Tagged as: pharmaceuticals
FDA Approves Oxycontin For Teens
Oxycontin, a frequently abused drug that relieves serious pain, has been approved for children and teens between the ages of 11 and 16 years old.The FDA approved the drug after commissioning trials that focused on the 11 to 16 demographic to collect re...
Heroin Use Rises in Individuals Abusing Painkillers
Health professionals have historically warned that the recreational use of pharmaceuticals can lead to more serious drug addiction. Recently, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health released a study that confirms the link between opiate abuse and...
FDA Orders Bayer to Issue Stronger Warnings as Yasmin Lawsuits Increase
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Bayer AG to strengthen the blood-clot warnings on products such as Yasmin, which contains a synthetic hormone called drospirenone that has been found to triple the risk for blood clots.Bayer has paid over $4...
Medication Causes… Pneumonia?
Imagine the very medicine that is meant to maintain and restore health by preventing certain illnesses is found to do the exact opposite? Well, a recent study released by the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle has found just that."Our study is ...
Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
Pharmaceutical Companies Price Discriminate H.I.V. Drugs
Harvard researchers published a new study which found that many drugs used to treat H.I.V. are being set at unfairly high prices. The study examined health care plans in 12 states and found that the drugs were being priced using a system of “adverse tierin...
Taboo Medicine: Ayahuasca
The connection between the mind and body is as unbreakable as it is complex. Human beings are unique organisms, leaving health professionals with the never-ending task of uncovering different remedies for disease. Despite all that remains undiscovered, pol...
Overprescription of Antibiotics Drives Major Public Health Concern
A survey conducted by researchers from George Washington, Cornell and Johns Hopkins universities uncovered disturbing findings about patients’ understanding, or lack of, the potential dangers of antibiotic use. The survey revealed a common misconception among ...