Celebrex - Vioxx - the battle continues

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Text of e-mail sent by Skip Weber: I understand that the gap between celebrex and vioxx is widening again. I have been told that scripts are now 56% to 44% and total market share over the last month is 64% to 36%.

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Aids: India & Southern Africa

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India AIDS situation The following facts are based on a recent three city tour of India and participation in the World Economic Forum Southern Africa Economic Summit in May 1997.

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The Rising Toll of Aids

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I spoke myself to a Zimbabwe AIDS specialist recently who says in one area 60% of all pregnant women are now infected with HIV. It is not enough just to look at seroprevalence rates however. Take a group of 100 college leavers in Uganda, aged 22. Their seroprevalence rate is falling because of behaviour change but may still be 20% in some groups. That means one in five will probably be dead in 5-10 years. However, the even bigger question is what the LIFETIME seroprevalence rate will be? 

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Viagra - Pills for impotence

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Recent news and information on treatment for erectile dysfunction

This is an archive page. For June 2000 onwards go here.

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Swine Flu Virus Death toll less than feared. Possible global pandemic?

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Death toll less then feared from Swine flu virus - outbreak in Mexico, US, Canada and ? UK. Risk of global pandemic? Need for urgent government action, strict isolation (gurantine) and rapid treatment plus effective contact tracing. Symptoms of Swine flu Virus. Treatment of Swine Flu Virus. Public health measures. Lessons from Sars which killed 860 our of only 8600 cases and caused chaos with billions lost in SE Asia economy, global impact on travel and tourism, and ... ...

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AIDS Crisis in India

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The following was written after consultation meetings with NGOs in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi and Manipur, March 1997, including visits to the sick and dying in rural areas and discussions with commercial sex workers.

India is about to be hit by the world's worst AIDS epidemic, as a country of almost a billion people. Soon there could be more people infected there with HIV than in the whole of Africa today, more cases perhaps by 2005 than the whole world has today. While many industrialised nations have chosen to ignore the devastation in Africa, the unfolding catastrophe in the Far East is already touching many other nations. It will have an obvious and significant effect on the world economy, threatening tiger economies and discouraging investment, with a heavy toll on the health of the workforce.

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The Truth about Foot and Mouth

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Foot and Mouth risk from deliberate spread? -  economic terrorism risk using Foot and Mouth in animals as a biological weapon. Vaccination against Foot and Mouth urgently needed. 

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AIDS treatment - HIV protease inhibitors - not a cure

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AIDS - HIV Protease inhibitors promise new hope.

HIV protease inhibitors offer new hope of a combined approach to HIV infection. Results in some cases have been spectacular with undetectable levels of HIV achieved for long periods. This has raised talk of perhaps even being able to eradicate HIV altogether, based on the fact that many infected cells have a limited life-span. By preventing viral replication one could in theory reach a situation where all infected cells had died.

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Truth about Viagra Blindness

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Impotence pill - side effects: what is the risk of blindness or death

23 million men have used Viagra since 1988, including 900,000 in the UK. Although few serious side effects have been seen, recent reports (2005) suggest a possible risk of blindness from non-arteritic ischaemic optic neuropathy. This is a rare condition in which blood supply is reduced to the optic nerve causing permanent nerve damage, and research workers at the University of Minnesota believe they have detected a cluster of cases of blindness from this cause in men who have taken Viagra.

The US Food and Drug Administration has also identified 50 men with blindness who have taken Viagra, but who also had diabetes and heart disease. However these problems with blindness need to be seen in the context of 23 million users, most of which have experienced significant benefit to their sex lives, and the fact that blindness is a known risk in those with both diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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AIDS Update - latest figures and AIDS video

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Most of the figures are from UNAIDS or other official sources including reliable in-country surveys. See also video.

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Aids Toll Accumulates

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AIDS in AFRICA - African AIDS toll rising...

AIDS prevention works - we can stop the spread of HIV - lessons from Uganda - Video

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AIDS in Africa

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AIDS in Africa. How to stop AIDS in Africa. The truth about AIDS in Africa. The History of AIDS in Africa. Huge number of useful links on AIDS in Africa. Economic impact of AIDS in Africa. Orphans and HIV treaments. Read on....

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AIDS: Don't Die of Confusion

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When it seems that every newspaper report on AIDS is saying something different it is hardly surprising that our patients are confused about AIDS. They could be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that HIV is harmless, heterosexual AIDS is a myth, that a cure or vaccine is just around the corner and that promiscuity is safe. (article for Nucleus, Christian Medical Fellowship 1994).

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IVF latest news - summary of 100,000 publications

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Hundreds of IVF news articles and research papers summarised.  The truth about IVF.  IVF and success rates  IVF results and side effects?  IVF treatments, clinics, doctors?  designer babies and IVF, sex selection, gene screening, implantation rates for IVF etc.  Can IVF ensure a child is born healthy?  Can a woman without a womb use IVF to have children? Can women plan pregnancies decades in advance using IVF?  Can we have babies without sex? Summary of some of 2625 IVF articles and papers in a search of 100,000 publications.

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Anthrax

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Mutant superbugs, viruses, plague - video / pictures. What are germ weapons eg anthrax? Threat from chemical weapons and biological agents as weapons of mass destruction.

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