FDA warns on primate xenotransplants

WHO warns over complacency as targets on Ebola are met.

An official leading the World Health Organization’s response to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa has warned against complacency as the targets set by the United Nations for safe burial and isolation are met. At the end of October the UN’s Mission for Ebola Emergency Response set two targets to be met by 1 December—that 70% of burials took place in a safe and dignified manner a...

WHO warns European countries to be on alert for Zika.

European countries need to be on the alert for the Zika virus and act to control it now, the World Health Organization has urged. In a statement released on 3 February Zsuzsanna Jakab,WHO’s regional director for Europe, said that countries should take urgent action to control populations of mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, enhance surveillance and detection, step up research and inform people at ...

[U.S. warns on some use of anti-AIDS drug].

The new way with nevirapine was reported to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus (HIV) that also is less costly and markedly more effective than the standard therapy with AZT in the third world. The more practical therapy comes from substituting one marketed drug, nevirapine, for the standard drug, AZT. It was proposed that widescale use of nevirapine in developing countries c...

UK bans, Health Canada warns about antidepressants.

Six months after the UK banned antidepressant drugs for children, Health Canada has issued a warning that using 7 of the medications may make patients worse. Patients of all ages taking flu-voxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), mir-tazapine (Remeron), fluoxetine (Prozac) and citalopram (Celexa), as well as those taking bupropion as an antidepressant (Wellbutrin) or smoking ...

CMPA warns doctors of risks associated with prescribing marijuana.