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In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety and proper doses.
The European Medicines Agency, the EU's top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they'll start using the vaccine after it's greenlighted - possibly within weeks.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization's flu chief, warned about the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe's approach outright.
"One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines," he said Friday. "There are certain areas where you can make economies, perhaps, but certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies."
The WHO's experts are assured; that the pandemic of a swine flu will touch all countries of the world is only a matter of time.
At the same time the first tests of a new vaccine against a swine flu on volunteers have begin in Australia on Wednesday, on July, 22nd. As the representative of Australian pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd informs, 240 volunteers from 18 till 64 years were recruited to testing.

Two injections of a vaccine within three weeks will be given to participants of tests, and then patients will pass regular analyses of blood. So physicians can define whether an organism develops the suitable immune answer to a virus. According to the physicians, specific virus A/H1N1 will demand a double dose of a vaccine, that guarantee the sufficient level of the immune answer with more probability

Everyone wants to keep fit and healthy, young and beautiful. We try sports, different diets and, of course, diet pills. But with diet pills we have got a huge problem: which pills to choose. We start asking our friends and relatives, we consult our physicians. Our behavior and our motives are easily understandable – we do not want to cause any damage to our health, we want to be fit and stay healthy. Nobody wants to be slim and at the same time to suffer from kidney or digestion problems. That is why it is so important to choose and buy the right diet pills. The pills that will keep you fit and that will not bring any harm to your health. How can one find out which diet pills to choose? The right answer is: to go to Diet Research. The Diet Research specialists have already consulted various medicine and diet experts, have checked the ingredients of different diet pills, and have researched many well-known medical journals in order to help you make the right choice and find your perfect diet pill.

Healthy food is a way to a beautiful skin. The main thing here is harmony and the balanced food. No diet can return the beauty to a skin or support it. Therefore all fashionable diets built on preference of one product more than the others can deprive of you the major nutrients.

Moreover the most dangerous mistakes concerning influence of some products on a skin health have strongly taken roots in our consciousness. So for example representation about that the sweets or fat food cause occurrence of acne is absolutely erroneous. Also wrong to think that fat and fried food by all means lead to increase of level of fat content of a skin or hair. Nobody can guarantee that your skin will become faultlessly beautiful, clean and velvety, if you will eat exclusively cucumbers, grapes, carrot juice and green vegetables. It is important to remember that beauty of a skin defines, first of all, of the genetics, and your gastronomic predilections are not so important, as it is accepted to think. However, if in your diet there are no some major nutrients, you can't avoid problems with a skin.
Vitamins and minerals
Vitamin A is necessary for a skin and eyes health. The best sources of vitamin A: cod-liver oil, carrots, spinach, milk and an egg yolk. If in your diet there is deficit of vitamin A, the skin becomes dry and brakes out in pimples. But you need not also to abuse vitamin A. It causes skin roughness and dryness, a hair fall, increase of sensitivity of lips.

Sensitivity and cracking of lips also arises at deficiency of vitamin B. Vitamin B sources: meat, milk, green vegetables, bean and porridges.
Vitamin C is the major component necessary for health of a skin. Vitamin C contains in all citrus fruits.
Except vitamins, the food also should include minerals.
Iron promotes blood improvement therefore the skin gets a healthy flushes and light.
Iron source - green vegetables, fruit and meat.
Zinc is also very important for skin health .Zinc sours are wheat bran, beef liver, dry lens.

Skin beauty and drinks
Many drinks can do harm to a skin. Alcohol and coffee cause expansion of the small blood vessels located under a skin. Result is the reddening of a skin. Daily use of alcohol causes constant expansion of vessels that leads to occurrence not aesthetic reticulum under a skin. Occurrence of such reticulum can be caused by a number of other reasons: genetics, solar beams, spicy food and action of extreme temperatures.

Food allergy and skin diseases
A food plays a main role in case of two serious skin illnesses - urticaria and eczema.
More often allergic reactions cause milk, eggs and preserved food.

Paracetamol have got to the list of the preparations which release can be shortly forbidden or limited in the USA. The federal expert group has recommended to Food and Drag Administration (FDA) of USA to forbid application of the preparations containing a combination of paracetamol and narcotic analgesics in the country.

More than 100 million such medicines itimes are prescribed annually in the USA. Paracetamol overdose is the leading reason of irreversible damage of a liver. It becomes the reason of 42 thousand hospitalizations and more than 400 fatal cases in the USA annually.
Experts also have recommended FDA to lower the maximum dose of paracetamol in over the counter preparations, such as, Panadol, Theraflu and others, from 500 to 325 milligram's, and to establish the maximum daily dose within 4 000 milligram's. Thus the consultative group has voted against limiting of quantity of tablets of paracetamol in one packing.
According to law FDA is not obliged to follow recommendations of expert group, however in most cases they are carried out, so in the near future it is necessary to expect interdictions and restrictions.
Paracetamol is extremely popular in the USA - in 2005 in the country has been sold 28 billion tablets containing it, that is just about of one dose for four days on each citizen of the country.