But it provides basic services like generic antibiotics, rehydration fluids for diarrhea, malaria medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets and, beginning soon, AIDS drugs.
Reported side effects to date include headache and coldlike symptoms for both drugs, diarrhea for Merck's entry and dizziness for Novartis'.
Lotronex was for preventing diarrhea, not constipation, but the doctors still may be shy about prescribing Zelnorm.
But after a single diet therapy that he opted for the diarrhea stopped.
Dr. HERMIETTA EDENBURG (Physician, Doctors Without Borders Hospital, Dubea, Democratic Republic of Congo): The history is that there is diarrhea for a couple of days, so what happens is, in that she is severely dehydrated, and she came in in a really bad state with hardly no pulse or heart action anymore, because of the dehydration.
The most widespread killer diseases in Africa are Pneumonia, Malaria and Diarrhea, which together account for 44% of all deaths.
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But just one diarrhea accident can cause an infection for anyone who gets a mouth full of pool water.
Side effects were benign for a cancer drug, with the most common being severe diarrhea and rashes on the hands and feet.
GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ), the world's second-biggest drugmaker, developed a medicine called Lotronex that treated IBS marked by diarrhea, but the drug was withdrawn from the market for safety reasons.
But he says Januvia is an important option for diabetes patients who cannot tolerate existing medicines because of side effects like diarrhea, weight gain and swelling.
And number two, as you said, they're everyday illnesses that we take for granted because, you know, if one of our kids have diarrhea, we just go to CVS and get something.
The second group of patients, categorized as having nonceliac gluten sensitivity, have the same symptoms of abdominal pain, bloating, gas and diarrhea, but do not have antibodies or the genetic predisposition for celiac disease.
Over several hours of testimony an executive from Ohio's Department of Agriculture recounted a 2004 visit to Ohio Fresh Eggs, the nation's seventh-largest producer, where he saw hens afflicted with diarrhea and giant piles of wet manure, a breeding ground for maggots.
She was vomiting, had bad diarrhea and weighed just over 8 pounds, 40% the normal weight for a 1-year-old.
Besides an acne-like rash and diarrhea, there were relatively few side effects--another thrilling find for doctors and patients alike, given the devastating side effects of chemo (hair loss, severe nausea, damage to the immune system).
Second, by scaling up cost-effective solutions to the five most important causes of deaths for children under the age of five: pneumonia, pre-term birth complications, diarrhea, intra-partum-related events and malaria.
For years, Wesdorp says, Dutch consumers disdained more healthful vegetable oil because they mistakenly believed it caused diarrhea.
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