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FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs

13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 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 ...


Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism

23 hours ago | 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.


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 ...


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.


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, ...