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Belviq, the new miracle diet drug? Fat chance.
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.A new diet drug went on the market Tuesday. It’s expensive and has to be taken the rest of the patient’s life to continue to work. It comes with a long list of possible side effects, including common ones such as dizziness, fatigue and...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Weight, Pharmaceuticals, Orlistat (drug), Obesity
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FDA panel recommends continued Avandia sales, with restrictions
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market with a slate of restrictions on its use, and suggested that although evidence of the drug's safety problems may have been overblown,...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Cardiologists, Avandia (drug), General Practitioners, Voting
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Daily sunscreen use slows signs of aging skin, study finds
As if reducing the threat of skin cancer was not enough, scientists report that they have shown using sunscreen daily can slow the signs of aging skin -- even into middle age. Skin ages as people age, obviously. The sun is a major culprit in the skin&...
Tags: Skin Cancer, Physical Conditions, Internists, Science and Technology, Drugs and Medicines
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FDA approves an old drug for morning sickness
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a drug to treat the severe nausea and vomiting that some women experience during early pregnancy. The Canadian-made medication will be marketed as Diclegis. It is the only prescription medication...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Heavy Engineering, Drugs and Medicines
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Another vaccine fails to prevent staph infections, study finds
Staph infections remain a significant problem for hospital patients, and scientists are trying to develop vaccines to prevent Staphylococcus aureus bacteria from establishing itself in vital areas like the heart, lungs or blood. But it’s turning out...
Tags: American Medical Association, Vaccines, Heart Surgery, Diseases and Illnesses, National Institutes of Health
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Government shuts down HIV/AIDS vaccine trial
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.In another major setback for efforts to develop a vaccine to boost immunity to the human immunodeficiency virus, known as HIV, a key clinical trial was ordered shut down this week after an independent panel of safety experts found that participants...Tags: AIDS, Vaccines, Allergies, HIV, Diseases and Illnesses
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Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?
About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...
Tags: Heart Attack, Cardiologists, Medical Procedures and Tests, Internists, American Heart Association
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A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession
Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...
Tags: Bank of America Corp., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Internists, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Here's why you've got a hangover.
Did you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a few too many green beers? Are you experiencing the medical condition commonly known as a hangover? As you do your best to cope, you might take some solace in the fact that scientists believe humans have...
Tags: Symptoms, Fatigue, Food and Drug Administration, Substance Abuse, St. Patrick's Day
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‘World War Z’: Martin Scorsese, others join audiobook cast
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“World War Z,” author Max Brooks' best-selling novel about the aftermath of a worldwide zombie epidemic, has an almost supernatural ...... -
Science isn't on the drug warriors' side [Blowback]
Former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Robert Bonner wrote in his Feb. 1 Blowback article, "There is still no such scientific study establishing that marijuana is effective as a medicine." Nonsense. Over the last several years, the state...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , University of Arizona, Health Treatments, Food and Drug Administration, Substance Abuse
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The DEA's marijuana mistake
For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Barack Obama, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Substance Abuse, Science
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