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Studies Review New Drug and Indications for Heated Chemotherapy

Studies have shown that surgery combined with Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy (IPHC) can improve survival rates for select patients with peritoneal carcinoma (cancer of the…    

Antibiotics not needed for acute rhinosinusitis

Symptoms cannot reliably identify which patients with acute rhinosinusitis—infection of the nasal and sinus cavities, will benefit from antibiotic therapy, according to the results…    

Back to Basics: Aspirin After Knee Surgery

Taking aspirin to prevent blood clots after knee surgery may be a safe and effective alternative to currently recommended treatments that are often costlier…    

Statins may cut pneumonia deaths: study

Statin drugs used to lower cholesterol levels and, to a lesser extent, ACE inhibitors used to lower blood pressure, may reduce mortality in older…    

Vaccine for Stomach Flu May be Possible

Every year, millions of people are infected with noroviruses - commonly called “stomach flu” – often resulting in up to 72 hours of…    

FDA: No increased cardiovascular risk with heartburn drugs

Results from two studies submitted to the FDA in late-May suggested an increased cardiovascular risk with long-term use of the popular heartburn drugs omeprazole…    

FDA Says Consumers Continue to Buy Risky Drugs Online

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to warn the American public about the dangers of buying medications over the Internet.

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Use Caution Buying Medical Products Online

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Drug maker packs red-wine-like compound in pill

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

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

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

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’

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

A new study has identified commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of hypertension may be capable of preventing Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive deterioration.

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FDA OK’s meningitis vaccine for young children

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the vaccination of children for bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly neurological inflammatory infection.

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Oral Antibiotics Effective to Treat Severe Urinary Tract Infections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson & Johnson won U.S. approval to promote its drug, Risperdal, for two psychiatric conditions in children, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.

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Aldara cream treats skin damage from sun

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…