Lesser Calories for Longer Life
...st at the University of Michigan, estimated that a pill mimicking the effects of calorie restriction might increase human life span to about 112 healthy years, with the occasional senior living until 140, though some experts view that projection as overly optimistic. Such a drug has been estimated to be ...Party Pills Cause More Spills Than Thrills, and Can Even Kill!
...eactions. Ross Boswell has warned that, untill the pill is proved safe, it would be best if people avoided use of the pill....Research Questions Use of Sleep Meds for Patients with Apnea
...CPAP regularly. Our hypothesis was that a sleeping pill might help new CPAP users adjust to sleeping with ...eive the sleeping agent zolpidem (N=24), a placebo pill (N=24), or standard care (N=24) with no sleeping pill or placebo. Patients taking zolpidem or placeb...Hormone Therapy May Improve the Trip Down Memory Lane
...in memory tasks, compared with those on placebo (a pill with no medicinal value). The researchers used images from functional MRI, or fMRI, to compare the participants’ brain activity. “Our findings suggest that even relatively short periods of hormone therapy have effects on the memory systems that may...Now, a Hormone-free Contraceptive Pill for Men
...ntists have developed a hormone-free contraceptive pill for men they say would make them infertile for som...ondoms, vasectomy or simple abstinence. The new pill developed by Nnaemeka Amobi and other researchers would be more likely to be trusted by women becaus...Common PTSD Drug is No More Effective Than Placebo
...cts of guanfacine and an identical looking placebo pill on 63 male and female veterans at four VA medical centers in California and Hawaii. Twenty-nine participants were randomly assigned to take weekly doses of the drug, and 34 were assigned the placebo, for eight weeks. At the end of the study, the ef...Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy
...ntrol pills) and using multiple methods (e.g., the pill together with condoms) in 2002 than in 1995. When broken down by age, delays in se xual activity played a greater role for younger teens aged 15–17 (23% of the decline). Among 18–19-year-olds, the decline in the risk of teen pregnancy was entirely at...Acomplia Reduces Blood Sugar And Promotes Weight Loss
...bo. Acomplia has already been approved as a diet pill in the European Union, Mexico and Argentina, but its release in the market has been withheld for months for reasons never disclosed by Sanofi-Aventis. PRI......the name tagged to the new emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that was approved by the FDA.// This approval was sanctioned in 1999.ECP also known as 'morning-after-pill' is an oral contraceptive to be taken immediately after intercourse to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. It consists of pills containing l...Mifepristone Reliable For Treating Uterine Fibroids
...and 20 women received an identical looking placebo pill daily, for six months. Doctors sought to evaluate physical changes as well as quality of life improvements. To assess the latter, they used a survey with a 100-point scale that asked questions such as: 'During the past month, how distressed were you ...Dr. Reddy's To Launch 'Polypill' For Treating Heart Disease
...ddy's Laboratories will launch a first-of-its-kind pill to tackle heart diseases in the second half of 2007, it was announced Thursday. // The company has teamed up with researchers at University of Auckland, New Zealand, for trials of the groundbreaking 'polypill' that combines four medicines including...Birth- Control Made Easy And Tasty
... sometimes forget to take their pills. A month's pill pouch will cost for $44 wholesale and somewhat higher at pharmacies. The pills come in a credit-card sized dispenser with a velvet pouch. "This isn't a great leap forward, but I think this is a helpful step," said Dr. Lee Shulman, chairman of the ...Poly-pill – A Single Drug For Multiple Complaint
...f Max Devki Devi Heart & Vascular Institute. The pill is meant for those who are at higher risk of heart...apy as there is no such drug available in a single pill that treats hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol and cardio-vascular diseases. At present, patients...A Combined Heart Pill-developed by Dr. Reddy’
...nsion. The trial will check the reliability of the pill when it comes to safety and its effectiveness when...any to formulate this pill. Mr.Reddy’s claims this pill to be “single most important initiative of the decade” by his firm. He also said, “We should be able...Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers
...yed Britons, relief from hay fever may soon be a pill away. The release of Grazax, a vaccine pill, desig...ezing etc. is promised next month. The vaccine pill contains small amounts of Timothy grass pollen; main allergens in hay fever, and are to be taken dai...Soy’s Restorative Powers Confirme
...s to develop an oral agent. BBIC could be given by pill daily. Source-urekalert PRI...Antibiotic Ear Drops Favored Over Oral Antibiotics for Ear Infections
...tibiotic ear drops over antibiotics swallowed// in pill or liquid form in such cases, a UT Southwestern Me...erely taking oral antibiotics such as swallowing a pill or liquid. The findings are available online in the journal Pediatrics. “With the use of ear drops...Having OCP’s All Year Round to Eliminate Menstrual Cycles Not Unsafe: Says Stud
...in North America, researchers used a birth-control pill consisting of 20 micrograms of ethinyl estradiol and 90 micrograms of levonorgestrel, a formulation marketed by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals under the name Lybrel. Healthy, sexually active women between 18 and 49 years old were given a continuous regimen wi...Does the Home Medicine Chest Warrant the Emergency Contraceptive Pill?
... morning-after-pill or the emergency contraceptive pill is capable of offsetting pregnancy even if it is c...vulnerable as a result of making the morning-after pill available in advance without proper medical advice from a practitioner who knows her personal and fa...The prescription for an anti-smoking pill Zyban, given by a general practitioner, was misrea...nafil, the name for Viagra instead of anti-smoking pill Zyban. "At no time was patient care affected by this as all prescriptions are subject to stringent...