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1930s drug slows tumor growth

Nov 06, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 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 ...

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

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 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.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine ...

Perceived parent-pressure causes excessive antibiotic prescription

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Nov 06, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Antibiotic over-prescription is promoted by pediatricians' perception of parents' expectations. Research published in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics shows that pediatricians are more likely to inappropriately prescr ...

GSK swine flu drug approved in US: company

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Nov 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has announced that US regulators have approved its swine flu vaccine for adults in the United States.

Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads

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Nov 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter ...