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Heart Drug has grave side effects

.... An accompanying editorial says the use of other drugs commonly used in worsening heart failure, dopamine...ered given the milrinone findings, since all three drugs work similarly to strengthen the heartbeat. Heart failure, in which the heart gradually loses its ...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...sound can improve the efficacy of the clot-busting drugs used to restore blood flow to the brain.// Dr. Andrei Alexandrov, of the University of Texas, said he was using intracranial ultrasound to track the efficacy of the clot-busting drug called tPA or alteplase. Shortly after initiating the ultrasound m...

Failure of Drug-Coated Stent

Evidence is growing that stents with certain drugs helps them do a better job of keeping blood vessel...ared surgically. But a new report suggests not all drugs work equally well.// Researchers found that stents coated with a derivative of the cancer drug pacli...

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...ting effects were first discovered, relatively few drugs have been developed that can even be compared to the efficacy, ease of use, and price of aspirin. From the meta-analyses, and to many stroke experts and biostatisticians in this field, aspirin remains the drug of choice. Extensive advertising has b...

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

Americans buy about five billion over-the-counter drugs each year to treat routine health problems. The number has increased as more and more drugs have made the switch from prescription to over-the-counter status. But many Americans, particularly ...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...ur-own-new-bone method with genetically engineered drugs to make that bone grow faster. Surgeons have long lengthened leg bones by breaking them, pulling them apart and letting the body grow new bone - just as it would if you'd naturally broken your leg. Several years ago, a New York physician adapted tha...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

... patients' livers for signs of harm. Unlike other drugs that can clear the body shortly after patients swallow a dose, Arava can takes months to dissipate. According to him, there is not much doctors can do if a patient shows signs of trouble. Yet some insurance companies pay only for Arava, not more expe...

Chemical in Gila monster's saliva yields Alzheimer drug

...omous Gila monster is one of a growing crop of new drugs that are being developed to improve memory and lea...the mechanisms of memory formation, hoping to find drugs that can help offset memory loss in patients with diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to depression, s...

FDA debates status of decongestant drugs

...ced or ignored by many who assume over-the-counter drugs are safe for one and all. One big reason such warn...e decongestants can work against anti-hypertensive drugs that patients might take for their high blood pressure. There are over-the-counter cold and flu prod...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

... come under fire. In 1998, the FDA pulled two diet drugs from the market, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine, because of concern over heart-valve problems. Sibutramine, marketed as Meridia by Abbott Laboratories, works on two brain chemicals that control appetite and make patients feel full. It was approved ...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more faithfully. Sixty percent of the print and br...e for just 20 medications, including the arthritis drugs Vioxx and Celebrex, the ulcer drug Prilosec, Viagra for impotence and the allergy drugs Claritin, Al...

Epilepsy Drugs Can Enhance Risk of Birth Defects

...dence that many commonly prescribed anti-epileptic drugs carry this risk, but the researchers caution that not taking the anti-seizure drugs could be even more harmful. Dean and his colleagues studied 160 mothers who were undergoing treatmen...

Cure for common cold

...Drug Administration’s advisory panel on anti-viral drugs said there were too many questions about the safety of the drug, which is made by ViroPharma Inc., to allow its widespread use merely to treat an ail-away by itself. The drug, known as Picovir, has attracted attention because it directly attacks a fa...

Status of some prescription drugs

... of public hearings to decide whether to make some drugs available over-the-counter that currently require ... are being considered, ranging from blood pressure drugs to birth control pills. But there are inconsistent views about how this could be good for the consum...

Oestrogen to help mental health

...usions and halucinations.// Although antipsychotic drugs like risperidone have been shown to help many peop...w days."That was very striking. With antipsychotic drugs you may get an initial sedative effect, but you are usually waiting for seven days or more for the f...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...e vulnerable to aggressive treatment, perhaps with drugs that target Rho protein....

Drug stabilizes cancer growth

...ety of cancers that failed// standard chemotherapy drugs in a study done by the Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic... Phenoxodiol belongs to a relatively new class of drugs known as signal transduction inhibitors, all designed to switch off certain cancer processes. Phenox...

Hypertensive drugs may cause cough

Hypertensive drugs in general have a common side effect- cough. Iron supplementation cures the annoying cough that often plagues people on a widely-used blood pressure medication.// The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are often used to treat high blood...

Pill may replace exercise

... from doing enough exercise. "This could lead to drugs that will let people get the health benefits of regular exercise, even if they cannot exercise," said Williams. This could help patients with heart or lung disease, or lower the risk of Type II diabetes, for instance. "It is possible it could become ...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

...inistration recommended that three popular allergy drugs are safe enough to be used without a prescription....ertness, nausea and headache. By prescription, the drugs cost about $80 per month versus $10 to $15 in the 17 nations where the drugs are over-the-counter. T...

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