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FDA Says Consumers Continue to Buy Risky Drugs Online
• Drug News • Dec 01 07
A yearlong U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation into drugs mailed to the United States from foreign countries suggests that consumers may be…
FDA Finds Consumers Continue to Buy Potentially Risky Drugs Over the Internet
• Drug News • Dec 01 07
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to warn the American public about the dangers of buying medications over the Internet.
New data collected…
Use Caution Buying Medical Products Online
• Drug News • Dec 01 07
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Drug maker packs red-wine-like compound in pill
• Drug News • Nov 29 07
New compounds that act like the red wine ingredient resveratrol may offer a new formula for type 2 diabetes drugs and other age-related…
Strong Drugs without the Addiction
• Drug Abuse • • Drug News • Nov 19 07
Two University of Adelaide pharmacologists working with one the world’s leading neuroscientists have helped pave the way for the development of new pain-killing drugs…
Forteo’s Bone-Building Power Shown In Arthritis Patients
• Arthritis • • Drug News • Nov 15 07
The osteoporosis drug Forteo works better than Fosamax to strengthen bones in arthritis patients with prednisone-induced osteoporosis, according to a new study from a…
Antibiotic That Appears To Control Phobias May Also Be Useful In Treating Addiction
• Drug News • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 07 07
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory provide further evidence that a drug known as D-cycloserine could play a role in…
How to Prevent Morphine ‘Tolerance’
• Drug News • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 01 07
Tolerance to the pain-relieving effects of morphine – which builds rapidly with prolonged use – can be prevented by blocking a key substance that’s…
Anti-Hypertensive Drugs May Help Prevent and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
• Brain • • Drug News • • Neurology • Oct 26 07
A new study has identified commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of hypertension may be capable of preventing Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive deterioration.
The…
FDA OK’s meningitis vaccine for young children
• Drug News • Oct 19 07
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the vaccination of children for bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly neurological inflammatory infection.
The FDA…
Oral Antibiotics Effective to Treat Severe Urinary Tract Infections
• Drug News • • Urine Problems • Oct 17 07
Although doctors routinely use IV antibiotics to cure patients with severe urinary tract infections (UTI), a new review from suggests that oral antibiotics work…
Cautious Optimism for New Alzheimer’s Medications
• Drug News • • Neurology • Oct 09 07
Alzheimer’s disease takes a long time to develop, which suggests that it may be possible to design drugs that work early in the disease…
Anti-Depressant Drugs Can Double Risk of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Drug News • • Surgery • Oct 08 07
New research shows that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a group of drugs commonly used to treat depression, may double the risk of gastrointestinal…
Mixing large doses of both acetaminophen painkiller and caffeine may increase risk of liver damage
• Drug News • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 26 07
Consuming large amounts of caffeine while taking acetaminophen, one of the most widely used painkillers in the United States, could potentially cause liver damage,…
Nosespray Vaccine Using Aloe Vera Has Exciting Potential
• Drug News • • Flu • • Infections • Sep 26 07
Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly…
U.S. Adults Spent More on Lipitor in 2004 than Any Other Drug
• Drug News • • Public Health • Sep 24 07
With a total nearly $5 billion, Lipitor, a cholesterol-reducing drug, ranked first in terms of total spending on prescription medicines by adults ages 18…
New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis
• Drug News • • Infections • Sep 18 07
A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs…
US approves drug for two pediatric mental disorders
• Children's Health • • Drug News • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 23 07
Johnson & Johnson won U.S. approval to promote its drug, Risperdal, for two psychiatric conditions in children, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.
The…
Aldara cream treats skin damage from sun
• Dermatology • • Skin Care • • Drug News • Aug 17 07
A type of skin lesion called actinic keratosis, caused by long-term exposure to the sun, responds well to prescription Aldara cream applied three times…
Coated Aspirin Has Same Effect on Stomach as Plain Aspirin
• Bowel Problems • • Drug News • Jul 31 07
Some people take aspirin without ever having a problem with their stomach. Others develop low-grade stomach pain or get an ulcer. A few develop…
Etoricoxib and naproxen effective for arthritis
• Arthritis • • Drug News • Jul 30 07
The COX-2 inhibitor etoricoxib and the older agent naproxen are both safe and effective for the treatment of arthritis, according to a report in…
Viagra’s Other Uses
• Drug News • • Heart • Jul 26 07
Viagra is now being used to treat not only erectile dysfunction (ED) but also pulmonary hypertension. And the drug may have potential for treating…
Pharmacokinetics of tramadol in children
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Jul 17 07
The recent studies focusing on the pharmacokinetics of tramadol in children contributed to the increase popularity of tramadol as an analgesic alternative in clinical…
FDA approves Roche’s low dose Tamiflu for children
• Drug News • • Flu • Jul 04 07
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Monday that U.S. health regulators approved its Tamiflu influenza treatment at two lower doses for children in…
Tamiflu could halve pandemic flu death toll
• Drug News • • Flu • Jun 25 07
The antiviral drug Tamiflu could halve the potential death toll from an influenza pandemic if it was used both to treat and prevent the…