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Pill That Reduces The Second Chemotherapy Ordeal
According to an international Phase III clinical trial, led by researchers at The University of...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance To Start A Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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FDA Panel Says Wrinkle Fillers Should Carry Stronger Warnings
Labels of popular cosmetic wrinkle fillers should carry
stronger warnings about potential side...
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Beauty Has Its Price: Wrinkle Fillers Tied to Serious Side Effects
It appears that beauty has its price if considering the
latest news for the Food and Drug...
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Childhood Allergies, Asthma Problems Require More Attention
A report released last month by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has
revealed that...
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Statins Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes, May Benefit Healthy People Too
Heart attacks and strokes may be cut by
roughly 50 percent among patients who receive preventive...
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Testosterone Patches Designed to Boost Postmenopausal Women’s Libido Work
It is known that a lower estrogen level following menopause is one of the culprits behind a...
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Lung Cancer Treatment Drug Tarceva Makes the Disease Possible To Treat
The drug Tarceva, made by OSI Pharmaceuticals has been found to cause an increase in survival rates...
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OSI Shares Gain, Despite Preliminary Results, Tarceva Meets Its Goal
Shares of OSI Pharmaceutical rose $5.25, or 15 percent, to $40.65 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq...
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Covidien Syringes Recalled
After a series of drugs were recalled by pharmaceutical companies for dangerous side effects, it...
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Testosterone Patch Might Improve Sexual Desire In Women
There is a known fact that there aren’t any specific treatments for postmenstrual women to regain...
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Pfizer, Sanofi-Avensis End Studies on Diet Drugs
Pfizer Inc.and Sanofi-Aventis on Wednesday separately announced their
decision to cancel further...
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Insulin Syringes Recalled over Mislabeling and Overdose Risk
The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting doctors and
patients that Tyco Healthcare Group...
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Testosterone Is The Solution For Low Sexual Desire
An international study lead by researchers in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and Europe showed that...
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Pfizer Halts Phase III Trial On Obesity Drug Over US Rejection Fears
Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, on Wednesday
said it abandoned an obesity drug known...
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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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Due to The Amputee’s Case The Reach of Drug Warning Labels Is Finally Being Reconsidered
As they hear arguments in the case of Diana Levine against the drug company Wyeth, the U.S. Supreme...
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FDA Approves Toviaz to Treat Patients with Overactive Bladders
The FDA has approved a new drug, Toviaz, to treat patients with overactive bladders, a disorder...
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New Drug to Deal with Overactive Bladder
Patients who suffer from overactive bladder can now hope for better as the FDA approved a new...
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Combined Therapy Is The Best Cure For Disabling Anxiety
A government-financed study, which tracked nearly 500 patients for several months in treatment,...
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Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, Painful Joints Show Breast Cancer Treatment Works
Women who experience hot flashes, night
sweats and painful joints when taking the anti-cancer...
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Update: Bayer Warned over Aspirin Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent
a warning letter to Bayer Health Care saying the...
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New Drug Found to Improve Outcomes for Gout Patients
Savient Pharmaceuticals has found a new
drug that may be used to treat serious cases of gout, a...
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Wyeth: New Version of Prevnar Has Positive Results in Study
A news study presented Monday at the joint annual meeting of
the Interscience Conference on...
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Cost Of Diabetes Care Has Doubled In Six Years
Americans with diabetes nearly doubled their
spending on drugs and expensive treatments for...
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Doctors Recommend An Earlier Start In Treating HIV
AIDS is one of the most disastrous diseases of our current and last centuries, and HIV is the virus...
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Early HIV Treatment Shows 70% Improvement in Survival
HIV patients who began treatment earlier than is currently recommended lived longer compared to...
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Sales of Sanofi’s Anti-Obesity Drug Acomplia Suspended In Europe
Warnings about Sanofi-Aventis’ anti-obesity
rimonabant (Acomplia) had always accompanied the drug,...
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Leukemia Drug Found To Stop MS
Recently, an outstanding discovery in the field of medicine and in the fight with multiple...
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Study Bashes Violent Video Games, Links Them to Aggressive Behavior in Kids
Despite their huge popularity among young and adult players,
video games continue to remain a...
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HIV Treatment Is Most Efficient when Started Earlier, Study Says
US and Canadian researchers suggests that starting HIV
treatment earlier than currently...
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Tobacco Plant Could Aid Patients With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
The tobacco plant could actually aid
patients with follicular B-cell lymphoma, US researchers...
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Congress Report: Bush Administration Changed Environmental Policy
A new congressional report reveals that the Bush administration changed their initial standing on...
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Scientists: Watermelon Has Viagra-Like Benefits for ED, No Side Effects
Scientists with the Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center have found that an...
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Anesthesia Found to Elevate Post-Surgical Pain
Anesthesia drugs used for cutting pain during surgery may paradoxically
increase pain and...
