Personal care products also known as toiletries, refer to the industry which manufactures consumer products used in personal beautification and hygiene. Personal care products include cosmetics, and products meant for feminine hygiene. There's a slight difference between personal hygienic products and cosmetics, as cosmetics are specially meant to be used...
The term pharmaceuticals is derived from “pharmaceuticus” (Latin) and “pharmaceutikos” (Greek) and implies “to administer medicines.” In the modern usage of the word, pharmaceutical drugs are substances used to diagnose, prevent or treatment abnormal medical conditions and diseases, viz. pain, malaria, anxiety, etc. Pharmaceuticals are classified in several ways, based...
Alternative medicine refers to any healing practice that falls outside the scope of conventional medicine. Some examples include naturopathy, chiropractic, herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, hypnosis, bodywork, homeopathy and diet-based therapies and many other practices. A related term called complementary medicine refers to the same set of...
Pharmaceutical raw materials are substances, chemicals, extracts, etc, which are the basis of manufacturing of pharmaceutical drugs. While some of these substances are derived from natural sources as in the case of vegetable ingredients like Phytopharmaka, others are artificially manufactured through regulated chemical processes. Of late however, many of the...
As complementary and alternative medicines gain popularity around the world, researches studying the effects of non-conventional remedies on many diseases are also on the rise. Consequently, many studies assessing the efficacy of dietary supplements on diseases have also been published off late.Dietary supplements are formulations that are used to provide...
Some of the deadliest diseases afflicting mankind today are of viral origin, recently a headway made by a young scientist to understand viral invasion opens up new vistas for developing antiviral drugs. Naama Elefant, a researcher at the Hebrew University analyzed the function of microRNAs that led to the discovery.Viruses...
Counterfeit drugs can not only kill those who consume them, but they can also cost quite a fortune to the pharmaceutical industry. However, alertness and prudent action on the part of those who deal in pharmaceutical drugs such as importers, wholesalers and retailers can prevent supplies of counterfeit drugs from...
The Netherlands based Access to Medicine Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization has published its ratings differentiating how the world's largest drug manufacturers stand in comparison to each other, based on their efforts to provide people in low-income countries better access to affordable drugs and vaccines.Carried out in consultation with 12...
Each year in the US about 106,000 people die from prescription drugs, out of all the 783,936 deaths due to medical mistakes. The damages caused by the side effects of drugs result in exorbitant costs in terms of death and trauma for the consumers and huge losses to the pharmaceutical...
In the previous article, we had published the first part of the 42 Fruitful Tips To Clean Indoor Air! As promised we now publish the second and the remaining 21 tips that you can employ to make indoor air of your house or your office. Here they are for...
