News tagged with drug advertising


Despite some benefit, drug ads can be harmful to your health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While the debate over prescription drug advertising persists, a new study released online in the American Journal of Public Health offers guidelines for improving drug ads in order to minimize potential harm and maximize ...


Legal loophole exposes Canadians to drug advertising banned in US: UBC research

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A legal loophole is counteracting Canada's ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising and has exposed Canadians to more than $90 million worth of ads, including those for drugs with life-threatening risks, according to a ...





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Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police (AP)

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

Technology / Other

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.


Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from ...


Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...


WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.


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First anti-seizure drug for newborns to be developed

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UCL Institute for Child Health are developing the first anti-seizure drug specifically for newborn babies, with the aim of reducing brain damage.


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor Pat Guiry have solved a chemistry problem that has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...


Message gone viral? Blame it on altruistic, yet image-conscious Internet  'e-mavens'

Message gone viral? Blame it on altruistic, yet image-conscious Internet 'e-mavens'

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather "cyber-dust" on the information superhighway? The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email ...


This curvaceous humanoid made of layers of cardboard is billed as the first eco-friendly robot

Robo-chefs and fashion-bots on show in Tokyo

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Forget the Transformers and Astroboy: Japan's latest robots don't save the world -- they cook snacks, play with your kids, model clothes, and search for disaster victims.


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Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 2

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...


Web sites aim to survive with hyperlocal focus

Technology / Internet

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables, Fla., Web site is among a few locally with faith it can succeed.



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