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UK to rule Monday if Alzheimer’s drugs worth using
• Drug News • Jan 20 06
Britain’s cost-effectiveness healthcare watchdog NICE says it will rule on Monday whether Alzheimer’s drugs that can help, but not cure, some patients should continue…
Newer flu drugs more effective than old
• Drug News • Jan 19 06
Older antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantidine should not be used to treat seasonal or pandemic influenza because they are not very effective and have…
FDA warns diet drugs contain Prozac and Librium
• Drug News • Jan 16 06
The FDA has issued a warning to consumers that diet pills from Brazil have been found to contain active drug ingredients which are possibly…
Vanderbilt Medical Experts Propose FDA Drug Approval Changes
• Drug News • Jan 12 06
Efforts to reform drug regulation in the wake of the Vioxx withdrawal do not go far enough, according to experts at Vanderbilt University Medical…
Viagra packages to include anti-counterfeit tags
• Drug News • Jan 07 06
Pfizer Inc., in a move to thwart counterfeit Viagra, on Friday said it has included special radio frequency identification tags on all packages of…
Statins do not prevent cancer, study says
• Drug News • Jan 04 06
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs do prevent heart attacks and may offer other health benefits, but contrary to popular belief the blockbuster drugs do not prevent…
China’s new bird flu vaccine ready to go
• Drug News • Dec 28 05
According to the state media, China is about to begin mass-production of a new bird flu vaccine for poultry by the end of the…
Europe on guard against bogus Internet Tamiflu
• Drug News • Dec 22 05
The little white bottle claims to hold 75 milligrams of oseltamivir phosphate - the generic name for the flu drug Tamiflu.
But consumers hoping…
U.S. seizes counterfeit Tamiflu drug
• Drug News • Dec 20 05
U.S. authorities have seized 51 packages of counterfeit Tamiflu, a drug that can be used to treat potentially deadly Avian flu, a customs service…
Tamiflu not linked to psychiatric disorders
• Drug News • Dec 15 05
European regulators on Thursday gave Roche’s Tamiflu (oseltamivir) the all clear of causing psychiatric problems and recommended the drug’s use be extended to include…
Canada’s first prescription drug atlas maps billions in spending
• Drug News • Dec 15 05
Researchers at the University of British Columbia Centre for Health Services and Policy Research have developed a comprehensive portrait of pharmaceutical spending in Canada…
Pfizer to fund independent trial on Celebrex and heart risks
• Drug News • Dec 14 05
Drug company Pfizer Inc., the maker of Celebrex, will pay for an international study of 20,000 people.
The study will compare the potential heart…
MorphoSys signs agreement with Merck
• Drug News • Dec 14 05
MorphoSys AG announced today that it has signed a five-year license agreement with U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. for the use of…
Medical journal says Merck deleted Vioxx dangers
• Drug News • Dec 09 05
A prestigious medical journal on Thursday said Merck & Co. withheld information about the dangers of arthritis drug Vioxx in a key study, an…
Doctors Reconsider Treatments with Painkillers
• Drug News • Dec 06 05
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced that dozens of popular prescription painkillers must now carry the government’s strongest warning about the risks…
Ranbaxy says set to make large quantity of Tamiflu
• Drug News • Dec 01 05
Indian generic drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. said on Thursday that it was prepared to produce large quantities of Tamiflu for the United States…
Indonesia to make anti-viral drug Tamiflu
• Drug News • Nov 25 05
Indonesia will go ahead and make the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to build up stocks in preparation for more human cases of deadly bird flu,…
Bupropion as Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment Holds Promise
• Drug News • Nov 23 05
A new study led by researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute suggests the antidepressant Bupropion may help treat methamphetamine addiction. No medications presently are approved…
China has its own version of bird flu drug
• Drug News • Nov 14 05
China has developed what it calls the equivalent of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu in preparation for a feared pandemic if the virus begins…
France to order 10 million extra Tamiflu doses
• Drug News • Nov 11 05
France said on Thursday it would order an extra 10 million doses of Roche’s antiviral medicine Tamiflu, one of the best defences against bird…
Roche to supply Tamiflu raw ingredient to Vietnam
• Drug News • Nov 09 05
Swiss drug maker Roche AG has agreed to provide the raw ingredient to allow Vietnam to produce its antiviral medicine Tamiflu, one of the…
‘Morning-After Pill’ still no decision by FDA
• Drug News • Nov 02 05
At the end of the two-month comment period on the “morning-after pill” Plan B, there is no indication when or how the
Brand-name prescription drug prices rise
• Drug News • Nov 02 05
Prices for brand name prescription drugs most commonly used by older patients rose at nearly twice the rate of inflation during the second…
Bird flu drug combo could extend supplies
• Drug News • Nov 02 05
Doctors are saying that because of the scarcity of Tamiflu, presently being stockpiled by governments in the event of an influenza pandemic, supplies could…
Roche seeking others to make Tamiflu bird flu drug
• Drug News • Oct 31 05
According to Swiss drug maker Roche, the maker of the sort-after bird flu drug Tamiflu, it is seeking for outside producers for its drug,…