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British Authorities Seize Spurious Drugs

...ldwide sales of more than $10 billion. The drug is prescribed to patients diagnosed as having an increased risk of cardiovascular// disease and diabetes and those with angina and high blood pressure. Recently while conducting raids at some wholesale locations British authorities unearthed spurious packets of P...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

...vegetables, cereals and liver. Women are usually prescribed folic acid supplements, a synthetic compound of folate, before conceiving and during the early months of pregnancy, to reduce the risk of birth defects involving the nervous system like spina bifida etc. An examination of the serum folate levels exa...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...t clots that can block blood vessels. It is widely prescribed after //strokes, heart attacks and orthopedic surgery and is also given to prevent recurring clots in the legs or lungs.But warfarin, which takes time to kick in, interacts with other drugs and foods containing vitamin K. It requires regular blood te...

Slowing Down The Progression Of Tumour Cells With Omega-6 Fatty Acids

...n, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly prescribed for arthritis, blocked the production of cPLA2 and broke the chain leading to cell growth, pointing to a new drug development target. Studies have shown that COX2 has been implicated in the growth of many types of tumours, hence researchers feel th...

Trust In Doctors Can Affect Taking Medications

...with diabetes who fail to take their medication as prescribed may have poor blood sugar control and a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, blindness, kidney failure and amputation. Source: Newswis...

Physicians Lack Clinical Guidelines For Treating Elderly With Multiple Illnesses

...s were followed, the hypothetical patient would be prescribed 12 medications (costing her $406 per month) and a complicated non-pharmacological regimen. Adverse interactions between drugs and diseases could result. For the present, widely used CPGs offer little guidance to clinicians caring for older patients ...

A Cheap Device to Stop Snoring from New Zealand

...sts a fraction of expensive sleep masks and can be prescribed by a doctor without the need to visit a specialist or dentist for fitting. Robertson said using the device was similar to buying a new pair of shoes and getting used to them. It has Federal Drug Administration approval in the US and is about to be...

Get Into Bed And Sleep Like A Baby

...nly a fraction of expensive sleep masks and can be prescribed by a doctor without the need to visit a specialist. It is similar to buying a new pair of shoes and getting used to them. The device is reported to have a 90 percent success rate in clinical trials and was also tried in patients who have been admin...

Super Bugs Contaminate UK Chickens

...resistance in humans is because of the antibiotics prescribed for us rather than animals. “It doesn't mean to say it's not possible for antibiotic resistance to be transferred from animals to man but I think you've got to focus on where the main concern lies." ...

Popularity Of Homeopathy On The Increase

...ician had observed that Peruvian or China bark was prescribed to combat malaria but also caused malaria-like sym...at homeopathy works. The medication should only be prescribed by a trained homeopath who has examined the patient carefully. Conventional medicine still rejects...

Aliskiren: A New Treatment For Hypertension

...d with placebo and is as effective as two commonly prescribed ARBs with a similar tolerability profile. The article also noted that, although further examination is needed, there is preliminary evidence from one study that adherence to aliskiren therapy is high, averaging more than 95%. Source: Newswise...

Ways Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

...fection more serious. Antibiotics are usually only prescribed for the more serious effects of food poisoning, th...does not respond to the first antibiotic treatment prescribed then testing will usually be carried out to establish if the bacteria are resistant and a different ...

Olive oil can do more good than just adding taste to your dish

...ch belongs to the above category, is most commonly prescribed for pain reliefIt has now been found that high quality olive oil contains a natural chemical that acts like the popular anti-inflammatory pain killer ibuprofen. Infact, a 50-gram helping of extra-virgin olive oil was equivalent to about 10% of the ib...

Unbiased Treatment Options Required For Breast Cancer Patients

...t with a medical oncologist were more likely to be prescribed tamoxifen therapy when appropriate. Dr. Silliman reports that Seventy-nine percent of the participants had been referred to medical oncologists, which is lower than the 88 percent seen among younger....

Timing Of Women's Labor May Determine Effectiveness Of Pain Medication

...e significant practical implications for how it is prescribed and delivered. For example, the dose could be tailored to the time of day or a smart, programmable, time-released version of the drug could be developed to optimize desired drug effects and minimize undesired side effects both for women in labor and ...

Clinical Comparisons Between ADHD Drugs Are Less

...ons, despite the relatively large variety of drugs prescribed for ADHD and the prevalence of the condition among...tified by the Oregon reviewers compared the widely prescribed ADHD medication Ritalin with other drugs. Most of these comparative trials were short in duration, i...

Nurse wins her case over use of Herceptin for her Breast cancer

... patients who are positive for Her-2/neu genes are prescribed the drug, as Barbara Clark only had a early stage cancer which was diagnosed at the start of this year, the doctors denied giving her Herceptin. Because, Herceptin is not in early stage cancers, but she wanted the drug to be used and threathened to u...

Common, cheaper drugs could be used to treat hypertension

...ve been available for many years but less commonly prescribed as far as hypertension is concerned. In the stud...that these cheap, yet effective medicines could be prescribed as an alternative form of treatment in such individuals. Additional studies however would be requi...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...s in people with epilepsy, but are more frequently prescribed for the treatment of non-epileptic neurological pa...en last year making anticonvulsants the fifth most prescribed class of medications. The risks to the fetus from anticonvulsant drug use occurs very early in the...

FDA Mislead On Asthma Drug By GlaxoSmithKline

...as delivered overnight to all U.S. doctors who had prescribed salmeterol, and notices were posted on both the FDA and Glaxo websites,'' said Mr. Kathy Rickard of Glaxo's Respiratory Medicines Development Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Salmeterol is a key ingredient in Serevent and is combin...

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