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General Health : Drug News Last Updated: May 8, 2008 - 4:15:10 PM You can avoid 75% diseases following a healthy diet. Subscribe to food consumer newsletter now! Looking to get a new credit card? USCards.com offers more than 100. General Health : Drug News Patch contraceptive poses higher risk Public Citizen today submitted a petition to the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to pull off Ortho-Evra Patch, a contraceptive made by Johnson and Johnson, from the market in six months. May 8, 2008 - 4:13:51 PM General Health : Drug News HPV vaccine: What doctors do not tell you There is something about HPV vaccine parents can't learn from doctors.  This article lists some facts to help parents think through. May 8, 2008 - 1:59:54 PM General Health : Drug News MIT study: New anti-obesity drug not good for kids Anti-obesity drugs that work by blocking brain molecules similar to those in marijuana should not be used in children, a new animal study reported in the May 8 issue of Neuron suggests. May 8, 2008 - 8:30:47 AM General Health : Drug News Medical Product Safety Network Newsletter #24, May 2008 Important Notice to Manufacturers and Initial Distributors of Medical Devices That May Contain Heparin Or Are Heparin-Coated ** FDA Makes Recommendations on Medical Devices That Treat Blocked Heart Arteries **  Preventing Accidents and Injuries in the MRI Suite ** Alarm Interventions during Medical Telemetry Monitoring: A Failure Mode & Effects Analysis **  Preventing the Retention of Foreign Objects during Interventional Radiology Procedures **  Low Frequency Magnetic Emissions and Resulting Induced Voltages in a Pacemaker by iPod Portable Music Players ** FDA's Office of In Vitro Diagnostics Has Approved the Following New Devices for Marketing. Apr 30, 2008 - 2:53:52 PM General Health : Drug News Taking aspirin may cut breast cancer risk moderately The U.S. government has found a new potential medical application for aspirin.  This time, the drug may be taken to prevent breast cancer, Reuters reported citing a study published in BioMed Central's open-access journal Breast Cancer Research. Apr 30, 2008 - 2:41:03 PM General Health : Drug News Osteoporosis drug doubles risk of atrial fibrillation Fosamax, a drug used to treat osteoporosis doubles a woman's chance of developing atrial fibrillation, according to a study released Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. Apr 29, 2008 - 9:35:04 AM General Health : Drug News Coronary Artery Plaque Imaging Device Cleared by FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing a device that a doctor can use to see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of the plaque which builds up on the wall of the coronary arteries. Apr 29, 2008 - 8:33:25 AM General Health : Drug News Contaminant in heparin identified scientifically Now there is some scientific evidence to prove that the contaminant found in heparin associated with hundreds of allergic reasons and up to 81 deaths is a man-made chemical known as oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, according to a new study. Apr 24, 2008 - 4:49:28 PM General Health : Drug News Learning about LASIK LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. The goal of this Web site is to provide objective information to the public about LASIK surgery. See other sections of this site to learn about what you should know before surgery, what will happen during the surgery, and what you should expect after surgery. There is a glossary of terms and a checklist of issues for you to consider, practices to follow, and questions to ask your doctor before undergoing LASIK surgery. Apr 24, 2008 - 3:55:42 PM General Health : Drug News New way to fight Alzheimer's disease German scientists published a paper in the April 25, 2008 issue of Science saying that Alzheimer's disease may be treated by targeting discrete sub-compartments in the cell membrane (RAFTS). Apr 24, 2008 - 1:57:10 PM General Health : Drug News Update on heparin contamination The Food and Drug Administration has early told the Chinese Manufacturer of a key heparin ingredient that it does not adequate means to ensure the ingredient is made free of impurities, The Associated Press reported today. Apr 21, 2008 - 2:54:20 PM General Health : Drug News For Some, GSK's new diet drug is A Lie not Ally Since GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) high profile launch of alli last summer, the first FDA approved diet drug sold over the counter, the only figures that have flattened are sales. Apr 18, 2008 - 9:57:09 AM General Health : Drug News CDC Media Briefing: Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Welcome and thank you all for standing by.- At this time, I would like to remind parties that your lines are in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session, at which time you may press star, one to ask a question and star, two to withdraw your question.- Today's call is being recorded.- If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time.- I will now turn the meeting over to Curtis Allen.