Tess February 26th, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new amphetamine-based drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder won federal approval Friday. It’s harder to abuse than older stimulants, the manufacturer says.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Vyvanse, also known as lisdexamfetamine, agency spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said. The drug is made by Shire PLC.
Shire hopes the drug will extend its lucrative ADHD franchise once its top-selling Adderall XR begins facing competition from lower-priced generic versions in 2009. Shire plans to move patients from the older to the newer drug at the time, company spokesman Matt Cabrey said this week.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic biochemical disorder which affects the body’s ability to use carbohydrates, sugars and starches. People with diabetes are not able to produce sufficient insulin or are unable to use the insulin they produce effectively enough to break down glucose or sugar in the blood and make it available to the body.
More than 16 million Americans alone suffer from diabetes. Diabetes is often referred to as an epidemic in the Western World today.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
Amongst different types of infections, UTI rates among one of the most common types. Although women are much more vulnerable to urinary tract infections, men too face severe symptoms associated with of UTI. The incidence and frequency of urinary tract infection in males is related to age. The frequency of UTI in men becomes comparable to that of women only when they approach the age of 60 or are older.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
One of the main functions of the endocrine system (a collective name for the organs of the body that secrete substances like hormones into blood or lymph) in our body is to regulate metabolism. Metabolism is a series of complicated continuous processes that include converting food, water and oxygen into tissue, energy, and waste products. The thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, parathyroid, pancreas, ovaries, and testes are the chief endocrine glands.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
There are a number of different conditions that can cause sciatica pain, which by itself is a general term indicating pain caused by compression or irritation of one or more nerves that exit from lower spine and extend up to the feet.
Some episodes of sciatic pain subside on their own within a couple of weeks but quick recourse to sciatic nerve treatment is highly recommended to obtain fast relief and to avoid future complications.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
Body pain is never welcome. Irrespective of the kind of pain that one is going through, the discomfort is annoying and, at times, agonizing.
Though we may have experienced different kinds of pains like a muscular pain, a toothache, abdominal pain and the like, the pain caused by a pinched or herniated nerve is excruciating.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — The more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth-grade teachers were to report problem behavior.
Also, children who got good quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did youngsters who received lower quality care.
The findings come from the largest study of child care and development conducted in the United States. The 1,364 children in the analysis had been tracked since birth as part of a study by the National Institutes of Health.
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Tess February 23rd, 2007
Use Diabetonic regularly to:
* Ensure systemic balance of biochemic tissue salts in the body
* Optimize health at the cellular level
* Relieve symptoms of disease
* Restore health and vitality
* Safely treat a wide range of symptoms without side effects
* Optimize the therapeutic effects of other remedies by improving systemic functioning and metabolism
What are tissue salts?
Tissue Salts, also called cell salts or biochemic salts, are composed of minerals which occur naturally in our bodies and all organic matter on earth, such as plants, rocks and soil.
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Tess February 22nd, 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Manufacturers of attention deficit drugs should alert patients to possible cardiovascular and psychiatric risks from the medicines, health officials said Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration said it told the drugmakers to develop patient-friendly guides that explain the risks and hand them out with the medicines.
“Medicines approved for the treatment of ADHD have real benefits for many patients but they may have serious risks as well,” Dr. Steven Galson, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a statement.
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Tess February 21st, 2007
All social categories and age groups can appreciate Yoga as a relaxation method or even as a life style choice. Yoga practitioners investigated the physical and mental differences between men and women for a protracted time. In general, men are known to be less emotional than women and they frequently suppress their emotions. This can lead to Stress and, eventually, to an increased hazard of heart problems.
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