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Big Drugs: A Bitter Pill
• Drug News • Oct 11 04
To pay a high price for a prescription drug is a bitter pill if you’re already struggling to make ends meet.
All the more…
Study: Few buy drugs online
• Drug News • Oct 11 04
Only 4 percent of Americans have used the Internet to buy prescription drugs - and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies - despite…
U.S. and UK discuss Chiron flu vaccine crisis
• Drug News • Oct 07 04
U.S. and British drug regulators met on Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in northern England that has triggered an international…
U.S. hopes to cope with flu shot shortage
• Drug News • Oct 06 04
The announcement that the company that makes nearly half the flu vaccine used in the United States will not supply any vaccine for the…
Major supplier won’t make flu vaccine this season
• Drug News • Oct 05 04
The company that makes half the flu vaccine used in the United States said on Tuesday it will not supply any vaccine for the…
Lawmakers Eye Pediatric Drug Rule Change
• Drug News • Oct 02 04
The discovery that antidepressants may increase suicidal tendencies in children has prompted some lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to financial…
Johnson & Johnson Receives Subpoena
• Drug News • Oct 02 04
Health-care company Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it had received a subpoena requesting documents about the sales and marketing of Procrit, a prescription…
Merck withdraws arthritis drug Vioxx
• Drug News • Sep 30 04
Merck & Co. said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the…
Antibiotics sold illegally in Hispanic NYC stores
• Drug News • Sep 30 04
In many Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City, no prescription is needed to get an antibiotic. The drugs are readily available in bodegas and…
FDA eases rules on drug manufacturing
• Drug News • Sep 29 04
Drug makers will not need regulatory approval for every change in their manufacturing processes under new guidelines designed to prevent supply disruptions, U.S. health…
Half of Internet “Viagra” could be fake: study
• Drug News • Sep 28 04
As many as half of the Viagra anti-impotence pills sold on the Internet could be counterfeit, British scientists said on Tuesday.
They analyzed…
Topical drug best for smallpox vaccine side effects
• Drug News • Sep 28 04
A variety of potentially serious infections can occur after immunization with the smallpox vaccine. Now, findings from an animal study suggest that a topical…
Non-profit drug research needs $1 bln injection
• Drug News • Sep 17 04
Non-profit groups developing new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more than $1 billion in additional funding, according to a report…
Canada warned U.S. imports may raise drug prices
• Drug News • Sep 15 04
A senior Canadian politician voiced concern on Wednesday that Americans buying cheaper prescription medicines from Canada could push up the drug prices north of…
Many don’t disclose foregoing drugs
• Drug News • Sep 13 04
Many chronically ill patients never tell their doctor or nurse they’ve had to cut back on prescription drugs because they are too expensive, and…
FDA approval for chewable ADHD tablets
• Drug News • Sep 11 04
Alliant Pharmaceuticals has announced FDA approval of Methylin Chewable Tablets and Methylin Oral Solution for the treatment of ADHD. The two products are the…
Antidepressant Approved for Diabetes Pain
• Drug News • Sep 08 04
Cymbalta, newly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat major depression, has been granted an additional FDA nod to combat diabetic…
What’s the Difference Between a Brand Name Drug and a Generic Drug?
• Drug News • Sep 08 04
Drugs are complex substances, and they may have as many as three different names: chemical, generic, and brand. Chemical names are long and difficult…
Drug makers create U.S. database for trial results
• Drug News • Sep 08 04
The drug industry, fighting off criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized results…
AstraZeneca’s Crestor Drug Beats Lipitor in Study
• Drug News • Sep 06 04
AstraZeneca Plc’s cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor performed better than Pfizer Inc’s Lipitor in an AstraZeneca-funded study of patients with metabolic syndrome, according to results released…
G. Bush and Prescription Drugs Prices
• Drug News • Sep 06 04
In December 2003, Bush signed the new Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act into law. Many seniors expected it to provide much needed relief…
Chinese to get easier access to ED drugs
• Drug News • Sep 04 04
Chinese ED (erectile dysfunction) patients will soon have easier access to the “magic pills” that can cure the condition.
Small and medium-sized hospitals can…
Malaria drug found effective against SARS
• Drug News • Sep 03 04
The anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be used to treat the SARS respiratory illness which killed hundreds of people last year, virologists at the Belgian…
Cialis could top Viagra sales by 2006
• Drug News • Sep 02 04
Viagra is one of the best-selling drugs in the world and one of the most famous brand names ever.
But a report in…
Anti-calcium drug blocks cervical cancer in mice
• Drug News • Sep 01 04
Treatment with Zometa (zoledronic acid), a drug used to reduce high calcium levels, can block the development of cervical cancer in mice, according to…