European agency warns of possible Botox side effects: report August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Months after US authorities sounded the alarm, European officials are warning of dangerous possible side effects from the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox, according to a German news report. | |
Watch out for drug names that look, sound alike September 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine. | |
Post-marketing studies finding adverse events in drugs used in children September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA, 1997), designed to stimulate more drug safety studies in children, has resulted in more than 130 label changes since its inception nearly six years ago, according ... | |
Ondansetron reduces vomiting, hospital admissions in children with gastroenteritis September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have demonstrated that a drug called ondansetron helps reduce vomiting, the need for intravenous fluids and hospital admissions in children with acute gastroenteritis. | |
Value of direct-to-consumer drug advertising oversold, study finds September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Direct-to-consumer advertising may not be giving big pharma such a big bang for their buck after all. Despite the billions spent on bringing drug marketing campaigns straight into patients' living rooms, such strategies have ... | |
 Suicide risks studied in drugs for physical ills September 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Cody Miller was a high school football player who was allergic to ragweed. Douglas Briggs was a doctor coping with pain from an old back injury. Both are now dead, hanging victims driven to suicide, ... | |
FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal ... | |
FDA posts list of potential problem drugs 8 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients. | |
Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated. | |
Unsuccessful drug against anxiety opens a novel gateway for the treatment of cancer September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Unsatisfying drug for anxiety reveals scientists a promising novel anti-cancer drug target. Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which organisms deal with defective cells. ... | |
Pfizer resuming ads for Lipitor after controversy September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine ... | |
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