FDA and the Canadian health agency are studying to see if widely used asthma treatment drug Singulair’s usage has suicide as its side effects.

FDA has started to look into the additional side effects of Merck’s Singulair drug for Asthma treatment as reports link suicidal thoughts to Singulair usage.

Canadian press reports that Health Canada is also investigating the side effects of Singulair that reportedly is linked to Suicide.

“Merck said it recently added reports of suicide to Singulair’s label, which already listed suicidal thinking and behaviour as reported side-effects,” writes The Canadian Press.

Merck that manifactures Singulair, in the website related to the asthma treatment drug, reporting about the side effects of Singulair, writing the following:

Important Safety Information About Singulair from Merck

“SINGULAIR will not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. Continue to take your other asthma medicines as prescribed and have fast-acting medication available. For asthma, SINGULAIR should be taken once a day, in the evening as prescribed, whether or not you have asthma symptoms. If your symptoms get worse or you need to increase the use of your rescue inhaler, call your doctor at once.

“Side effects are generally mild and vary by age, and may include headache, ear infection, sore throat, and upper respiratory infection. Check with your doctor if you are pregnant or nursing. SINGULAIR should be taken once a day, as prescribed. SINGULAIR is available by prescription only.

“SINGULAIR has not been studied as a treatment option for both conditions in the same person.”

Singulair asthma treatment drug is Merck’s biggest seller, according to CBS video report on Singulair’s side effects. More than 31 Million prescriptions were filled in USA last year. While FDA says Singulair may have serious side effects, it will take the agency up to nine months to determine if any regulatory action is needed.

In clinical trials of asthma patients, the most common side effects of Singulair were headache, flu, abdominal pain and cough. It has been later recently that Merck updated the information adding possible suicidal thoughs to Singulair’s side effects.

With the Indian University I am adding a few names of foreign University also

• Stanford University [CA]
• Harvard Business School [MA]
• Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University [IL]
• The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• MIT Sloan [MA]

I will try and get more information on these

It is very strange that no body realizes that there are thousand of good institute in India alone which are renowned for their curriculum and technique with which the students are taught. So here i am submitting a list of INSTITUTE RENOWNED FOR MBA

•  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad [IIM A]
• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta [IIM C]
• Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore [IIM B]
• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow [IIM L]
• Indian School of Business, Hyderabad [ISB]

I will continue increasing this list as and when I get time and keep you updates if any one of you know any other add this your self. As awareness is gained by spreading more.

In a sign that Shiv Sena is worried over its former leader Raj Thackeray ‘hijacking’ its ‘Marathi pride’ plank, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has warned that his party will not tolerate workers ‘brought from outside’ for modernisation of Mumbai airport.

“There are going to be one lakh jobs for airport works. If you bring outside workers, then they will be packed off in a parcel and sent back in a cargo plane,” Uddhav said.

“Shiv Sena is not against development…but development should not affect us adversely and destroy families of the workers,” the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief’s cousin said while addressing a large gathering of Bharatiya Kamgar Sena members at the airport on Saturday.

Uddhav said that Mumbai airport has been named after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj after much struggle. “Here, we want to see a Marathi nameplate welcoming those coming to Mumbai,” he said.

He also took a swipe at Raj saying Marathi people know what is original and what is fake. “Marathi people and Shiv Sena have an unbreakable bond… that is why it has upset some people. The events during the last week are an indication,” he said, without naming Raj Thackeray.

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