Drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), popular for their breakthrough anti-obesity medicine Alli pills, has teamed up with eBay to ban online auctions selling counterfeit versions of its Alli weight loss drug. Early January of this year, it was discovered that some sellers sold fake containers of Alli. FDA, in response, has provided the public pointers on how to distinguish the fake from the genuine. The two companies are also running an operation to caution consumers about the counterfeit products sold on online auction web pages other than eBay. Jack Christin, eBay’s associate general...

More than 25% of the American populace suffer insomnia for various reasons. Sufferers filled over 50 million prescriptions for sleeping medications in 2009. Sleeping pills don’t actually solve a person’s chronic problem. Some specialists even said they’re not worth taking at all. With the advances of technology, insomniacs can now fight this issue without taking medications by enrolling at an online sleeping program developed by sleep expert Dr. Gregg Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs from the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has offered this sleeping alternative called...

Johnson & Johnson is a multi-national, American pharmaceutical company that is engaged in research and development, production and sale of a wide array of pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and consumer products across the globe. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and as such, is listed among the Fortune 500 companies. The company’s headquarters can be found in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States. It has an extensive network of 250 subsidiary companies that operate in 57 countries with over 115,000 people in its workforce. It products are...

A recent study suggests that expecting parents who often converse in two languages is likely to encourage the baby to tune into both languages after his/her birth. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in France as well as a group of psychological scientists from the University of British Columbia in Canada has observed the sucking reflexes of several newly born babies of mothers speaking in monolingual English as well as of mothers who are speaking in both English and Tagalog, the native language of Filipinos. According to the researchers, the sucking behavior of these...

Pfizer Incorporated is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on research, development and production and sales of prescription medicines for both humans and animals around the world. It is currently the number one pharmaceutical company in the world in terms of sales. This New York City-based company has its main research facility in Groton, Connecticut. The company has a wide range of pharmaceutical products that it offers to customers, such as Lipitor, which is used to lower blood cholesterol levels; Lyrica, which treats neuropathic pain; Celebrex, which cures arthritis, inflammation, and...

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a diversified health and well-being company in the United States. It is a managed health care and health insurance company that provides a wide array of consumer-oriented health insurance plans and services under seven operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, OptumHealth, Ingenix, Uniprise, and Prescription Solutions. Through its broad network of subsidiaries and divisions, UnitedHealth Group also offers administrative and management services, non-employer based insurance products for individuals, network-based health and well-being...

A tummy tuck, otherwise known as an abdominal reduction surgery or abdominoplasty, is a major surgical method for smoothing and flattening the stomach by taking out excess skin and fat, leaving the muscles of the abdominal wall tightened. The procedure usually lasts about two to five hours and may have temporary side effects such as soreness, swelling and numbness of the abdominal skin. Since it is a major surgery, initial recovery might take two to four weeks. You can do strenuous activities in four to six weeks. However, the flattening and fading of the scars may take a few months to a few...