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WHO to Intensify Anti-Malaria Fight in Asia-Pacific
The World Health Organization (WHO) vowed on Friday to intensify the fight against malaria in...
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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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New Campaign against Malaria Launched
A new campaign against malaria was announced Friday in Norway by international health agency and...
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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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WHO earmarks 15 billion dollars to curb drug-resistant TB by 2015
Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
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US Prescription Drug Sales Continue to Be Slow in 2008
According to market research firm IMS Health Inc., sales of prescription drugs...
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Mixing Plavix with Stomach Medicines Raises Risk of Death By 25 Percent
Mixing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s anti-clotting Plavix, also known as clopidrogel, with...
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Popular Flu Medicine Is No Longer Efficient Due to Mutations
Researchers reported Monday that Tamiflu-resistant influenza A viruses are now spreading widely...
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Metoclopramide Causes Tardive Dyskinesia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it was requiring manufacturers of...
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Obama’s Budget Outline
President Obama promised more money for conservation and renewable energy in his budget outline...
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Lilly, Daiichi Blood Thinner Prasugrel Gets European Approval
The European Commission on Monday gave its approval for blood-thinning drug Efient for heart...
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Is It Possible to Completely Cure the Common Cold?
Researchers announced on Thursday that they had decrypted the genomes of the 99 strains belonging...
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FDA Starts Battle Against 24 Prescription Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced that it will change some rules in an...
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The Teething Medicine in Nigeria Kills 84 Children
Health officials announced on Friday that at least 84 children from Nigeria have been killed by a...
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Nigerian Families Can Now Fight With Pfizer
An appeals court ruled on Friday that Nigerian families can now sue Pfizer in US courts, with...
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China’s Government Plans to Spend $124 Billion on Health Care Reform
China’s government announced the decision to spend more than $120 billion over the next...
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UNICEF To Provide $5 Million To Zimbabwe Health Sector
UNICEF Executive Director M. Ann Veneman made a three-day visit in Zimbabwe at the end of...
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New Antipsychotics Also Raise Heart Failure Risk
The medical world is forever focusing on developing new treatments, medications and searching for...
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VapoRub, Severe Side Effects In Infants and Toddlers
One of the most popular medical products in the United States is almost-pop-cult Vicks VapoRub....
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Vicks VapoRub Linked to Breathing Problems in Infants
A new study has recently revealed that Vicks VapoRub, a popular cold remedy, could cause airway...
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The Medicines Company to Buy Targanta Therapeutics
Medicines Co. on Monday announced its intention to buy biotechnology company Targanta...
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FDA Allows Drugmakers to Advise Doctors on Off-label Uses
Just days before the Bush administration turns over power to President-elect Barack Obama’s...
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Vicks VapoRub Poses Risks To Children Under 2
Vicks VapoRub, a common cold remedy, may create respiratory problems in infants and small...
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Study Says Bird Flu Could Be Resistant To Drugs
Scientists doubt if anti-viral medication would have any effect in the case of a bird flu pandemic,...
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National Health Spending Continues to Rise, But at Slower Rate
According to a study published in the today’s issue of the journal Health Affairs, national...
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New Treatment For Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer
Researchers said that men with advanced prostate cancer will have the chance to follow a new...
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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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FDA Panel Meeting For Reviewing Prasugrel
An FDA advisory panel will review the blood-cloth preventer prasugrel, according to maker Daiichi...
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Seniors Must Be Careful With Their Medication
A newly released survey shows that about 4 percent of older adults in the United States combine...
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Older Americans Use Dangerous Drug Combos, Survey Finds
A nationwide survey revealed that nearly one in 15 older Americans or 2.2 million people are...
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Epilepsy Drug Could Impair Your Baby’s Cognitive Function
The use of anti-seizure drug valproate while pregnant may cause your baby harm, US researchers said...
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Anna Nicole Smith’s Boyfriend, Doctors Charged with Conspiracy
Ana Nicole Smith’s longtime boyfriend and two doctors were charged on Thursday for giving the...
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Efficacy of Bristol, Sanofi’s Plavix Questioned
The Food and Drug Administration said it has ordered the makers of the widely used blood thinner...
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Vicks VapoRub Might Harm Your Child!
No kid under the age of four should be given the controversial cough and cold medicines, the...
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The Growth Rate in Health Care Spending in US Lower
The increase in health care spending in the US was the smallest since 1998 due to the growing use...
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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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Joshua Sharfstein on Top of the List for Head of the FDA
Joshua Sharfstein, who is currently head of the Baltimore
Health Department, is said to have...
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U.S. Teens Prefer Painkillers, Alcohol and Marijuana to Stimulants and Smoking
Abuse of painkillers continues to be a
problem among teenagers, although fewer of them are smoking...
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Are Popular Asthma Drugs Safe? FDA Panel to Decide on Their Safety
A Food and Drug Administration panel of medical
experts is weighing whether to allow certain...
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It’s Time to Pick a Medicare Drug Plan that Meets Your Needs!
Sign up period for Medicare Part D
started Saturday. This is the time for you to decide and to...
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Blood Pressure Drug Avapro Shows No Benefit in Heart Failure Trial
Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp. and Sanofi-Aventis SA blood
pressure drug Avapro failed in a...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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Anti-Obesity Drug Acomplia Gets Suspended in Europe
The European Medicines Agency wants Sanofi-Aventis SA’s anti-obesity drug Acomplia out of the...
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S. African Health Minister: “We Desperately Need an Effective HIV Vaccine”
South
Africa is the country experiencing one of
the most severe AIDS epidemics in the world....
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Cough, Cold Meds to Have New Labels Banning Use in Kids under 4
No kid under the age of four should be given the
controversial cough and cold medicines! At least...
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FDA Expected to Make a Decision on Kids’ Cough Meds
The American
Academy of Pediatrics is
urging the Food and Drug Administration to demand...
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FDA to Write More Severe Rules for Children’s Cough Medicine
The FDA was petitioned by pediatric experts and consumer groups on Thursday to pull off the market,...
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FDA Postpones Decision To Ban Kid’s Cough Medicine
The US Food and Drug Administration needs more data on whether over-the-counter
cold medicines are...
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FDA To Review Anemia Drug Eprex Following High Rate Of Deaths In Study
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they are reviewing a higher rate of...
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Ayurvedic Medicines Sold Online Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals
Ayurvedic medicines are frequently
contaminated with lead, mercury and arsenic, a new study found....
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Drugs, a Problem for Teens who Say It’s Easier to Get Prescription Drugs
Many teens try alcohol, tobacco, household
chemicals, prescription medicines and illegal drugs....
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Genome Institute’s Renowned Director, Francis Collins, to Resign
The National Human Genome Research Institute is losing one
of its prestigious researchers in the...
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Bill Banning Gifts to Doctors Half Cleared in Massachusetts
More than a month after Massachusetts Senate President
Therese Murray filed a bill banning...
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