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Uganda: Acupuncture - Needle Pricks to Relieve Pain?
AS a child, the whole hospital had to be mobilised to hold me before a nurse could inject me. I grew up fearing all needle piercing and shuddering at seeing someone else being pricked. That was until I came across a Chinese clinic that uses needles to relieve pain! The process is called acupuncture. Dr Liu Dezhog of the Chinese clinic near Kisementi in Kamwokya offered to illustrate how it works. I watched him insert several needles into the skin of his nurse to the depth of a few millimetres. .
Cipher Pharmaceuticals's Response To Approvable Letter For CIP ...
Announced that its response to the approvable letter for CIP-ISOTRETINOIN, an innovative formulation of the acne medication isotretinoin, has been accepted as a complete, Class 2 response and will be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The action date under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) is April 27, 2007. MISSISSAUGA, Canada | Jan 17, 2006 | Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that its response to the approvable letter for CIP-ISOTRETINOIN, an innovative formulation of the acne medication isotretinoin, has been accepted as a complete, Class 2 response and will be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The action date under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) is April 27, 2007.Cipher received the approvable letter for CIP-ISOTRETINOIN in May 2006, following submission of its New Drug Application in June 2005.About CIP-ISOTRETINOINCIP-ISOTRETINOIN, which is based on the Lidose(R) drug delivery platform, is used in the treatment of severe, recalcitrant nodular acne.
Galderma USA Introduces New Kit For Rosacea Treatment
FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Galderma Laboratories, L.P. today announced the availability of a new MetroGel(R) 1% Kit for the topical treatment of the inflammatory lesions of rosacea. The new kit contains a 60 gm tube of the leading topical prescription treatment for Rosacea, MetroGel(R) (metronidazole) Topical Gel, 1%. Also included in the kit is a complimentary 4 fl. oz. bottle of Cetaphil(R) Gentle Skin Cleanser, the number-one skin cleanser recommended by dermatologists, plus a patient education brochure with information about rosacea trigger factors, symptoms and treatment. The brochure contains a $2.00-off coupon for future purchases of Cetaphil(R) brand cleansers and moisturizers. MetroGel(R) 1% Kit, with its additional contents, is the same cost as a regular 60gm tube of MetroGel(R) 1%, and the MetroGel(R) 1% Kit is currently available to rosacea patients in pharmacies nationwide.
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