http://www.physorg.com/health-news/medications/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on medicine, health, medications, medicines and prescriptions. In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity. http://www.physorg.com/news177941049.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:04 EST news177941049 (PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently. http://www.physorg.com/news177922617.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:02 EST news177922617 (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right. http://www.physorg.com/news177919791.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:40:07 EST news177919791 Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their performance enhancing qualities. The availability of authentic SARMs was recently demonstrated for the first time by the detection of the drug candidate Andarine in a product sold via the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news177839683.html Medicine & Health - Medications Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:01 EST news177839683 More than six percent of expectant mothers in Quebec consume prescription drugs that are known to be harmful to their fetuses, according to a Université de Montréal investigation published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Half these women will voluntarily terminate their pregnancy fearing congenital malformations, which means the abortion rate among these women is 11 percent higher than in the rest of the population. http://www.physorg.com/news177692561.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:30:02 EST news177692561 (AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. http://www.physorg.com/news177690830.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:34:41 EST news177690830 (AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news177687676.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:50:18 EST news177687676 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two large studies confirmed that an investigational, reversible anti-clotting medication failed to show greater effectiveness than clopidogrel or a placebo for patients undergoing a procedure to open blocked coronary arteries, according to researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news177679625.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:40:03 EST news177679625 (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals. http://www.physorg.com/news177616461.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:55:07 EST news177616461 The drug flibanserin, which was originally created as an antidepressant, is effective in treating women with low libido, pooled results from three separate clinical trials have found. http://www.physorg.com/news177592107.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:18 EST news177592107 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news177572645.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:01 EST news177572645 (AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by biotechnology firm Genzyme. http://www.physorg.com/news177342105.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:10:03 EST news177342105 (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 showed. http://www.physorg.com/news177184811.html Medicine & Health - Medications Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:46 EST news177184811 (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 and other Web sites. http://www.physorg.com/news177165326.html Medicine & Health - Medications Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:03 EST news177165326 British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has announced that US regulators have approved its swine flu vaccine for adults in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news177154938.html Medicine & Health - Medications Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:01 EST news177154938 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 Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news176727215.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:55:03 EST news176727215 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 prescribe antibiotics for respiratory tract infections if they perceived parents were expecting a prescription. http://www.physorg.com/news176702660.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:05:22 EST news176702660 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. http://www.physorg.com/news176664344.html Medicine & Health - Medications Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:40:02 EST news176664344 (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 is going first to the privileged. http://www.physorg.com/news176650104.html Medicine & Health - Medications Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:02 EST news176650104 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. http://www.physorg.com/news176620927.html Medicine & Health - Medications Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:50:01 EST news176620927 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems. http://www.physorg.com/news176562848.html Medicine & Health - Medications Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:38 EST news176562848 (PhysOrg.com) -- With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers - Advil, Tylenol, aspirin - at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system. http://www.physorg.com/news176466143.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:50:01 EST news176466143 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new research paper suggests that pharmaceutical companies can afford to produce less expensive vaccines for lower-income countries because the companies can recover their research and development (R&D) costs through the sale of the vaccine to higher-priced markets. The findings are included in an article co-authored by University of Victoria health economist Rebecca Warburton being published this week in the journal Vaccine. http://www.physorg.com/news176456892.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:48:50 EST news176456892 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, which is expected to involve up to 16,000 children, is on schedule, with more than 5,000 children already enrolled, researchers announced Tuesday at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Malaria Conference. http://www.physorg.com/news176448702.html Medicine & Health - Medications Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:34:00 EST news176448702 (AP) -- U.S. regulators have refused to accept drugmaker Merck & Co.'s application for a new, combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer's Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug. http://www.physorg.com/news176409729.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:50:05 EST news176409729 Healthy pregnant women mount a robust immune response following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, according to initial results from an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health. http://www.physorg.com/news176404935.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:04 EST news176404935 A wireless digital 'plaster' that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in a new clinical trial run by Imperial College London researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news176396422.html Medicine & Health - Medications Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:03 EST news176396422 (AP) -- A senior adviser to President Barack Obama says the government will catch up to the demand for swine flu vaccine within a week. http://www.physorg.com/news176309076.html Medicine & Health - Medications Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:45:54 EST news176309076 (AP) -- A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are not yet sick enough to need dialysis. http://www.physorg.com/news176193603.html Medicine & Health - Medications Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:50:03 EST news176193603 (AP) -- A single dose of swine flu vaccine is enough to immunize adults and children over 10 against the pandemic strain, the World Health Organization said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news176120744.html Medicine & Health - Medications Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:01 EST news176120744