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Leading Manufacturer Warns Against Using Potentially Toxic Plastic Bottles For Packaging OTC Medicines
When SiCap Industries launched Sinus Buster, the world's first natural capsaicin nasal spray in 2003, the product line featured plastic bottles commonly used in most popular over the counter nasal sprays. In 2005, the company switched to glass bottles due to concerns over the potential dangers of toxic leaching from plastic containers. The company's founder believes it was a necessary move to ensure consumer safety and the integrity of the natural medicine industry. As recent studies show toxic leaching to be a real problem, SiCap is announcing an immediate switch to glass bottles for their oral products; Pepper Boost and Pepper Slim.

Coming To Terms With Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile Dysfunction has many hidden effects on your mind and body that reach far beyond problems with achieving an erection. Impotence can lead to emotional problems. Depressions, sadness, anger, low self esteem, and anxiety are all common with erectile dysfunction patients.

Viagra: Time to Separate Reality from Hype:
According to the u.s. Food and Drug Administration: men taking any of three erectile dysfunction drugs -- Viagra, Levitra or Cialis -- may be at increased risk for sudden hearing loss, prompting Food and Drug Administration officials to require label changes for the medications.

Acomplia was Riding Out to Save Me
The article introduces the reader to a chronic smoker with a drinking problem who had a heart attack in 2006, some two months before the launch of Acomplia. He had a stent and the promise of counselling. His struggle with addiction was just beginning.

Cialis: For successful sexual intercourse
Think about your 20 years back stage, if you are celebrating your 60th birthday, then certainly you would have felt that you don?t have the sex power same as you have now. You want to give a tremendous sexual encounter to your female friend at that moment but you can not, because of erectile dysfunction problem.

The Pharmacy Jobs Market In The UK
The role of the pharmacy in the daily lives of many people throughout the UK is as important as any other consumer institution. After all, the increase in ailments owing to age, lack of exercise, and general poor health means, for many, a regular trip to see the pharmacist. The old pharmacy, where the friendly pharmacist works with you to meet your health needs, has given way to a more bureaucratic system that is effective in dealing with a wide range of customers but lacks the human touch. However, for pharmacists and those graduating with pharmaceutical degrees, this bureaucratisation of the pharmacy means a better jobs market.

Nevada School of Pharmacy: Jobs And Respect, Right Out of School
By now you must have heard on the news how, as an entire generation of baby boomers ages, job opportunities in medical fields has exploded. Perhaps you have even considered going to school and gaining the skills to acquire an awesome job in the healthcare industry.

World Renowned Scientist Dr. Kenneth Blum Explains Why Acomplia (rimonobant) May Result in Greater Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
Salugen, Inc. Gene Pioneer Professor Ken Blum explains how Reward Deficiency Syndrome may be worsened by Acomplia (rimonabant) and how GenoTrim may be used as an alternative.

Erectile Dysfunction ? one of the side effects of High Blood Pressure
Erectile Dysfunction caused by High Blood Pressure? The majority of us know what this means and even those who don?t exactly know the complete technical and medical reasons for the condition know about its implications, or so it would seem.

MEDICINES use and ABUSE
Friends, The study below done a few years ago should scare the socks off us all. We can do much better in this country.

Good Neighbor Pharmacy to Enter NASCAR with Diversified Racing Solutions
Good Neighbor Pharmacy (GNP) is teaming with Diversified Racing Solutions (DRS) to compete initially in NASCAR's Busch Series with a goal of reaching the Sprint Cup Series in 2010. The five year agreement calls for GNP to lend its community pharmacy brand as the DRS flagship sponsor; the venture will be primarily funded by associate sponsor relationships. GNP will also fund country-wide community outreach activities that compliment the racing schedule. Driver and car manufacturer will be announced shortly.

LearnSomething Inc Expands across the Pond -- Launches to UK Pharmacy
LearnSomething, Inc is helping pharmacists in the UK to combat the potential threat of methamphetamine (meth) manufacture using over the counter medicines containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine.

Boots.com Adopts the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Internet Pharmacy Logo
Boots.com is adopting a scheme launched this week by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) to introduce the Internet Pharmacy Logo, which aims to reassure consumers that they are ordering from reputable pharmacy sites.

Clinical Pharmacy: Is There Enough Time to Dedicate to Patient Care? FLAVORx Provides an Efficient and Effective Solution
The push for 'clinical pharmacy' encourages pharmacists to take an active role in patient consultation and drug management programs. However, many pharmacists struggle to find additional time for more extensive patient communication. FLAVORx's efficient program allows pharmacists to spend minimal time while flavoring and provides an effective solution to medication non-compliance in patients.

Baxa Corporation Features Pharmacy Training Programs, Abacus? Software and ValiMed? Medication Validation System at the ASHP Summer Meeting
Baxa Corporation is promoting its industry-leading STAR Center pharmacy training facility, CriticalPoint? online sterile compounding certification training, Abacus TPN ordering and calculation software and the ValiMed System for medication validation at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2007 Summer Meeting and Exhibition beginning today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.