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OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...use of the drug has led to higher rate of overdose deaths and narcotics crimes. Oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin, was detected in 56 cases where toxicology tests were performed in 2000 and 2001. Of those people, 23 took fatal doses of the drug....

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...isits, hospitalisations, fatal asthma attacks and deaths during a 2 year study period than those with normal dyspnoea perception. The patients with low POD tended to be older, female and generally had suffered from asthma for a longer period of time than the patients with normal or high POD. Low POD pati...

Kidney cancer on the rise

...disease accounts for an estimated 95,000 worldwide deaths each year, 3,000 of which are in the UK. According to Dr Nick James, a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and a kidney cancer expert, smoking is believed to be one of the main risk factors for the disease, accounting for 30 to ...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

... so will be the chief determinant of the number of deaths caused by tobacco over the next few decades....

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled uses as a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration banned GHB in 1990. President Clinton signed a bill in 2000, indicating that its possession or use is illegal except for superv...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

...than Caucasian women.// Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive organs. It is now obvious that ethnicity is an independent risk factor in prognosis. US researchers have studied the fate of 10,003 Caucasian women and 600 African American women with ovarian cancer. ...

Cloud of smoke over Zyban

...ociation between the tobacco-cessation drug and 57 deaths in the UK, spurred media-reports abroad casting a ...d that “there were no reports directly linking the deaths to Zyban”. Zyban is a prescription drug and GSK would continue to sell it across world markets, he s...

Loss of weight

...acturer of sibutramine, has said it is aware of 34 deaths globally in patients taking the drug, but insists there is no evidence that the drug was the cause of the deaths.Millions of patients have taken the drug since it was launched in 1997....

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...ow known to have been associated with at least 260 deaths from blood disorders. Because of this danger, Ticlopidine is no longer recommended by many physicians, but is still on the market. Evaluation of Plavix in a single large trial with stroke patients was not significantly better than aspirin in reduci...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...nnected to dozens of serious liver injuries and 12 deaths which should be banned.// Arava began selling in 1...ding 50 hospitalizations and 10 deaths. Two of the deaths were people in their 20s. Since Arava and methotrexate work equally well, and methotrexate also bear...

Pig cloning for organs

...rn with an ocular defect and small ear flaps. "The deaths appeared to be caused by classic nuclear transfer problems, such as respiratory distress, immaturity at birth and heart problems," Prather said....

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...roximately 1,190 children resulting in at least 88 deaths each year. The researchers say the annual cost to ... would prevent 9,980 cases of meningitis C and 666 deaths over the cohort’s lifetime, resulting in almost 23,000 discounted life years saved. That saving woul...

Fish Oil Fights Arrhythmias, Sudden Death

...ted largely from a 55% reduction in sudden cardiac deaths at 4 months follow-up. The analysis also shows that the lifesaving benefit of n-3 PUFA is likely due to reducing episodes of potentially fatal irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias. Instead, the association recommends consuming two servings of fi...

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...that it has received reports of more than 50 TRALI deaths since 1990, but that the full scope of the problem is unclear because of misdiagnosis or underreporting. These conditions are routinely treated with diuretics, or drugs that decrease body fluid by increasing urine production. But diuretics can be da...

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

...he direct cause or main contributing factor in 150 deaths and a likely contributor in an additional 350 deat...imated that the painkiller was associated with 290 deaths from diversion and overdose. Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma told that the DEA conclusion...

Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

...ld play a role in reducing the number of childhood deaths from diarrhea around the world. Researchers who tested three different methods of zinc administration in nearly 1,650 Nepalese youngsters found zinc reduced the risk of prolonged diarrhea// defined as lasting more than seven days by 35 percent to 45 ...

Detecting Colorectal Cancer

...er stages. Colorectal cancer causes about 300,000 deaths each year worldwide. The protein, mini chromosome maintenance protein 2 (MCM2), was found in 35 of 40 patients known to have colorectal cancer during a recent study. There was no protein found in the samples from 20 healthy individuals. Lead study a...

Increase in renal problems

... stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

A closer look at Vitamins

... took vitamins. After five years, there were 1,000 deaths including 500 deaths from coronary heart disease. After adjusting for other factors, researchers found supplement use was...

Gene researchers make Malaria-resistant mosquito

....// Malaria causes up to an estimated 1.5 million deaths per year. Vaccine development has so far proven unsuccessful since the malaria parasite lives in the bloodstream and therefore "evolves all the tricks to escape the body's immune defenses," Jacobs-Lorena said. While pesticides have been used to kill...

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