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Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...d, the use of aspirin has increased. This powerful pill will //reduce pain, fever, inflammation, prevent blood clots, and even reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke. In the more than 35 years since aspirin's potent anti-clotting effects were first discovered, relatively few drugs have been develop...

Drug to treat lung cancer shows promise

A pill long used around the world to treat dry mouth could help protect against lung cancer in lifelong smokers. The drug appears especially promising for former smokers, who still face a higher-than-usual risk// of lung cancers years after they quit. The p...

Pill may replace exercise

...ledge in hand, it now may be possible to develop a pill that pumps up muscle cells without all that exercise, said Dr. R. Sanders Williams, dean of the Duke University of School of Medicine. The main target of the study is to promote the health of people with heart disease or other conditions that keep th...

New drug helps allergies

... hours. Indeed, Claritin's recommended dose is one pill a day. With Claritin's $2.8 billion in sales expected to plummet, Schering-Plough is trying to switch patients to Clarinex. In addition to running television, print and Internet ads, the company is selling Clarinex at 20% less than Claritin's price....

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

...erm painkiller for cancer patients and others. The pill is designed to slowly release its active ingredien... the dosage of the powerful narcotic.// But if the pill is chewed or crushed and sniffed, it gives a stronger dose--providing a high that can be addictive a...

Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

A chemotherapy pill is as effective for treating advanced colorectal c... treatment with a similar drug.Patients taking the pill capecitabine survived just as long as those on standard chemotherapy, but the pill caused fewer side...

Men happy to take contraception

... they would have a much lower interest in the male pill or vasectomies," postulated Dr Weston. Those resul...of the year. But women shouldn't throw away their pill prescriptions just yet. Pharmaceutical companies are not rushing to put a product on the market, and...

Best ways to split a pill

...archers offer important tips regarding splitting a pill and ways of taking care your medication. Sometimes half a pill does the job better than a whole one. one might be neglecting off a medication, or be given a double...

Gingko languishs memory test

... in Massachusetts, tested gingko against a placebo pill in a group of 90 men and 130 women - all of whom were healthy and aged 62 or over. They took gingko - or the placebo - for six weeks and had tests of memory, concentration and learning before, during and after the trial. A close associate was also ...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

... up for four years. It was found that in the dummy pill group, there were 98 new diagnoses of diabetes whi... separating the two groups. In addition, the dummy pill group had significantly greater worsening of their ability to control their blood sugar over the fou...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...f caffeine (870 milligrams) in capsules or a sugar pill in a cycle of three treatment periods that extended for two weeks. During each treatment period, blood levels of homocysteine, caffeine, and B vitamins were measured. Volunteers were asked to refrain from all other caffeine-containing products - choc...

Hormone regimen and how recently used may determine cancer risk

...controls, aged 35 to 64 years. The study looked at pill and patch hormone users as well as several types of hormone regimens. Researchers of the study concluded that there was no association between breast cancer risk and the regimens of either estrogen-alone therapy or sequential HT (estrogen combined wi...

Estrogen Patch is Safer than Pills for Heart

...men who take hormone replacement therapy through a pill to improve their general well being and prevent os...roke. It is possible that Once ingested orally the pill contents pass by blood circulation to the liver first, where the C-reactive protein is produced and ...

A drug in vogue to deccelerate the course of Alzheimer's

...at must be teased out is whether antioxidants in a pill are as beneficial as those in food, noted Paula Bickford, PhD, professor of neurosurgery at the University of South Florida, Tampa. ...

Stroke and the Pill

...but most doctors have continued //to recommend the pill only for healthy, younger women just to be safe. ...l were asked to provide a history of birth control pill use, along with information on other health conditions and health-related lifestyle factors. Result...

Pfizer unveils anti-smoking drug

...d from a weed sometimes called false tobacco, as a pill to help smokers kick the habit. They reported that...while 33 percent of patients who received Zyban, a pill sold as Wellbutrin for depression, were able to quit. "This is a significant improvement over resul...

Tea Pill Lowers Cholesterol

...iversity shows cholesterol-lowering effects from a pill formulated with extracts from green tea. The study... assigned members of the group to receive either a pill containing tea extracts thought to have cholesterol-lowering properties or a placebo pill. The study...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...n a question of whether being on the birth control pill could increase your chance for cancer or other fat...f death among the women who used the birth control pill compared to the women who never used oral contraceptives. In fact, the numbers suggest the death rat...

Almonds Help Lower Cholesterol

... and also took a 20-milligram cholesterol-lowering pill each day. The third group followed the "Portfolio" eating plan, which includes a diet high in soy, fiber and almonds. Results of the study show those who followed the Portfolio diet plan lowered their LDL or "bad" cholesterol by more than 30 percent...

The Downside of Asthma Medication

...-- they may be delivered with an inhaler, given in pill or liquid form, delivered in a nebulizer, or given by injection. Whatever the mode of administration, they work by relaxing the airway and reducing airway responsiveness to allergens that cause it to restrict and cause an acute attack. Many people wi...

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