Advanced Medical Institute Inc. (previously AVMD.PK and now AVMD.OB or AMI), a leading provider of treatment for Erectile Dysfunction and Premature Ejaculation in Australasia, is pleased to announce that as of March 27, 2007 its shares of common stock have been cleared by the NASD for trading on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
“We […]
The number one goal of drug makers in dispatching sales representatives to meet with doctors face-to-face is to increase sales by convincing doctors to prescribe drugs off-label for unapproved uses, by saying whatever it takes to achieve that goal.
A May 2006, study titled, “Turning Medicine Into Snake Oil,” analyzed FDA warning letters sent to drug […]
What 4 Christian sex therapists wish you knew.
“Welcome to Atlanta!” Michael Sytsma, one of the Christian sex therapists I’d flown in to interview, greeted me at the airport, holding out a small, white paper bag.
“Thanks,” I said, noticing that wrapped delicately within the folds of fire-engine red tissue paper was a white feather.
“That’s for you […]
A new patch for women who have lost their sex drive will become available on the NHS this week.
Its makers say Intrinsa could be the female Viagra - the anti-impotence drug that has transformed the sex lives of hundreds of thousands of men.
The female aphrodisiac will initially only be available on prescription for post-menopausal women […]
Testing for the prostate cancer gene 3 (PCA3) in urine may improve screening for prostate cancer, new research suggests.
Screening for prostate cancer usually involves measuring a protein in the blood called prostate specific antigen or PSA. High PSA levels suggest that cancer may be present and a biopsy is then performed to confirm the diagnosis.
Unfortunately, […]
Another 12 countries have been certified free of guinea worm and the world could be free of the parasitic disease within two years, the United Nations health agency said on Tuesday.
While some 3 million people suffered from the blight in the early 1980s, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it now affects about 25,000 people […]
Three Indonesians died of bird flu, the country’s health minister said today, raising the country’s death toll to 69.
“Local tests for three patients came back positive,’’ Health Minister Siti Fadiliah Supari said.
A 22-year-old woman died Saturday in the Southern Sumatra city Palembang, followed by a 15-year-old boy Sunday in the West Java town Bandung and […]
An experimental treatment developed by Medicines Co. did a better job controlling blood pressure during surgery than some standard treatments, according to two studies released on Tuesday.
Researchers compared the investigational therapy, called clevidipine or Cleviprex, with a standard cocktail of drug treatments in three separate studies. In two of the trials, the Medicines Co. drug […]
Patients with a specific gene variation for hereditary hemochromatosis, an autosomal recessive disease associated with increased iron accumulation, have more than double the risk of stroke, new research suggests.
Hemochromatosis affects how the body metabolizes iron, which results an iron build-up in the liver. Without treatment, the condition causes liver enlargement that can lead to cirrhosis […]
NSW Health is bracing for a potential outbreak of Hepatitis A after a food handler in a Sydney sushi store was diagnosed with the virus.
Health officials said hundreds of diners who ate food from the Sushi from Xanadu outlet in Birkenhead Point Shopping Centre, in Sydney’s inner-west, on March 11, 12, 17 and 18 could […]
