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Study suggests some drug resistance to influenza B medications

Use of certain common antiviral drugs during a recent influenza B epidemic in Japan showed the development of viruses with partial resistance to the drugs, according to a study in the April 4 issue of JAMA. Two antiviral drugs, zanamivir and oseltamivir, which are a type of drugs known as neuraminidase inhibitors, have been effective against influenza and are used extensively. There has be...
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What happens when Medications go wrong?

Have you ever wondered how the dosages of drugs are determined? How drugs are being tested? On whom are these tested and who tests them? What happens if the dosages are unwittingly missed? Or worse still if harmful drugs are tested on unwitting patients what happens? Who answers these questions? In a shocking revelation, a study in the U.S.A. has revealed that in many instances about a thi...

Medications to Prevent Relapse to Cocaine Use

Treatment of cocaine addiction has always been hampered by high rates of relapse, even after prolonged drug abstinence. Research teams from the Drug Abuse Program of the VU Medical Center in the Netherlands and the intramural laboratories of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have identified a process in the brain that may lead to a new generation of medications to prevent relapse to coc...

More Elderly Take Inappropriate and Harmful Medications

More than one in five elderly Americans living on their own takes a medication that could put them at risk for injuries and illness. According to the report, more than 21% of elderly Americans--representing nearly 7 million// individuals--had received at least one of these 33 potentially inappropriate medications in 1996. Nearly 3% used a medication that elderly people should always av...

Medications for depression

According to a new study there is increased usage of antidepressants rather going to psychotherapy among most foreigners. Researchers in the US have compared how people's treatment for depression changed from 1985 to 1999. // The rate of outpatient treatment for depression increased from 1 per 100 persons to 2.5 per 100 over this time.The proportion of those receiving drug treatment for...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

Medications to control asthma, may predispose to dry mouth syndrome ( xerostomia) and caries. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina decided to examine whether there was a connection between// the two most common causes of absenteeism among school children asthma and caries. In 655 patients between ages 1 and 15, they found that the numbers of decayed, missing and...

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FDA Proposes New Warnings About Suicidal Thinking, Behavior in Young Adults Who Take Antidepressant Medications

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 2, 2007-The U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) today proposed that makers of allantidepressant medications update the existing black box warning ontheir products' labeling to include warnings about increased risksof suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in youngadults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment (generally the firstone to two months).</p...

Survey: Migraine Patients Taking Potentially Addictive Barbiturate or Opioid Medications Not Approved by FDA as Migraine Treatments

Addiction can lead to hospitalization and drug withdrawal CHICAGO, May 15, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey of hundredsof migraine patients and physicians commissioned by the NationalHeadache Foundation and conducted by Harris Interactive shows that20 percent of migraine patients are currently taking potentiallyaddictive medications that contain barbiturates or opioids and havenot been a...
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