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Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy

A severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome will be treated with a new drug called Banzel, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday as an extra supplement against the terrible disease. The FDA approved the drug after several tests were made.

Patients aged between 4 and 30 years old were the...

Annual Vaccinations Nearing

A public health advisory panel voted on Monday to require all children in New Jersey who attend preschool or are in day care to get annual flu vaccinations, despite opposition from numerous parents and children’s rights advocates. Before the vote, some parents who believe in a link between vaccinations and autism spoke against the...

Merck Recalls 1.2 Million Doses of Children's Vaccines

Merck & Co Inc. on Wednesday voluntarily recalled about 1.2 million doses of its widely used children's vaccines after quality-control checks found production equipment may not have been properly sterilized. The vaccines protect against Hib disease (Haemophilus influenzae type b), which used to be the leading cause of bacterial...

FDA Approves Warning For Carbamazepine

U.S. health officials said on Wednesday that a genetic test can tell if patients of Asian ancestry are more likely to develop a life-threatening skin reaction to certain drugs that treat epilepsy and other conditions. Manufacturers of the drugs, which contain the active ingredient carbamazepine, have agreed to add to the...

New Avandia Study Reaffirms Heart Risk

An independent analysis of thousands of older people with diabetes found that those treated with the widely used drug Avandia had significantly elevated risks of heart attack and death. The finding, published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, could rekindle the debate about whether Avandia, a...

Adding Antibiotics to Medication May Slow Ms

A new US study suggests that adding antibiotics to current medication for treating multiple sclerosis could slow down the disease. The study is published in the early online issue of the Archives of Neurology and is the work of Dr Alireza Minagar, of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, and...

Ibuprofen Preserves Lung Function in Kids with Cystic Fibrosis

According to a U.S. researchers report, the common pain reliever and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen significantly slows the decline in lung function seen in children with cystic fibrosis. A team at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, found that children with cystic fibrosis who took high doses of...

FDA Gives Heads- Up on Glaxo Asthma Drugs

Government advisers recommended Wednesday that GlaxoSmithKline add more language about risks in children to its asthma drugs Serevent and Advair. The Food and Drug Administration said it would continue studying the safety of the treatments for children and plans to hold another panel meeting to address that question. Both drugs...

Sirtris Drug May Fight Age Diseases

According to scientists at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc., they have created a drug that mimics the ingredient in red wine linked to longevity and the cell structures that power endurance athletes like cycling champion Lance Armstrong. The new molecule is 1,000 times more potent than the wine derivative, resveratrol, and could lead...

Tamiflu under Observation

The FDA has appointed a Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday which will review reports of abnormal behavior and other brain effects in more than 1,800 children who had taken the flu medicine Tamiflu since its approval in 1999, including 55 in the USA. Twenty-two of the U.S. reports were considered "serious,"...

Pain Relived With Marijuana, Depends On Dose

According to a recent study, smoking a moderate amount of cannabis (marijuana) may relieve pain but smoking high doses may increase pain. "Previous studies have suggested that smoked cannabis increases pain," lead investigator Dr. Mark Wallace of the University of California, San Diego told Reuters Health. "This is...

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Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy
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