What is pain? Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Are there different types of pain? Pain can be differentiated according to duration and intensity. Acute pain has a short and limited duration of less than 1 week. Chronic pain lasts longer than 3 months. Since pain [...]
Archive | October 2011
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The form in which you take your nutritional supplements matters. If you knew the facts about supplements, it would change the way you look at them. So let’s look at why many vitamins and minerals taken today are not as effective as they should be…. If you knew the facts, you would only take a [...]
Oh So Heavenly Positively Pink range
The Oh So Heavenly Positively Pink collection is a dedicated breast cancer support range whereby varying amounts between R0.50 to R1.00 per product are donated to the Look Good…Feel Better Foundation for every Positively Pink product that is purchased. Since the launch of this range, we have donated R200 000 to this worthy cause and we [...]
Babaderm
New on the shelves this month is Babaderm, a natural (Paraben-free, SLES-free), biologically sensitive probiotic-based baby care range of skin and hair products, clinically proven to keep the skin balanced and germ-free. Suitable for all skin types – not only for babies, the product combines the very latest in science and nature with the patented [...]
New nasal gel stops nosebleeds
Nosebleeds can happen at the most inconvenient times. They can also be embarrassing and messy. Actor Pharma (Pty) Ltd is pleased to introduce yet another truly innovative OTC product to the South African market in August 2011 with new Nozohaem™ Nasal Gel. Nozohaem™ Nasal Gel is a convenient, easy-to-use, self-administered gel that stops nosebleeds. Some [...]
Industry news – Adcock Ingram ARVs new packaging
A visual created by ODC (Origin Design Centre) as part of the process of delivering new packing for Adcock Ingram’s anti-retroviral product range so enthused the pharmaceutical giant that it adopted it across all its ARV communication material. Inspired by the compassion with which the Adcock Ingram ARV team approaches its tasks on a daily [...]
Putting an end to pain
Pain is the world’s number one medical symptom. Everyone experiences physical pain at some point in their lives. Pain can signal anything from a heart attack to a stubbed toe, making it one of the trickiest symptoms to manage. Identifying an emergency Should you call 911? People don’t always think their pain is serious enough [...]
Nutraceuticals – Foodstufs that provide health benefits
Back in 400 B.C. when the ‘Father of Medicine’, Hippocrates, came up with the iconic phrase “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”, he could never have imagined that the synergy of food and medicine would evolve into a multi-billion dollar global market by the 21st century. As the worldwide trend for [...]
Worms
About 25% of all the people on earth are infested by various kinds of worms (helminths). Worm infections are the most prevalent infections in the world. The World Bank estimates that 100 million people may experience stunting or wasting as a result of worm infestation. Because of their high mobility and lower standards of hygiene, [...]
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