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Glaxo’s Avodart Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s drug Avodart appears to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 23...
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Announce New HIV Drug Company
Britain’s biggest drugs company GlaxoSmithKline and US rival Pfizer announced Thursday...
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FDA Warns 14 Drugmakers for “Misleading” Ads on the Internet
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday faulted 14 pharmaceutical companies for...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Steroids Don’t Help Kids Wheezing from Colds, May Even Harm Them
Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveal that giving steroids to...
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Expanded Use of Merck’s Gardasil Postponed By FDA
The situation of Merck’s papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is uncertain after the Food...
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Flu Strain Resistant To Antiviral Treatment Found This Season
Physicians have found a recently mutated strain of flu that resists the most commonly...
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Drug-Resistant Influenza Strain
Doctors in Norway discovered that there is a drug-resistant influenza strain which might be linked...
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Watson Wins FDA Approval For Mint-Flavored Nicorette
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Watson Laboratories, Inc. has...
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Health Authorities: US Flu Strain Resistant to Tamiflu
United States health authorities warned the population that the current strain of flu circulating...
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FDA Wants More Study for Diabetes Drugs to Better Asses for Heart Risks
More than a year after GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s Avandia was linked to higher risk of heart...
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FDA Panel Rules: Two Popular Asthma Drugs Risky, Advair and Symbicort Safe
A Food and Drug Administration panel said Thursday that the risk of taking the asthma medications...
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Advisory Panel Rules Advair Is Safe
A U.S. advisory panel ruled on Thursday that
GlaxoSmithKline Plc's widely prescribed drug Advair...
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FDA Panel Calls for Restriction on Two Asthma Drugs
A US Food and Drug Administration panel decided on Thursday that two asthma drugs pose serious...
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2 Diabetes Drugs Affect Women’s Bones
A new British analysis found that Avandia and Actos, two widely prescribed diabetes drugs, could...
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Malaria Vaccine, In Development
Malaria is very well-known disease, part of the vector-borne diseases. It has been discovered that...
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Glaxo Malaria Vaccine Proves Successful in Early Tests
Researchers have been trying for years to develop a vaccine for malaria, the deadly, mosquito-borne...
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A Vaccine Against Malaria That Promises to Drastically Cut Infection Rates
Researchers reported on Monday that a revolutionary vaccine against
malaria protected up to 65...
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The National Influenza Vaccination Week Is Here! Get Your Shot!
National Influenza Vaccination Week is set for Dec. 8 – 12. Therefore,
Americans are all invited...
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Asthma Meds Under FDA’s Investigation
A Food and Drug Administration report concerning four drugs used to treat asthma said the products...
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FDA Issues Warnings on Four Asthma Drugs
On Friday,
two Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials released a statement on the
agency’s...
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Study: Diabetes Drug Avandia Riskier Than Actos
Older diabetics taking Avandia may face higher risk of heart
failure and death than those taking...
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NPR Radio Host Caught With Ties to Drug Companies
Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin is a psychiatrist of some import,
as well as the host of the popular...
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Radio Host Involved In Drug Company Commercial Interests
Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who for over a year has been leading an investigation...
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Early HIV Treatment Cuts Babies’ Death Risk
A study in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that, for infants with...
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Our Bodies Can Now Be Successfully Tricked Into Losing Weight
According to the magazine Cell Metabolism published today, French researchers claim to have...
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Experimental Drug “Lures” The Body Into Burning Off Fat
Couch potatoes all over the world, here’s your chance to
lose weight due to a “magic” pill, which...
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Consumer Group Urges FDA to Ban Glaxo’s Avandia over Liver Failure
Consumer group Public Citizen on Thursday asked the Food and
Drug Administration to ban...
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CDC Calls Merck’s Gardasil Safe
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Immunization Safety Office on Wednesday...
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Emory University Denied $9.3 Million Grant from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has
announced its decision to postpone a $9.3 million...
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Drug Found to Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer
Avodart, a drug currently approved for the treatment of noncancerous enlarged prostate, also lowers...
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FDA Wants 14 Drugmakers to Stop Misleading Ads
The Internet is full of promotional ads of drugs and I am sure you thought at least once in your...
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Merck’s Gardasil Denied Approval Once Again
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve Gardasil for women 27 to 45 for the...
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Expanded Use of Merck’s Gardasil Postponed Once Again
The situation of Merck’s papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is uncertain after the Food and...
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Epilepsy Drugs Must Carry a Suicide Risk Warning
Epilepsy drugs must carry a new warning about the risk of suicidal thoughts or actions, U.S....
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Experimental Malaria Vaccine May Protect Infants, Children
Results from a malaria vaccine trial have so far shown promise that it may open new pathways for...
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Radio Host Continues to Be Investigated for Drug Companies Ties
Dr. Fred Goodwin, a popular radio host of
the NPR program, “The Infinite Mind,” has reportedly...
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“Red Wine” Drug Fights Against Obesity Regardless of Diet
Are scientists one step closer to finding the secret weapon in the fight against obesity and...
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Avandia Risks Ban over Liver Toxicity
GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s diabetes drug faces harsh criticism as
the Washington, D.C.-based group...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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Emory Psychiatrist Did Not Report Drug Income
Congressional
investigators have revealed that Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory
University, one...
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Flu Season Is Almost Here, Get Vaccinated, CDC Recommends
In an attempt to reduce the number of people getting
influenza or dying from it, on Wednesday, the...
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FDA Makes This Year’s Flu Vaccines Public
As autumn is approaching, people should be ready to welcome
the flu season. And the best way to do...
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A Glass of Red Wine May Hold the Secret to Longevity
Researchers may be closer than ever to discover the secret to
longevity, as new research by...
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FDA: Patients Should Switch to HFA Inhalers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory Friday
saying patients should give up...
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Manufacturers to Boost Number of Flu Vaccines for Next Season
Despite inefficiency of the flu vaccines this year in the U.S., the five
companies manufacturing...
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