drugs

It should be possible to significantly improve the response of common cancers to existing "classical" chemotherapy drugs, say scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), by introducing agents that alter the interaction of cancer cells with their immediate surroundings, called the tumor...

A new study of 6,500 patients, published in the April 11 issue of JAMA, shows that losartan, a primary drug for hypertension, is not linked to a higher all-cause death or cardiovascular death, in comparison with ARB candesartan. Observational studies had indicated that losartan was likely to be...

Scientists at Northwestern University in the US have developed a simple, specialized, star-shaped gold nanoparticle that can deliver drugs directly to the nucleus of a cancer cell. They write about their work in a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano. Senior author Dr Teri W...

Researchers at the University of Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital have identified how neural cells like those in our bodies are able to build up resistance to opioid pain drugs within hours. Humans have known about the usefulness of opioids, which are often harvested from poppy plants, for...

Drugs that are commonly used to prevent osteoporosis may increase the risk of serious inflammatory eye disease in first-time users, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Oral bisphosphonates, the most commonly prescribed class of drugs used to prevent osteoporosis...

When choosing between brand-name and generic, most of us are considering price and doctor recommendations. But what most of us don't realize is that it will make the difference between winning and losing, if your drugs end up causing complications that lead you to take their manufacturers to...

With statistics like those below,thank God that at long last one minister has the courage to speak out about the national insanity,the "War on Drugs" which prosecutes the morally weak: The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about...

Paula Deen announced new plans to lighten up her recipes, in what seems like an unspoken admission that critics are right to be outraged by her promotion of diabetes drugs and embarrassingly fat- and sugar-heavy foods. She says she plans to remain true to herself (read: she's not going to teach...

Fake drugs are increasingly being sold on the Internet in a global counterfeit medicines market that has doubled in the last five years to more than $75 million. The medicines, many of which are life-threatening, have even turned up in the legitimate supply chain and found their way into...

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have published the first detailed figures showing the risk of using the prescription drug Rasilez in combination with certain other blood pressure-lowering medications. The pharmaceutical company Novartis terminated a large, international clinical trial of...

not be decriminalized? CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE "I am never to act otherwise than to will that my maxim should become universal law." PRACTICAL IMPERATIVE "Act to treat humanity, whether yourself or another, as an end-in-itself and never as a means." or any other general arguments for the matter

I'm not a drug addict, as in I'm not physically dependent on drugs, but in many ways I feel I've become almost psychologically dependent on them. I don't think I'm at the point where I need to enter rehab or anything, but I really don't want it to get to that. Usually during the school week I'll...

The FDA approved changes to the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for both Nplate (romiplostim) and Promacta (eltrombopag). According to an FDA-initiated review of the current information, Nplate and Promacta still pose certain safety risks, but certain restrictive requirements of...

A Government Accountability Report released this Thursday showed America's foster children being prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs, at doses beyond what the Food and Drug Administration has approved. At a congressional hearing the same day, Thursday saw lawmakers discussing both the...

Diabetes drugs and blood thinners cause two-thirds of the 99,628 US senior hospitalizations each year because of drug adverse events, researchers from the CDC reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). The authors added that hundreds of millions of dollars could be saved if focus were...

The United States is facing ongoing shortages of several critical anesthesia medications shortages with potentially serious effects on patient care and safety, according to a special article in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia...

Big Boy cook Edwin Ledgard had visions of killing his customers recently, so he dumped animal drugs into a pot of coffee at the Ohio fast food joint in an attempt realize his dream. Thankfully, no one actually drank the coffee, but it's unclear what would have happened if they had; the drug...

Almost half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug, and now a new report tells us that more than 20% of us take at least one medication to treat a mental health problem--a number that is up 22% since 2001. It's an alarming trend for sure, and has us wondering: Are all of these...

...section for raping? Does the most violent person get the spot closes to the port-a-potty?

I have to go for a ultra sound scan in two weeks. There is obviously a problem with my liver so wanted to know if it is something bad and is my reading classed as very high?