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Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Oct 19, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...

1930s drug slows tumor growth

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 06, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 1

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...

Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 3

A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.

Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 11, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 5

(AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents ...

Use of antipsychotic medications by children and adolescents associated with significant weight gain

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Many pediatric and adolescent patients who received second-generation antipsychotic medications experienced significant weight gain, along with varied adverse effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic ...

FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by biotechnology firm Genzyme.

Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia

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8 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.

High Blood Pressure Medicines Show Promise for Treating Heart Disease

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two medications commonly used to treat high blood pressure appear to be effective in treating one of the most common and potentially deadly forms of heart disease, according to a report by ...

Study: Cholesterol drugs may improve flu survival

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves - cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.

'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 05, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 4

The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.

Study: HPV vaccine hurts less than expected

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Injections of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine appear to be no more painful than other shots that prevent disease, according to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

Increased stroke risk from birth control pills

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

She was only 30 years old, but she was experiencing the classic symptoms of a stroke. Her speech suddenly became slurred, and her left hand became clumsy while eating.

Benefit of memantine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease not proven

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

There is no scientific proof that patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer's disease benefit from drugs containing the agent memantine. This is the conclusion in the final report that the Institute for Quality and Efficiency ...

World's largest malaria vaccine trial now underway in 7 African countries

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Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A pivotal efficacy trial of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The trial, ...