EU agency raps Roche over lax drug-safety reporting

Logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is pictured in Rotkreuz

(Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency said on Thursday it was investigating Swiss group Roche Holding AG after a routine inspection found it had failed to properly assess 80,000 cases of possible adverse drug reactions. Logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is pictured in Rotkreuz The issue relates to medicines from across the Roche product More...

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By Team Folks On Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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Gates Foundation Appreciates India’s Progress Against Polio

Seattle (USA) – Health leaders around the world today will acknowledge an important achievement in the fight against polio as India marks one year since the last recorded case of wild poliovirus in the country. More...

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By Team Folks On Saturday, November 26th, 2011
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Dreaming helps ease bad memories: Study

Want to get rid of those traumatic experiences? Well, go to sleep and start dreaming — it can help you deal with bad memories, scientists say. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, found More...

Immune cells in the spleen have brought in stowaways: Listeria bacteria, which appear green in the image. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the immune cells the bacteria have exploited can be both helpful and harmful in fighting infection. The cells could be particularly useful in efforts to turn the immune system against cancers using vaccines. Credit: Kenneth Murphy
By Team Folks On Saturday, August 27th, 2011
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Rare immune cell is asset and liability in fighting infection

Immune cells in the spleen have brought in stowaways: Listeria bacteria, which appear green in the image. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the immune cells More...

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By Team Folks On Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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How to take care of skin in winters

Health wealth Winter is a soothing season away from the scorching heat so most people like it, but it is harsh on your health and skin too. Thus,one should be careful about his/her skin and health. Winters mostly More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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MATters the most

By Wg Cdr V S Bejoy Management as profession gets associated with all facets of human activities. Therefore, there is persistent demand for quality managerial manpower. This is true irrespective of the phase of More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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How to make immune system strong in winter

In winter, the sun sets earlier, a chill fills the air, and we spend less time outside being active and more time inside eating starchy and sugary foods. Our hibernating instinct doesn’t keep us healthy. Rather, More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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How to recover from jetlag

While hopping around countries, whether for business purposes or leisure travel, is the dream of many people, very few of them realise that it is not ‘all fun and no pain’. Jet lag is one of the worst problems More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, November 28th, 2009
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Marma Points and the Practice of Yoga

By David Frawley The main aspect of Yoga practice that actively considers the use of marmas is the practice of Pratyahara, which is the fifth branch of Yoga. Pratyahara mediates between the outer factors of Yoga, More...

By Team Folks On Saturday, November 28th, 2009
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Hysteria called swine flu

By Preeti John Friday’s are off days for me. My weekend starts on Friday and so they are used for reading blogs, trying different Indian recipes and writing my column. On Friday the 13th, I was trying to finish More...