Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner has revealed that he could not have had seven girlfriends had it not been for the sexual enhancement pill Viagra. Hefner, 84, who is in a relationship with Crystal Harris, Playmate of the Month in December, is an ardent supporter of the pill. “Couldn’t have had seven girlfriends without Viagra,†[...]
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Electronic Pill Bottle Cap Increases Medication Use, Study Says
June 28th, 2010 |
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Experimental electronic pill bottle caps prompted up to 99 percent of the participants of a study to stay on their medication schedules, says the Center for Connected Health. The pill bottle covers send wireless signals that activate a glowing light, a tune, automated calls, text messages or e-mails to notify patients that it’s time to take their medication. – Having trouble remembering to take your pills? According to preliminary
results from a study by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners
HealthCare, wireless electronic pill bottle caps may be able to help.
The telehealth provider announced the results of a study on June 23 that
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Novartis share rose on getting right to sell the MS pill
June 11th, 2010 |
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After it won a U.S regulatory advisory panel’s support for launching the first pill for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, share of Novartis AG rose 3.1 percent in Zurich trading. Advisors to the Food and Drug Adminstration have voted 21-3 in favor of the pill and it gave boost to the share prices of the [...]
Correction: Folic acid
September 3rd, 2009 |
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In “On the Pill” (August 29th) we attribute the work on folic acid which the article describes to Steven Bailey and Bruce Ames. Dr Ames edited the scientific paper in which the original study was published, but he was not directly involved in the research. Dr Bailey’s actual colleague was June Ayling who is, like him, a member of the University of South Alabama. Apologies to all involved. This has been corrected online.
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Folic acid: On the pill
August 27th, 2009 |
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Fortification programmes may lead to overconsumption of folic acid
Correction to this article
MOST people who seek to lead a healthy lifestyle know that they should eat an array of fruits and vegetables every day. But when good intentions go awry, or just as an insurance policy, there are always vitamin pills. …
Big drug firms embrace generics: Friends for life
August 6th, 2009 |
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Big pharmaceutical firms are learning to love their erstwhile enemies, makers of generic drugs
ONE recent evening, the most powerful man in the world posed an existential question to those around him. “If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half the price for the thing that’s going to make you well?” Thus Barack Obama captured one of two powerful global trends forcing pharmaceutical giants to look for a new business model.
Cost-conscious governments everywhere are bashing pricey patented drugs even as they boost cheap generics. In the past few weeks regulators in America and the European Union have announced separate crackdowns on anti-competitive practices, including “pay-for-delay” deals, whereby big drugmakers pay generics firms to delay the launch of competitors to drugs coming off patent. From Japan to Germany, governments are liberalising drug markets, sweeping away barriers to generics. …
‘Jude Law assumed model expecting his baby was on the Pill’
August 3rd, 2009 |
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Jude Law thought that the model Samantha Burke, who is said to be expecting his child, was on the Pill to prevent pregnancy, say sources.
“Jude assumed she was on the Pill. He was stunned at being informed of the pregnancy. Jude feels like now he has been made to look the bad guy,†the Mirror [...]
Catholic bank owned pill shares
August 3rd, 2009 |
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A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies. Der Spiegel newspaper discovered the bank had invested 580,000 euros (£495,310, $826,674) in British arms company BAE Systems.
Deborah King: Michael Jackson: The King of Pills
July 15th, 2009 |
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The King is dead, long live the King. The multi-talented and charismatic performer may be gone, to live on in a digitally-recorded afterlife, but…