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Diabetes drug shows promise in multiple sclerosis
• Diabetes • • Drug News • • Neurology • Jun 17 09
Treatment with the diabetes drug Actos, known technically as pioglitazone, seems to reduce brain shrinkage and may have other beneficial effects in people with…
Experts say new drugs needed to fight flu pandemic
• Drug News • • Flu • Feb 27 09
Experts on Friday urged governments on Friday to diversify their stockpiles of drugs and called for more new medicines to fight what could be…
Major Breakthrough May Lead to Better Drugs for Diabetes, Other Diseases
• Cancer: Breast • • Diabetes • • Drug News • Feb 14 09
For decades, scientists have studied nuclear hormone receptors to gain a better understanding of how they turn genes on and off throughout the body…
New reference material can improve testing of multivitamin tablets
• Drug News • Feb 11 09
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new certified reference material that can be an important quality assurance tool for…
Long-term use of popular inhalers increases risk of pneumonia for COPD patients
• Drug News • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 10 09
Newly published research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine finds that a popular class of anti-inflammatory inhalers significantly increases the risk of…
New Guidelines for Prescribing Opioid Pain Drugs Published
• Drug News • Feb 10 09
A prestigious panel of pain-management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) www. ampainsoc.org and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published…
Decrease Drug Costs—Go Generic
• Drug News • • Public Health • Dec 10 08
Today, more than ever, consumers can opt for generic equivalents of brand-name medications at substantial cost savings. According to the December issue of Mayo…
E-prescribing Systems Can Boost Drug Cost Savings
• Drug News • • Public Health • Dec 10 08
Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems that allow doctors to select lower cost or generic medications can save $845,000 per 100,000 patients per year and possibly…
Hypersensitivity Reactions to the Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine Are Rare
• Drug News • Dec 03 08
Hypersensitivity reactions to the quadrivalent HPV vaccine (4vHPV, Gardasil) are uncommon and most schoolgirls can tolerate subsequent doses, finds the first evaluation of the…
Researchers Find Potential Drug Target for Leukemia
• Drug News • Nov 25 08
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have discovered what could be a novel drug target…
Shortage of Cancer Drugs Impacts Iraqi Children with Leukemia
• Cancer • • Drug News • • Public Health • Jul 24 08
A study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers revealed that some Iraqi children diagnosed with leukemia paid a steep price for economic sanctions imposed…
Short antibiotic course effective in COPD flare-ups
• Drug News • • Respiratory Problems • Jun 04 08
In people who suffer flare-ups of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a short course of antibiotics is as effective as a standard longer…
Chinese drugs driving down generic prices
• Drug News • May 13 08
A coming wave of Chinese pills is set to push down the price of generic drugs, as more low-cost finished medicines from the country…
US FDA says generic Wellbutrin OK despite reports
• Drug News • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Apr 17 08
A cheaper, generic version of GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Wellbutrin XL antidepressant is just as safe and effective, despite complaints from some patients, the U.S. Food…
Parkinson’s Drugs Tradeoff: Better Muscle Control, Worse Side Effects
• Drug News • • Neurology • Apr 16 08
Compared to older drugs for Parkinson disease, a newer class of medications called dopamine agonists might be better at preventing some of the disabling…
Ibuprofen or acetaminophen in long-term resistance training increases muscle mass/strength
• Drug News • Apr 07 08
Taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen caused a substantially greater increase over placebo in the amount of quadriceps muscle mass and muscle…
Vietnam starts human trials for bird flu vaccine
• Drug News • • Flu • Apr 03 08
Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said on Thursday in the Southeast Asian country that…
Free Drug Samples May Burden Patients’ Pockets
• Drug News • • Public Health • Mar 24 08
Following free drug sample receipt, patients who receive these samples have significantly higher out-of-pocket prescription costs than those who don’t, according to the first…
Researchers Discover New Effect for Insulin
• Diabetes • • Drug News • Mar 20 08
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in aging and lifespan, a…
Studies Review New Drug and Indications for Heated Chemotherapy
• Cancer • • Drug News • Mar 16 08
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
• Drug News • • Flu • • Infections • Mar 15 08
Symptoms cannot reliably identify which patients with acute rhinosinusitis - infection of the nasal and sinus cavities, will benefit from antibiotic therapy, according to…
Back to Basics: Aspirin After Knee Surgery
• Drug News • • Surgery • Mar 05 08
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
• Drug News • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 27 08
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
• Bowel Problems • • Drug News • • Neurology • Feb 14 08
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
• Drug News • Dec 02 07
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…