The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that manufacturers of metoclopramide, a drug used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, must add a boxed warning to their drug labels about the risk of its long-term or high-dose use.
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The Obama administration is expected to begin the process to rescind the HHS provider “conscience” rule, two months after former President George W. Bush’s administration enacted the rule in one of its final policy initiatives, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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UroToday.com - It is becoming clear that many age-related health problems of men, hitherto regarded as distinct clinical diagnostic categories and treated by different medical disciplines, are actually inter-related and require a more integrative approach to advance health care of the aging male. At the epidemiological level, an association between central obesity in adulthood, [...]
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EMEA, the European Medicines Agency, the body responsible for the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human use in Europe, played host to EFPIA, the voice of the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Europe, for their 14th joint annual Information Day. The event gathered over 100 people from industry to meet with regulators in an exchange [...]
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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) is the trade association for community pharmacy in the UK and has virtually 100% of community pharmacies in membership. The NPA has over 600 member pharmacies, two board members and a member of staff working in Wales. The NPA endorses the response to this consultation made by Community Pharmacy Wales, [...]
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The NHS North West Pharmacy Workforce Development Group - through one of its sub groups, the MUR Review Group - hosted a regional workshop to review the implementation of the MUR service and to consider how to integrate and align this service with NHS priorities as defined in the Pharmacy White Paper. [...]
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The following statement was issued by Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood following the address President Obama delivered to Congress and the nation last night: “The biotechnology community applauds and shares many of the priorities outlined by President Obama last night. We believe our industry is uniquely positioned to help [...]
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A new article in The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences reveals that African American women aged 60 and older who volunteer in elementary schools are not only more physically active than their non-volunteering counterparts, but seem to sustain this physical activity over time. Specifically, those who volunteered burned twice as many calories as those who [...]
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UroToday.com - The report, one of four published articles from a population-based cross-sectional study principally on male erectile dysfunction (ED), is based on the responses of 1,580 participants to questions on their alcohol drinking behaviour. To assess the effects of alcohol on erectile function was not the primary objective of the study.
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