Pharmaceutical News and Articles
SUNDAY, July 5 -- Beautiful blossoms aren't the only reward you get from gardening. It's also a good workout.
"Working in your garden is a great way to exercise. Whether pulling weeds or spreading mulch, you are using major muscles all over your...
SUNDAY, July 5 -- Doctors have long used allergy shots to desensitize children and adults to environmental allergens such as bee stings, pollen, mold and dust mites.
Now researchers are trying to apply that theory to food allergies, through...
SATURDAY, July 4 -- While baby boomers are not as young as they used to be, exercise is just as important as ever, but certain precautions are in order to stay injury-free.
"As boomers age, they should take extra steps to protect themselves from...
SATURDAY, July 4 -- Most people are cutting back in these tough economic times, trying to save more and make do with less. But can you cut back when it comes to your health?
As it turns out, experts say you can -- if you're smart about it. There are...
FRIDAY, July 3 -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's disease, suggests a new study.
Researchers, led by a team from the University of California, San Diego, report in the July...
FRIDAY, July 3 -- U.S. researchers say they've found a major cellular flaw that may drive the rapid spread of relapsed lung cancer.
When caught early, lung cancer can often be treated. But most cases are not detected until the disease is well...
-- Before some people develop full-blown diabetes, their blood sugar is above normal, but not high enough to qualify for a diagnosis of diabetes.
This condition is called pre-diabetes, the American Diabetes Association says.
Normally, a person's...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- New information about brain circuit activity may help explain why some people who take the sleep aid Ambien (zolpidem) walk, eat, talk on the phone and even drive while not fully awake -- and without remembering it the next...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- Scientists have uncovered some intriguing clues about why the new swine flu frequently brings on gastrointestinal distress and vomiting, symptoms not usually associated with seasonal flu.
In experiments with ferrets, research...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- A common antibacterial treatment for cystic fibrosis can cause sensorineural hearing loss, finds a new study.
Researchers reviewed the medical records of 50 cystic fibrosis patients treated over a 13-year period at Children's...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- A new targeted therapy shows promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant blood cancer, according to a new study.
Researchers created an antibody (7G3) that recognizes and binds to a molecule called...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- Banning the popular painkillers Percocet and Vicodin, which a U.S. health advisory panel has urged, would not be as drastic as it sounds, some medical experts contend.
The reason, they say, is that other options are...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Many More Kids Vaccinated For Hepatitis A
One-dose hepatitis A vaccination coverage among U.S. infants ages 24 months to 35 months increased from...
THURSDAY, July 2 -- Multaq (dronedarone) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to promote a normal heart rhythm in people with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. These conditions cause the heart to beat too quickly...
-- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch and ClinicalConnection.com:
Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial
If your child (boys aged five to eight and girls aged five to seven) has had allergy symptoms for at least one year, he or she...
-- Medication used to control asthma may be used every day, without the fear of becoming addicted, the American Academy of Family Physicians says.
So-called controller medications help prevent inflammation, so users feel better and breathe easier....
WEDNESDAY, July 1 -- The more alcohol men drink, the more time they spend in a hospital, research from the United Kingdom has found.
The study, which involved nearly 6,000 men in Scotland ages 35 to 64, began during the early 1970s. Initially, the...
WEDNESDAY, July 1 -- Results from a new trial have dashed hopes that early use of two blood pressure drugs could slow the loss of kidney function caused by type 1 diabetes.
But the study, reported in the July 2 issue of the New England Journal of...
WEDNESDAY, July 1 -- Older people who signed up for Medicare's prescription drug coverage, called Part D, spent more on drugs after enrolling than they had before but less on other types of medical care, researchers have found.
Their study, in the...
WEDNESDAY, July 1 -- Elderly men who exercised and received the growth hormone known as "mechano growth factor" (MGF) showed increased muscle mass, according to a British study.
The results suggest that MGF may help treat age-related loss of muscle...
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