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TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...drug and possible side effects. TV commercials for prescription drugs have become commonplace since the Food and D.... About 44 percent of those adults then received a prescription for the drug they saw advertised. After watching a commercial for an asthma drug, about a quarter of...

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

...ll charge for the medicine, which would be sold by prescription under the brand name Picovir, but officials said it is likely to cost as much as antibiotics....

Iodex goes to SmithKline Beecham consumer Healthcare

...f the merged entity, GSK, would give more focus on prescription drugs and vaccines rather than over-the-counter (OTC) products. The officials said with this transfer of the Iodex brand, the entire promotion, marketing and distribution will be carried out by SKBCH, a leading player in the OTC segment. The Iodex ...

FDA Approves Elidel Cream for Eczema

...the U.S. develop flare-ups of eczema. // It is a prescription cream for the skin condition called atopic dermatitis or eczema. It is intended for people who can't use other standard skin medications. Typically, doctors use steroids to treat eczema, which fight against swelling and inflammation but often bring...

Medications for depression

... - physicians may feel more confident giving out a prescription than offering therapy. This is acceptable so long as people get better, but more effort could perhaps be made to give patients a choice of treatments for depression....

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...// Abuse of OxyContin, the nation's best selling prescription painkiller, began in Maine and Virginia, spread to...ssification requires patients to present a written prescription to a pharmacist. Its time-released form allows patients to take it once every 12 hours. Abuse of t...

FDA Imposes New Restrictions On Roche's Accutane

...ualification Stickers'' that must be placed on the prescription as a means of verifying the negative pregnancy test and that the patient received the appropriate counseling. ''This sticker will indicate to the pharmacists that the patient is 'qualified,' the FDA said in a statement....

Senior drug card saves little

Discount prescription drug cards now available to older Americans offer ...only a few dollars per prescription. The cost of prescription drugs is crucial for many older people. Medicare, which provides health insurance to all Americans o...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...ors discovered that patients often stopped their// prescription because of the drug's rigid dosing instructions: It was supposed to be taken upon waking 30 minutes before eating, and downed with plenty of water. To top it off, the drug can cause severe indigestion. So scientists tried giving women a week's dose ...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...ere among the best indicators of how you might use prescription drugs. With today's release of the first comprehensive state-by-state study of prescription drug use, where you live also can say a lot about which and how many medications you use. // Accord...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...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 supervised study on narcolepsy. The government has turned GHB into a forbidden fruit. The...

Cloud of smoke over Zyban

... directly linking the deaths to Zyban”. Zyban is a prescription drug and GSK would continue to sell it across world markets, he said. Endorsing the safety profile of Zyban, GSK said: “Death (the 57 reported deaths) was most commonly due to cardiovascular causes and where information on medical history was provide...

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...tensive advertising has been promoting three other prescription drugs, also platelet inhibitors, which have similar anti-clotting effects. They are: ticlopidine (Ticlid), clopidogrel (Plavix), and dipyridamole with very small doses of aspirin (Aggrenox). Ticlopidine's use is now known to have been associated with...

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

...d as more and more drugs have made the switch from prescription to over-the-counter status. But many Americans, particularly senior citizens, misuse over-the-counter drugs because the lettering is too small. Consumers have also complained that words like "indications," and "precautions" are too technical and conf...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

According to a survey, a prescription drug for rheumatoid arthritis has been connected to dozens of serious liver injuries and 12 deaths which should be banned.// Arava began selling in 1998 as a competitor to the gold-standard treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, called methotrexate. Whe...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

...tioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the prescription diet drug sibutramine. Public Citizen says the drug, sold as Meridia, is associated with 29 deaths, including 19 from// cardiovascular causes such as heart attacks. But obesity experts say it's difficult to determine if people died because of Meridia...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

... Administration issued rules for television ads on prescription drugs. Critics argue that drug ads aimed at ordin...eated health problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more faithfully. Sixty percent of the print and broadcast ads were for just 20 medications, in...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

...no deadline for making a decision. // "Drugs are prescription for a reason. They have the ability to do both good and harm. Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec have almost no side effects and are equally effective as the antihistamines that are available over the counter today." said Robert Seidman, WellPoint's chief...

New drug helps allergies

...g-Plough makes Claritin, the nation's best-selling prescription allergy drug. In November, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to switch Claritin to over-the-counter drug. A month's supply, which now costs about $85, could drop to about $15. Moreover, Schering-Plough's Claritin patent is expected to expi...

A remedy to overcome dandruff

...s, it's worthwhile seeing your doctor for either a prescription shampoo or a topical medication....

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