Near Half of Mental Illness Patients Do Not Take Medication

4 December 2011 Nearly half of the nation's mentally ill patients do not take their prescribed treatment, according to a recent survey released on Friday ahead of yesterday's International Day of Persons with Disabilities. About 45 percent of…

Asia Kids Show AIDS Drugs Resistance

2 December 2011 HONG KONG -- Teenagers in Asia receiving treatment for HIV are showing early signs of osteoporosis and children as young as five are becoming resistant to AIDS drugs, an anti-AIDS group said on Thursday, urging more attention…

Protested against Improperly Adjust the Pharmaceutical Benefit that would Deprive of the Interests o

Pharmaceutical Industries went to the Executive Yuan, and had made solemn protest to the President Wu Den-yih. The 7th reduction of Pharmaceutical Benefit for National Health Insurance may compel about two hundred medicines to withdraw from…

Protested against Improperly Adjust the Pharmaceutical Benefit that would Deprive of the Interests

Pharmaceutical Industries went to the Executive Yuan, and had made solemn protest to the President Wu Den-yih. The 7th reduction of Pharmaceutical Benefit for National Health Insurance may compel about two hundred medicines to withdraw from…

The Legislative Yuan passed Article 19 and 34 of Pharmaceutical Affairs Act in the First Trial

Synchronize with Pharmacists Act to amend that the Pharmacy must sell a certain level of medical equipments. Table.The draft amendment of Article 19 and 34 of Pharmaceutical Affairs Act Article The amended Articlet The current Article…

Medical Students Urge Candidates To Focus on Health

27 October 2011 LONG HOURS: Groups of medical workers said that many of them were forced to work up to 120 hours per week, sometimes with long stretches of 30 hours. Medical students urged the candidates in next year’s presidential election…

Appeal to the Cosmeceutical Entrepreneur for Self-Discipline to Follow the Legislation of Pharmacist

Appeal to the Cosmeceutical Entrepreneur for Self-Discipline to Follow the Legislation of Pharmacists Personally Practice in the Stores! Author/Wen GuoXiong (Chairman of Community Pharmacy Committee) According to the recent report that New Taipei…

Wipe Out Tuberculosis in 2050

The 2011 FIP (international pharmaceutical federation) was held in Indian, which published about 400 articles. The most attractive issue was how to globally fight against tuberculosis and the roles that pharmacists should performed. About 900…

Chemo Appears Safe in Pregnancy: Research

STOCKHOLM--Treating pregnant cancer patients with powerful chemotherapy drugs appears not to harm their unborn children, but pre-term delivery to avoid subjecting them to chemotherapy does, according to a study by cancer experts on Tuesday.…

Daily Aspirin Usage Tied To Risk Of Vision Loss: Study

Reuters--Seniors who take aspirin daily are twice as likely to have late stage macular degeneration, an age-related loss of vision, than people who never take the pain reliever, according to a European study. The data does not show that aspirin…