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HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:03am neoform

SF Gate -- The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suicide. FDA said it is reviewing a handful of reports involving mood changes, suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who h.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 10:18pm neoform

CBC -- Even though the drug shrinks cancerous tumours, no pharmaceutical companies wanted to fund human trials because they couldn't make enough money selling it. And that's when Peace River stepped in. To date, the town in northwestern Alberta has collected.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes more than about $80,000 a year, administration.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 11:02pm neoform

CNN -- People who took a Sanofi-Aventis SA obesity pill in clinical trials were more likely to report suicidal thoughts or actions, drug reviewers said in an analysis released Monday. Food and Drug Administration staff also said a 20-milligram dose of the dru.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 7:26pm neoform

CNN -- A drug used by several thousand patients with Parkinson's disease is being pulled from the market because of reports of heart valve damage. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that pergolide, sold under the name Permax and also in generic ve.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 1:59pm mrmdc

CNN -- U.S. health advisers recommended Tuesday that the government approve the first bird flu vaccine as a stopgap measure, despite evidence it wouldn't protect most people. In separate votes, the outside panel said the vaccine was both safe and effective. A.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 10:24am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The nation's ongoing battle against obesity has a new weapon — the first government-approved diet pill that can be bought without a prescription... Read More

HEALTH / OPINION Tue Jan 23, 2007 @ 12:14am neoform

Lew Rockwell -- The good news this month is that a Canadian team under Dr. Michelakis at the University of Ottawa has discovered that a simple, inexpensive chemical is a powerful anticancer agent, effective against a broad range of cancers. (Read their paper in the Janua.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 9:33am mrmdc

City News -- It's called "Cocaine" but it doesn't contain the drug you think it does. This is one of those 'energy drinks' that have become all the rage on store shelves, especially with the younger crowd... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Jan 2, 2007 @ 10:02pm neoform

Physorg -- AIDS researchers said a new drug shows promise for inhibiting the HIV virus in patients new to treatment or those currently taking a drug cocktail... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 4:27pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim didn't set out to create a Viagra-like drug for women. The company was simply trying to develop a fast-acting antidepressant, one that patients would respond to in a matter of days, not weeks as in most current treat.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 1:32pm mrmdc

BBC News -- Scientists are developing a male contraceptive drug which stops the development process of sperm... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102. Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus. He accidental.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris St.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- A drug which may protect the body against damage from radiation has been developed by US scientists. It is hoped it could make radiotherapy safer for people with cancer and could also be used in the event of a "dirty bomb" or nuclear disaster. Known.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Nov 22, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- An annual report on drug use says around 4.5 million Europeans are likely to have used cocaine in the past year - a million more than in 2006. The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) says the increase in cocaine seizures and quantities also confirms its status as.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- Nearly two-thirds of academic leaders surveyed at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals have financial ties to industry, illustrating how pervasive these relationships have become, researchers say. Serving as paid consultants or accepting industr.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- A contraceptive drug that avoids the side effects of hormonal birth control is on the horizon, say scientists. An American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference was told a technique called "RNA interference" could stop sperm entering the egg... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

MSNBC -- A federal investigator has found sparse government scrutiny of the safety of drug trials involving millions of people, saying inspectors are few and their findings are rarely followed up, a newspaper reported Friday. A report due to be released Friday.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- The Food and Drug Administration received 2½ times more reports of serious health problems linked to medication in 2005 than it did in 1998, a study reports today. The Food and Drug Administration received 2½ times more reports of serious health prob.. Read More