Pharmaceutical News and Articles
MONDAY, Nov. 2 -- Chemicals used in food packaging, paper and textile coatings may affect blood cholesterol levels in people, U.S. researchers have found.
Previous studies have found that polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) are present in the bodies...
MONDAY, Nov. 2 -- Though someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 20 seconds, many Americans lack basic knowledge about the potentially life-threatening disease, according to a new survey from the American Diabetes Association.
Diabetes is...
SUNDAY, Nov. 1 -- New research holds bad news for health officials worried about a potentially lethal infection called MRSA that haunts hospitals: A strain that infects the bloodstream is five times more deadly than other strains.
To make matters...
SATURDAY, Oct. 31 -- A drug designed to fight anemia appears to double the risk of stroke in patients with diabetes and kidney disease without substantially improving their quality of life, a new study finds.
Darbepoetin alfa, marketed as Aranesp...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- Seniors with dementia are diagnosed with flu less often, have shorter hospital stays and are 50 percent more likely to die than those without dementia, says a U.S. study that looked at flu and pneumonia in adults 65 and...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continues to present a major public health problem, said scientists gathering at one of the world's largest infectious diseases meetings Friday.
Chief among the concerns are resistant...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- At least 114 U.S. children have now died from laboratory-confirmed H1N1 swine flu, including 19 during the past week -- the largest one-week increase since the outbreak began in April, U.S. health officials said Friday.
But these...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- As you carve your Halloween jack-o-lantern, consider this new finding: That pumpkin holds potential as a treatment for yeast infections in adults and babies.
Korean researchers, reporting online recently in the Journal of...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- Exposure to whooping cough will provide immunity for an average of three decades, new research suggests.
Doctors had previously thought that immunity lasted for much less time. But the new study, by researchers based at the...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- Here's a new reason to put down that sugary soft drink: Research suggests that a diet high in fructose, a common sweetener, boosts the risk of high blood pressure.
High-fructose corn syrup is found in many processed foods and...
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 -- Pregnant women head the list of people who should get H1N1 swine flu and seasonal flu shots, and four new studies highlight the benefits of vaccination for moms-to-be and their babies.
Bigger, healthier newborns, fewer preterm...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- Up to 5.7 million cases of H1N1 swine flu hit the United States between April and July, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That number came from a model that estimated that for...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- Stroke patients taken directly to a designated stroke center are much more likely to receive the clot-busting drug tPA than those taken to the nearest hospital, says a new study.
If given within the first few hours after a...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- U.S. researchers say they've spotted the first case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu virus passing between two people -- raising the specter that more widespread resistance will render the antiviral drug less useful in combating...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- Treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers doesn't increase rheumatoid arthritis patients' risk of cancer, new research has found.
TNF is a substance secreted by immune cells that regulates the immune system and plays...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- Anabolic steroids, taken by some athletes to build muscle and strength, can cause kidney disease, new research suggests.
Doctors haven't previously realized that the steroids, which are known to cause many health problems, also...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- Statins, frequently used to cut cholesterol levels, may also help prevent death from severe flu, a new study suggests.
According to the researchers, a growing body of evidence suggests that statins -- which include medicines...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- The drug teriparatide is better at increasing bone density and reducing vertebral fractures in patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis than the drug alendronate, a new study finds.
Glucocorticoids are steroid hormones...
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 -- As daylight hours dwindle, people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can often feel the onset of wintertime depression, but a new study suggests one type of remedy may work better than another at banishing the SAD...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 -- Diet and exercise can keep diabetes at bay for a decade, cutting the risk for the disease by more than a third in the most susceptible people, a new study finds.
About 11 percent of U.S. adults (24 million) have diabetes,...
