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  • AskScreenKnow.com gets interactive

    PRINCETON, N.J. Novo Nordisk's website AskScreenKnow.com features new interactive enhancements, offering additional information and resources on diabetes.

     

    AskScreenKnow.com visitors now can get involved through various interactive features on the site, including:

  • Vaccines sector of healthcare market expands, report finds

    NEW YORK The global market for vaccines grew to more than $20 billion last year, according to a report by healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.

     

    The New York-based firm’s report, “Vaccines 2010: World Market Analysis, Key Players and Critical Trends in a Fast-Changing Industry,” indicated that the world market for preventative vaccines was $22.1 billion in 2009, compared with $19 billion in 2008.

     

     

  • APhA to consumers: Get your flu shot

    WASHINGTON More than 120,000 pharmacists in 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have received training to administer immunizations against influenza, prompting one pharmacy group to urge consumers to get themselves vaccinated.

     

    The American Pharmacists Association is encouraging consumers to get influenza immunizations and consider their local pharmacies as places to receive vaccines.

     

     

  • FDA approves emergency contraceptive Ella

    SILVER SPRING, Md. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an emergency contraceptive pill made by a French drug maker.

     

    The FDA announced the approval of Ella (ulipristal acetate), designed to prevent pregnancy when taken orally within five days of unprotected sex or contraceptive failure, though it is not designed for routine use as a contraceptive.

     

     

  • FDA's new video addresses fracture risk when using PPIs

    SILVER SPRING, Md. The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 9 posted a video outlining the revised prescription and over-the-counter labels for proton-pump inhibitors that include new safety information about a possible increased risk of fractures of the hip, wrist and spine with the use of these medications.

     

    The video is a part of the FDA’s Drug Info Rounds, “a program by pharmacists for pharmacists,” and presented by the Division of Drug Information pharmacists division of FDA.

     

     

  • Codman Square Health Center launches Fruit and Veggie Rx program

    DORCHESTER, Mass. Codman Square Health Center on Thursday hosted a press conference to celebrate the launch of its pilot Fruit and Veggie Prescription program, a health initiative whereby physicians can prescribe vouchers for local farmers markets and then monitor the impact of the increased fruit and vegetable consumption on patients’ health.

     

  • East Harlem walk-in asthma center opens

    NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer have announced the opening of a new asthma walk-in center in East Harlem, where the rate of childhood asthma hospitalizations is the highest in the city.

    The new East Harlem walk-in asthma center -- an expansion of the East Harlem Asthma Center of Excellence and a part of the City's PlaNYC initiative -- is aimed to reduce childhood asthma hospitalizations by 50% over the next five years.

  • Diabetic retinopathy affects nearly 30% of U.S. diabetic adults, study shows

    WASHINGTON The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease caused by diabetes, has increased among diabetic adults in the United States, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

  • Text messages may aid medication adherence for teen diabetics

    COLUMBUS, Ohio A pilot study conducted by an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is looking to increase medication adherence among adolescent diabetic patients with text message alerts.

  • WHO: H1N1 in post-pandemic period, but it's not over

    NEW YORK The World Health Organization's director-general Margaret Chan issued a statement on Tuesday that the H1N1 influenza has entered the post-pandemic period, but warned that the virus has not yet gone away.

    While WHO has reported marginal levels of H1N1 transmission worldwide as of late, Chan said it expects the H1N1 virus to take on the behavior of a seasonal influenza virus and continue to circulate for some years to come.

     

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