- Thank you sir, you may begin. Apr 17, 2008 - 3:55:39 PM General Health : Drug News Interim Within-Season Estimate of the Effectiveness of Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine --- Marshfield, Wisconsin, 2007--08 Influenza Season During clinical trials, the efficacy of vaccination with inactivated influenza vaccines for the prevention of serologically confirmed influenza infection has been estimated as high as 70%--90% among healthier adults. However, the effectiveness of annual influenza vaccination typically is lower during those influenza seasons when a suboptimal match between the vaccine strains and circulating influenza strains is observed. Apr 17, 2008 - 10:22:22 AM General Health : Drug News Review of Therapeutic Equivalence : Generic Bupropion XL 300 mg and Wellbutrin XL 300 mg Between January 1 and June 30, 2007, FDA received 85 post-marketing reports in which patients who switched from Wellbutrin XL 300 mg to Teva’s bupropion formulation (Budeprion XL 300 mg) experienced an undesirable effect. Apr 16, 2008 - 5:31:13 PM General Health : Drug News Hormone therapy may not prevent dementia Hormone therapy using estrogen or estrogen plus progestin does not help reduce dementia risk, according to a new study. Apr 16, 2008 - 8:58:57 AM General Health : Drug News Minutes or no minutes, that is the question for Vytorin makers to answer Two democrats have reportedly raised questions about how Merch & Co Inc and Schering-Plough Corp documented a key meeting about a controversial study of their cholesterol drug Vytorin. Apr 15, 2008 - 12:16:22 PM General Health : Drug News Suicides Seen in Healthy, Non-Depressed People Taking Lilly's Cymbalta Ask about published reports of 470 completed suicides of people on antidepressants since Prozac debuted in 1988  www.ssristories.com and the drug industry will say that's depression for you. Without our drugs, it would be worse. Apr 15, 2008 - 11:34:07 AM General Health : Drug News Find the Latest Drug Product and Safety Information The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) takes a comprehensive approach to making information on potential drug risks available to the public, says Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director of Safety Policy and Communication in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Apr 14, 2008 - 1:10:41 PM General Health : Drug News FDA: impurity found in Cubicin Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. informed healthcare professionals that a potentially significant impurity, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), has been isolated from reconstituted Cubicin stored in with ReadyMED elastomeric infusion pumps manufactured by Cardinal Health, Inc. Apr 12, 2008 - 4:11:25 PM General Health : Drug News FDA: Recall of Neupro Schwarz Pharma informed healthcare professionals and patients of the recall of Neupro, a transdermal delivery system worn on the skin and used to treat early stage Parkinson’s disease, at the end of April 2008, because of the formation of rotigotine crystals in the patches. Apr 12, 2008 - 4:05:41 PM General Health : Drug News FDA: Pfizer updates warning about Exubera There have been 6 newly diagnosed cases of primary lung malignancies in clinical trials among Exubera-treated patients, and 1 newly diagnosed case among comparator treated patients. Apr 12, 2008 - 4:02:06 PM General Health : Drug News FDA: CellCept, Myfortic linked to progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy This information reflects FDA’s current analysis of available data concerning these drugs.  Posting this information does not mean that FDA has concluded there is a causal relationship between the drug product and the emerging safety issue.  Nor does it mean that FDA is advising health care professionals to discontinue prescribing this product. FDA is considering, but has not reached a conclusion about whether this information warrants any regulatory action.  FDA intends to update this document when additional information or analyses become available. Apr 12, 2008 - 3:58:10 PM General Health : Drug News Drug may reduce radiation damage A study published in the journal Science said a new drug developed by a company known as Cleveland BioLabs Inc may help reduce damaging effects of radiation on healthy cells, Reuters reported. Apr 11, 2008 - 12:53:44 PM General Health : Drug News Non-medical use of cognitive enhancers common in academics A survey by the journal Nature found many healthy academics are using prescription drugs indicated to treatment of attention deficit disorders to boost their brain power.  Respondents were surveyed for their use of three drugs and or their attitudes toward use of these drugs for non-medical purposes. Apr 10, 2008 - 4:57:09 PM General Health : Drug News Mumps vaccine not effective as expected The mumps outbreaks among college students that occurred in 2006 suggested that the second dose of mumps vaccine may not be as effective as expected, according to a study published in the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Apr 10, 2008 - 10:37:33 AM General Health : Drug News Estrogen therapy raises benign breast disease risk Women who were treated with estrogen therapy had to face higher risk of breast disease than previously thought. A new study found those who took conjugated equine estrogen were more than twice as likely as those who took placebo to develop specific types of benign breast disease. Apr 9, 2008 - 9:01:55 AM General Health : Drug News Oncophage approved in Russia, what you need to know Antigenics' Oncophage treatment for kidney cancer patients was approved for use in Russia, according to news media reports.  Also published here are common questions and answers about this drug. Apr 8, 2008 - 10:54:04 AM General Health : Drug News Alligator's blood full of antibiotics Alligators' blood may not be snake oil.  New research suggest that their blood may serve as a source of powerful antibiotics for treating infections associated with ulcers, burns and possibly drug resistant superbugs. Apr 7, 2008 - 3:17:47 PM General Health : Drug News FDA Drug Safety Newsletter - Winter 2008 Drugs for Acute Pancreatitis; Sudden Hearing Loss; and Serious Skin Reactions Apr 6, 2008 - 12:32:18 PM << prev next >>

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