Provides the latest RSS feeds for Pharmaceutical News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page St Louis Star.com http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/cat/6dcd932030878143/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:12 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:12 -0400 30 Accra, May 17, GNA - The Executive Council of Ghana Chamber of Pharmacy (GCP) on Friday commended government and Ministry of Health for rolling out mechanism for the establishment of a Bioequivalence ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214606483/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:06 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214606483/scat/6dcd932030878143 The New York Times : Pills Tracked From Doctor To Patient To Aid Drug Marketing The information allows drug makers to know which drugs a doctor is prescribing and how that compares to a colleague across town. They know whether patients are filling their prescriptions -; and refilling them on time. They know details of patients' medical conditions and lab tests, and sometimes even their age, ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214600850/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:37:39 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214600850/scat/6dcd932030878143 (Rotigotine Transdermal System) reduced total nocturnal systolic blood pressure (NSBP) elevations associated with periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) and total PLMS in patients with idiopathic moderate-to-severe Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease. The data was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension, May 15-18, 2013. The data ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214600358/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:35:36 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214600358/scat/6dcd932030878143 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in respiratory health, is updating healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients that the transition to ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214598299/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:23:52 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214598299/scat/6dcd932030878143 QRxPharma Limited (ASX: QRX and OTCQX: QRXPY) announced today the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set 17 July 2013 as the date of the Advisory Committee meeting to consider the Company's resubmitted ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214598298/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:23:51 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214598298/scat/6dcd932030878143 Staphylococcus aureus ). Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a huge problem all over the world: For example, 25 - 50 per cent of the inhabitants in southern Europe are resistant to staphylococci. In the Scandinavian countries it is less than 5 per cent, but also here the risk of resistance is on the rise. So any effective anti-inflammatory candidate is important to investigate - even if the ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214597607/scat/6dcd932030878143 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:19:19 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214597607/scat/6dcd932030878143 blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetics may also improve cardiovascular health, researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center reported in a new meta-analysis presented yesterday at the American Society of Hypertension's Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition. Researchers found that the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, known as GLP-1 mimetics, resulted in a ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214594843/scat/6dcd932030878143 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:53:50 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214594843/scat/6dcd932030878143 Johnson & Johnson's DePuy orthopedics business plans to stop selling a couple of hip replacement systems not widely used by doctors. DePuy will discontinue both its Ultamet Metal-on-Metal Articulation and Complete Ceramic-on-Metal Acetabular systems worldwide at the end of August. It made the decision as part of a push to streamline its product portfolio. DePuy said Thursday the ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214590499/scat/6dcd932030878143 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:17:52 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214590499/scat/6dcd932030878143 WASHINGTON -- The humanitarian situation in a rural area of eastern South Sudan appears to be worsening after a hosptial run by an international medical group was heavily damaged in violence last week. Residents are fleeing Pibor town, which is in Jonglei state, near the border with Ethiopia, and some NGO's are evacuating staff from the area. The local hospital, which was run by the ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214589343/scat/6dcd932030878143 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:21 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214589343/scat/6dcd932030878143 Two Nigerians on Friday were sentenced to seven years in prison for producing a teething medicine that resulted in the deaths of at least 80 children. Abiodun Adeyemo and Ebele Austine Eromosele, who worked for a company that made My Pikin syrup, were found guilty by a court in Lagos, PM News reported. Justice Okechukwu Okeke of a Federal High Court also ordered the pharmaceutical company, ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214589345/scat/6dcd932030878143 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:04 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214589345/scat/6dcd932030878143 Impax Laboratories Inc. said Friday it is now selling a generic version of the migraine drug Zomig. Impax is now selling a low-cost generic version of Zomig tablets and orally disintegrating Zomig tablets in two strengths. Zomig, or zolmitriptan, is available in tablet and nasal spray form and as tablets that will disintegrate and can be taken without liquid. Impax said U.S. sales of the tablet ... http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214587897/scat/6dcd932030878143 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:06 -0400 http://www.stlouisstar.com/index.php/sid/214587897/scat/6dcd932030878143