France’s annual list of medicines to avoid has been published, with 88 of those on the new list still available to buy in France. Medical review Prescrire publishes an updated list every year. The new ...

Who doesn’t have a wafer lying around at the bottom of their toiletry bag? Bright pink phloroglucinol dragees are prescribed for stomach aches, particularly to relieve menstrual pain. Marketed in ...

The effectiveness of a popular drug used in France for period and stomach pain is being questioned after a specialist queried its scientific basis in a new book. Spasfon is a popular anti-spasm ...

1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, National Hospital of Donka/CHU, Conakry, Guinea. 2 Faculty of Science and Technology, University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea. Acute alithiasic ...

The 34-2 super middleweight Jose Uzcategui squared off against the 13-0 Vladimir Shishkin on the Michel Rivera-Frank Marin undercard Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The fight was a ...

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In a recent report on regulated professions in France, the General Inspection of Finance (GIF) recommends that pharmacies should no longer have a monopoly on the sale of certain drugs. GIF wants to ...

Switzerland's Acino Pharma has agreed to buy Cephalon's combined Middle East and African business in a transaction worth approximately EUR 80 million ($110 million). Acino will pay 60 million Euro ...

Switzerland-based generic and branded drugmaker Acino (SIX: ACIN) says it has reached agreement to acquire the combined Middle East and African business of US biotech firm Cephalon, which just this ...

Shares in Acino have shot up after the Swiss drugmaker said it is to buy the Middle East and African business of Cephalon, which has itself just been acquired by Teva. Shares in Acino have shot up ...

Ninety seven normal primiparae with cervical edema were randomly divided into Spasfon group (group A, n = 46) and atropine group (group B, n = 51) when the cervix dilated 2 - 3 cm. Group A was given ...