Results of drug tests Challenged – a possible side effect of medication-related macular degeneration

"I was treating patients and to measure pressure, and I was surprised to see that some of these people, their intraocular pressure was higher, and they didn''t have a diagnosis ...

Postmenopausal women using NSAIDs reduces risk of death apparently from colorectal cancer

These data were presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held October 22 to 25, 2011. "Our results suggest that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ...

Post recovery support common Career BP pill

The discovery, based on a study with rats, there was only because the team, led by Susan Fagan, professor of clinical and administrative pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy at ...

Current 3-medication for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Found Harmful

"These results highlight why the treatments have been rigorously evaluated," said Susan B. Shuri, MD, Acting Director of NHLBI. "This combination therapy is widely used in patients with IPF, but ...

Anti-HIV Topical Gel protects against herpes virus

The study is the result of international cooperation in the Belgian, Italian and American laboratories, senior authors, Professor Jan Balzarini from the Rega Institute for Medical Research in Belgium, Professor ...

New avenues for drug development

Most of the compounds showed activity against a wide range of bacteria and fungi, but were not toxic to mammalian cells, and thus potentially open a new path for the ...

Study examines use of high blood pressure medicines for dementia Treat

The team of researchers from the University of Bristol sought to determine whether the drugs used to treat hypertension, especially those that specifically reduce the activity of a biochemical pathway ...

Medication Safety in the U.S. House

Children under age 6 have the highest rate of unintentional poisoning, and acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. In the pilot study, "Acetaminophen and ...

Called wonder drug to prevent blindness in patients with cataracts

The drug has been developed by researchers at the University of Adelaide and the University of Canterbury. The drug works by inhibiting a protein called calpain was found to play ...

FDA approved the combination of diabetes, cholesterol pill

Juvisync linking the drugs sitagliptin and simvastatin "is the first product of a type-2 diabetes drug, a cholesterol-lowering drug in a tablet to combine," said Mary Parks, the U.S. Food ...