'Deep and crisp and eaten': The Scottish deep-fried Mars bar
...rs bars; three-quarters of the shops had only been selling them for the past 3 years. Average sales were 23 bars per week, although 10 outlets sold between 50 and 200 bars a week. The average price per bar was 60 pence, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the younger generation were the main purchasers--three-quarte...New study demonstrates co-administration
...ration (FDA) for marketing in May 2000, is the top selling branded drug in the bile acid sequestrant class (BAS). WelChol is different from most other cholesterol-lowering drugs on the market because it is non-systemic, meaning that the body does not absorb it and it is eliminated without traveling t...Patient privacy at risk in hospitals' hallways, lobbies, cafeterias
...-care providers and institutions from divulging or selling patient information," says Mattson, who studies health communication issues of privacy and safety. "But we found that the daily conversations of physicians, nurses, hospital staff and technicians can jeopardize the same kind of personal information. ...OTC statins: A bad decision for public health
...individual's risk of coronary heart disease before selling the drug and also to give lifestyle advice? All these are unknowns, which is unfortunate for the UK public, who will be the guineapigs in this large-scale OTC experiment. Americans have escaped this role, with two applications for OTC statins (pravas...CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...ing received the drug worldwide, it is the largest selling branded immunosuppressive in North America today. ...munosuppressant therapies. CellCept is the largest selling branded immunosuppressive in North America, offers both physicians and patients the possibility of a...Keep prescribing information private
...estion the propriety of the practice of pharmacies selling such information to pharmaceutical companies. The authors recommend a thorough review of the many issues associated with the confidentiality of personal health information. Specifically, the authors call for a committee to be established by Health C...Roche pledges continued support for Organ Transplantation Research Foundation
...he newly transplanted organ, CellCept, the largest selling branded immunosuppressive in North America, offers both physicians and patients the possibility of an effective long term immunosuppressive regimen with low toxicity, and Valcyte, developed for the prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus, a dange...UNC study shows Internet offers youths easy way to buy cigarettes
...erifying the age of their customers than Web sites selling cigarettes," he said. The U.S. Postal Service or t...tes in this study was breaking any federal laws by selling to children, although at least six states prohibit it. Congress has been considering legislation to ...Herbal weight-loss product information can be misleading
...s at Johns Hopkins searched the Internet for sites selling herbal weight-loss products including ephedra, then evaluated the information posted on those sites for medical accuracy. Their report appears in a recent issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Of the 32 Web sites analyzed, 13 (41 percent) failed to dis...Health insurance scams leave thousands with large medical debts and no coverage
...a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Companies selling phony insurance collect premiums from enrollees but fail to pay health care providers. With no safety net, such as a state guaranty fund, to pay medical claims when these plans become insolvent, victims are often left with huge medical debts. "These ...Yale expert warns children may lead shorter lives than their parents because of obesity
...set the lost revenue suffered by schools that stop selling soft drinks and snack food....New study sheds light on reasons behind teenage gun toting
...re likely to be involved with selling drugs or fighting. How often a teen carried a gun depended on his level of involvement in either activity, Steinman said. "For many teens, carry...Secret documents reveal how tobacco industry targeted gay men
.... "The company was undermining gay men's health by selling them a lethal product, then trying to stay in the closet about the relationship." Ruth Malone, RN, PhD, associate professor in the UCSF School of Nursing and senior author on both analyses, said the research shows why current lesbian, gay, bisexual a...Conference considers compensating organ donors
...s not clear how ready people are to agree with the selling and buying of organs," added Kristina Orfali, sociologist and ethicist at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and co- organizer of the conference. "Ethical, legal, cultural and even religious barriers will hav...An automated observation system to analyse the behaviour of laboratory rodents
...er cent increase in turnover for the Dutch company selling it, Noldus Information Technology. Dr Noldus, managing director of Noldus Information Technology, found his first experience with EUREKA and international cooperation a very rewarding one. "We have been able to take an idea, stemming from the market,...Soaking in the genius of Mother Nature
...le resource, no longer based on petroleum is a big selling point," Handy said. "But even more than that these are recycable systems, so you can use the solvent over and over and over and over." After being tipped off to a possible connection by the sponsored funding database, Community of Science, Handy said...Inaccurate arsenic test kits jeopardize water safety in Bangladesh and India
...ity, which is operated solely on money earned from selling its expertise. Jason Gorss...Important information to consider about non-systemic cholesterol lowering agents
...ny statin. WelChol has been studied with three top selling statins -- Lipitor, Zocor and Mevacor. Results demonstrated that co-administration of WelChol and statins can lower LDL cholesterol levels significantly better than using either therapy alone. The bile acid sequestrant (BAS) class is well studied ...U-M School of Nursing team develops software to track work of nurses and results
... become a self-sustaining project, perhaps through selling benchmarking studies or spinning it off to a private company, or whether grants might pay for its use at additional sites. Keenan had hoped a commercial software company would develop a program to provide these functions, but when the private sector ...... income of the sellers declined by one-third after selling a kidney, and 86 percent had a worsening of their ...conomic and health status appeared to worsen after selling a kidney. Most of them would not recommend that others sell a kidney." "These findings undercut ar...