Medicines

Alternative Medicine
... Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but is not based on evidence gathered with the scientific method ... Alternative medicine is based on tradition, belief in supernatural energies, pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, or fraud ... Alternative medicine is sometimes grouped with complementary medicine which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under ...

Folk Medicine - Safety Concerns
... Although over 100 countries have regulations on folk medicines there are still some risks associated with the use of them, especially when they are used without ... It is often assumed that because the medicines are herbal or natural, that they are completely safe ... One type of folk medicine commonly used along with Ayurvedic medicine is Rasa Shastra and practice involves the use of heavy metals in herbal remedies ...

Department Of Essential Drugs And Medicines
... The mission of the Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines of the World Health Organization is "to help save lives and improve health by closing the huge gap between the potential that essential drugs have to offer ...

Veterinary Medicines Directorate - Work of VMD
... of Marketing Authorisations pharmacovigilance for veterinary medicines and the licensing and inspection of manufacturers and wholesale dealers of ... developing and implementing new policy/legislation on all aspects of veterinary medicines ... Day-to-day management of the veterinary medicines (R D) programme on behalf of the Policy customer (Animal Health and Welfare Directorate, Defra) – we work ...

Pseudoephedrine - National Legislation - Australia
... have been rescheduled as either "Pharmacist Only Medicines" (Schedule 3) or "Prescription Only Medicines" (Schedule 4), depending on the amount of pseudoephedrine in the product ... A Pharmacist Only Medicine may only be sold to the public if a pharmacist is directly involved in the transaction ... These medicines must be kept behind the counter, away from public access ...