News tagged with therapeutic doses


Acute gastric injury due to high-dose analgesics?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Analgesics, NSAIDs and acetaminophen, are commonly used for the relief of fever, headaches, and other minor aches and pains. The gastrointestinal side effects of NSAIDs are well documented and acetaminophen is accepted to ...





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Parkinson's disease medication triggers destructive behaviors

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study conducted at Mayo Clinic reports that one in six patients receiving therapeutic doses of certain drugs for Parkinson's disease develops new-onset, potentially destructive behaviors, notably compulsive gambling ...


Nasal swine flu vaccine recalled over potency

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Drugmaker Medimmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time.


Amphetamine use in adolescence may impair adult working memory

Amphetamine use in adolescence may impair adult working memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rats exposed to high doses of amphetamines at an age that corresponds to the later years of human adolescence display significant memory deficits as adults - long after the exposure ends, researchers report.


Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 2

Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as "cognition enhancers" has recently surged among the healthy, as well


Using morphine to hasten death is a myth, says doctor

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 02, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Using morphine to end a person's life is a myth, argues a senior doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. It follows the case of Kelly Taylor, a terminally ill woman who went to court earlier this month for the right to be ...


Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.


Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...


NPL unveils new equipment to make cancer treatment safer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new piece of medical technology unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) today will help improve the success rates of radiotherapy cancer treatments. The new clinical electron linear accelerator (linac) will help ...


Genetics determine optimal drug dose of common anticoagulant

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 21, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic testing can be used to help personalize the therapeutic dosage of warfarin, a commonly-used anticoagulant, according to research published in the September 1, 2007, issue of Blood, the journal of the American Societ ...


Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology ...



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