Stress Management and Students
February 5, 2012 – 11:00 pm | No Comment
Being a student is something that most of us would identify with. Each one of us is a student in our own way. At every step in our life we learn something, and get to know some of the best ways we can make our life better. Yet there are cases where the students get overly stressed and make things difficult not only for themselves but also for others. This happens due to various factors and particularly  [...]

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FDA Caveats on Long-Acting Asthma Inhalers
February 24, 2010 – 3:48 am | No Comment
FDA Caveats on Long-Acting Asthma Inhalers
All those suffering from asthma and using long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) asthma inhalers for treating asthma signs could be facing more detrimental outcome rather than benefits. Lately, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made an announcement regarding the new-fangled safety caveats mentioning that the drugs must not be employed on their own by kids or grownups. FDA states that it would need manufacturing companies include further caveats on their product labelling and requesting physicians and patients for scaling back general usage of the medications. Director, FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Dr. Janet Woodcock stated that asthmatic patients must endeavour to acquire solely a solo-agent steroid inhaler medication and not be trying to obtain combination drugs along with LABA except when it is truly an urgent requirement. FDA has pointed out that LABAs place asthmatic persons at greater chances of acute, deteriorating signs often leading to greater rates of  [...]