In the late 70s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died [...]

Excommunication Of Ariz. Nun Exemplifies ‘Attack’ On Women By Catholic Church, Newsweek Opinion Piece Says “At a time when the male leadership [of the Catholic Church] can be blamed for leading the church to a state of crisis — at time when the voices of women are needed more than ever — even the modest [...]

Planned Parenthood President Responds To New York Times Column On Global Family Planning Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times column on challenges to family planning in developing nations “rightly prescribes more than just dispensing birth control pills in helping women make informed reproductive choices,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards writes in a [...]

Videos Discuss Marie Stopes TV Ad, Access To Antiretrovirals, Family Planning In Africa The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos.  Marie Stopes Launches TV Ad: Fox News reported on a new British TV ad from Marie Stopes International that urges women with unplanned pregnancies to call a toll-free hotline for counseling. Antiabortion-rights groups are [...]

Sebelius: Employers Should Quickly Offer Coverage To Workers’ Children Up To Age 26 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Thursday urged employers to extend health insurance to children of their employees up to age 26 before a provision in the new law requiring them to do so takes effect later this year, The New [...]

Health Law Having Effect On Managed-Care Firms, Medical Suppliers Managed-care firms may be positioned for a rebound on the stock market, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Over the past two years, the Standard & Poor’s 500 managed-care index has fallen about 19%, weighed down by the health overhaul bill, weak economy and specific industry issues. [...]