GLG News by Acupuncture Providers (US)

This drug in the form of a patch will solve one problem of vaccination for the Pandemic Flu; that is the two-step process. It also may have impact on the autistic concerns associated with immunizations that are administered containing small amounts of mercury.

This is a promising shift of money into licensing a drug may be a helpful tool to abate the symptoms. Patient education is an essential component in the treatment of this disease. In a clinical research study in 1999, the use of acupuncture, herbal medicine and patient education were the best...

This is a timely article that hopefully will receive proper attention by policy makers in communities around the US and for that matter globally. Other regions in the US have seen similar conditions. In Nevada in 2005, parties requiring ambulance services were not 'picked up' even in the situation...

Patients with rare malignancies, especially those with already metastatic diseases, are being treated with novel oncologic agents.  However, as is being seen with many drugs, the hemodynamic consequences of these agents, in many cases a rise in blood pressure, may lead to cardiovascular consequences. ...

The Food and Drug Agency (FDA) of the United States may not be trained, staffed, or budgeted to oversee medicinal production overseas. The World Health Organization (WHO) with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) formed a Global Food Standards body, Codex Alimentarius to have oversight...

Challenges to pharmaceutical patents prior to the "official" expiration of the patent are proliferating; if they are allowed to stand, that is, if the "original" patent is successfully voided one of the crucial financial incentives to novel pharmaceutical research will be abridged and the "profit" motive...

The meta-analysis of the rimonabant trials points to an increase in psychiatric diagnoses. What is missing in this report is the numberical and statistical significance of the findings.  This debate needs more rigor; the type of rigor that is applied to cardiac endpoints, needs to be applied here. ...

Ask any patient with diabetes what they want for a therapeutic option and they'll tell you non-injectable insulin.  They understand that all the other medications are a poor substitution for the replacement of pancreatic insulin and they are tired of taking multiple pills each day. So why did...

The failure of drug eluting stents in the eyes of the public and in the medical community is probably not a failure of the device as much as a failure of patient managment.  It is clear that atherothrombotic vascular disease requires a life-long commitment to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood...

The approval of Galvus in Europe increases the pressure on the FDA to approve its use in the United Status.