drugs
Jun 16th, 2010
Medical Tourism is a Promising Trend of Health Care Development in Ghana
Health care service in Ghana is of relatively high quality as compared to other African countries. Such indexes as tentative lifespan, mortality level, overall Health care expenditures are better than average indexes across Africa.
In Ghana there are two medical schools – in Accra and Kumasi. In all the major regional cities there are hospitals, medical...
Feb 12th, 2010
Abbott Secures Conditional EU Approval for Solvay’s Drugs Acquisition
Abbott Laboratories has secured conditional EU approval for the acquisition of the drug unit of Solvay. Abbott will need to divest the cystic fibrosis testing business of Solvay pharma’s subsidiary Innogenetics in Europe, as part of the approval. The European Commission said it had concerns that the combined market share in cystic fibrosis testing could...
Oct 13th, 2008
Bisphenol A Linked to Chemotherapy Resistance
CINCINNATI — Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments, say University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists.
The research study, led by UC’s Nira Ben-Jonathan, PhD, says that BPA-a man-made chemical found in a number of plastic products, including drinking bottles and the lining of food cans-actually induces a group of proteins that...