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Study: Melanoma Cured 100% through Blood Cell Therapy
The results of a new study conducted by a research team at
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
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Update 1: Phoenix Made Its First Dig, Collects A Soil Sample
Phoenix
has collected a sample of Martian soil, after it made its first dig. The sample
will be...
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Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies
The U.S researchers have discovered a new technology to
identify and clone human antibodies...
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Cooling The Planet…Not A Solution For Global Warming, Study Finds
While some scientists suggested
that by injecting sulphate compounds into the upper atmosphere,...
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NASA Releases Largest Collection of Hubble Images
In celebration of the 18th anniversary of Hubble’s launch, NASA
released a series of 59 new images...
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Nature: Scientists Are Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs
An informal survey conducted by the journal Nature about the
usage of drugs that “boosts the brain...
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Another Side of The Story: Nature Responsible For Global Warming
Now that we’ve all been warned
we should prepare for global warming and that it’s imperative to...
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Study Finds Global Warming To Reduce Atlantic Hurricanes
What do we know about global
warming in terms of positive effects? Not much, as the possible...
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Caffeine May Prevent Memory Loss In Women
Probably you know already about some of the effects of
caffeine, but it seems there are still...
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Diabetes Drugs from the Past Work in the Present Too
Researchers at John Hopkins University have found out that old medicines used to treat type 2...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance to Start a Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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Take Your Statins To Prevent Heart Attack!
Half of heart attacks and strokes happen
among apparently healthy men and women with normal or low...
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Drug Company Wyeth Sued By Vermont Musician
Drug company Wyeth has been sued by a Vermont musician after an injection with an anti-nausea drug...
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New Drug for Overactive Bladder Approved: Toviaz
Overactive bladder patients can now find relieve in Toviaz,
a drug made by Germany’s
Schwarz...
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Toviaz Gets FDA Clearance For Overactive Bladder
US regulators on Friday approved Toviaz (fesoterodine fumarate) for patients suffering from...
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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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Supreme Court Hears Case on the Effects US Navy Sonar Has on Whales
On
Wednesday, a Supreme Court weighed the pros and cons of a federal
judge's decision to limit...
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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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Palin, Biden fight over change, economy, war on terror
Washington - US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality...
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Two Rival Biotech Companies Receive Approval to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and
PharmAthene of Annapolis received separate federal...
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David Blaine Not Dead, Body Functioning Normally
Illusionist David Blaine has survived his latest feat of
endurance with no lasting side effects it...
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Shorter, More Intense Radiation Proves Effective For Breast Cancer
Women suffering from breast cancer in its incipient stage
could benefit from a shorter, more...
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FTC Wants Bogus Cancer Cures out of the Internet
People who suffer from cancer should forget about the
miraculous cures promised on hundreds of...
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Chemical Suppressing Hunger Hormone Might Be The Answer To Obesity
Blocking production of a hormone called ghrelin, which
creates the sensation of hunger, could be...
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Literature world mourns novelist David Foster Wallace
Los Angeles - The world of literature Monday was mourning American novelist David Foster Wallace,...
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Update: FDA Reveals List Of Drugs Posing Health Risks
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to raise
awareness on possible side effects of...
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The Earth Is Skating on Thin Ice. Literally
This year, the Arctic sea ice level might just break the
record set only last September, since...
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Just 1 in 5 Men Screened for Prostate Cancer Last Year
Although the American Cancer Society strongly recommends
annual testing, starting with at the age...
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Prostate Screening’s Efficiency In The Elderly Questioned
Prostate-cancer screening or the PSA test for men aged 75 or
older should be stopped because there...
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‘Magic’ Pills Turn Ordinary Mice Into Athletes By Mimicking Exercise
For all of us who are kind of lazy or simply do not find the necessary time to exercise the...
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FDA Panel Recommends New Arthritis Drug Approval
An FDA panel voted Tuesday 10 to 1 for the approval of a new drug that fights against rheumatoid...
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Hormone Therapy Not Efficient in Older Men with Prostate Cancer
A new study published in the July 9 issue of the Journal of
the American Medical Association...
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Watermelon Could Be the Answer to a Great Sex Life
If you need to spice up your sex life, a slice of watermelon may be the answer.According to...
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Levels of THC in Marijuana - The Highest in 30 Years
The levels of tetrahydracannibinol or “THC,” the active chemical in
marijuana that produces the...
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Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well
Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to
ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix...
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Bay Area Air Regulators to Charge for Greenhouse Gases
Bay Area Air Quality District, an agency for air pollution regulations in the San Francisco Bay...
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Dennis Quaid Tells Congress About Twins Overdose
Appearing before Congress on Wednesday, American actor Dennis Quaid testified about the nightmare...
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Consumer Group Presses FDA for Birth Control Patch Withdrawn
A consumer advocacy group petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday for the...
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