Friday, July 23, 2010

RED BULL Inspiring - a heart attack and stroke?

Even a very persuasive advertising can be questioned. What did a group of Australian doctors, isssledovavshaya properties stimulating the energy drink Red Bull.
This supersaturated caffeinated beverage, popular with university students and avid sports fans, increases blood viscosity. Tests have shown that the use of only one jar may increase the risk of myocardial infarction or stroke, even among young people.
The researchers examined the functional state of the cardiovascular system in 30 young people for 1 hour before and 1 hour after consuming one 250-milliliter jars drink Red Bull, does not contain sugar. The results showed that in healthy individuals after consuming the drink watch the development of symptoms, which are mainly characterized for cardiovascular disease.
Doctors warn that Red Bull could potentially lead to death against a background of stress disorders or high blood pressure, vascular dysfunction and increased risk of thrombosis.
Officials of the company «Red Bull Australia» agreed to submit the results of this study to the central office in Austria, but also emphasize that the findings of Australian doctors are too categorical.

FAMILIAR DRUGS IN NEW PACKAGING

Since April 2009 KRKA preparations will begin to appear in Russian pharmacies in packs of a new sample. Change of packaging design will enable consumers to easily identify different products company. Design consistent with systematic rules and allow a well to perceive all key information.
Since April 2009 the Krka products will begin to appear in Russian pharmacies in packs of a new sample. Change of packaging design will enable consumers to easily identify different products company.

WHAT HARMFUL COMPUTER "sitting"?

The current generation sat for hours at the computer without thinking about the repercussions of this habit.
1. sporchennaya figure. At first glance, it seems that people sitting at the computer screen in a relaxed position. In fact, his body was tense, especially this relates to the muscles of the neck and head, shoulders and hands are full, there is an excessive load on the spine, scoliosis develops in children, adults - osteochondrosis. It's unpleasant, and that between the chair seat and the body is formed of heat wrap, which leads to blood stagnation in the pelvic organs. Thus, developing prostatitis and hemorrhoids, which require a long and unpleasant treatment. Plus, a sedentary lifestyle is often the cause of obesity.

RUSSIA starts manufacturing of influenza vaccine A/H1N1

In Russia, begin to produce new vaccines against pandemic influenza. According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, by March 2010 the vaccine will be vaccinated about 40 million people.

GlaxoSmithKline will pay a billion dollars in lawsuits related to the effects of antidepressants

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline announced the settlement of claims, claims against the new antidepressant «Paxil». According to media reports, the corporation agreed to pay a billion dollars of compensation for 800 claims.
The claims relate to adverse effects in newborns whose mothers took an antidepressant.
Previously, against GlaxoSmithKline filed numerous lawsuits concerning not only the actions of the fetus in pregnant women, but also for side effects in children and adolescents, which doctors give «Paxil». The petitioners accused the manufacturer of concealing the results of clinical studies.

Room Galician pharmacies

Room Galician pharmacies depended on the financial capacity of the owner. Furnishings, showcases serve primarily advertising goals.
In the pharmacies used different tools - from primitive glasses and flasks of alchemists to the latest at the time of equipment - microscopes, analytical balances. The chemist, used different scales, manual typewriters to make pills and suppositories, shtanglassami porcelain, earthenware and made of stained glass and wood and metal, with inscriptions, frames, and the emblems of pharmacy sets mortars, presses for the manufacture of juices from herbs and fruits , travorezkami, infundirnymi apparatus, distilling stills for distilled water and alcohol, wine barrels and amphorae from clay for syrups, bast, wood, metal boxes for storing medicines.
In 1784 in Galicia entered the Vienna system measures and weights, and sternly forbidden to use the old Polish system of measures.

Parkinson's Law in the Pharmaceutical

Unbelievable fight is with us with fake and poor quality drugs. Conducted meetings and conferences, signed the agreement, including international. In the Ministry of Health established Pharmaceutical Inspectorate. Almost every day on the official website of the Ministry of Health publishes the suspension of licenses for farmdeyatelnost - the only thing that has the right Farminspektsiya.
And yet there will be changes in the administrative and criminal law, neither the police nor the doctors nor the pharmacists will not be able to effectively fight counterfeits. The need for such changes it is already several years. Three years ago, Deputy Minister of Health, Anton Katlinsky said that as soon as counterfeiters are punished, this phenomenon is counterfeit drugs virtually disappear. The Ministry of Health even provided input on the production of counterfeit tablets in the prosecutor's office, but the results were not followed.