Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy
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...

Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy
 
 

Viagra May Treat Muscular Dystrophy
Viagra may protect the hearts of people with a common form of muscular dystrophy, a study suggests. A team of researchers showed that the administration of sildenafil, the active ingredient in drug maker Pfizer Inc's Viagra, to mice with an animal version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy protects their heart. This study was led by...

Viagra May Treat Muscular Dystrophy

Novartis Brings Out New Vaccine against Meningitis
Swiss drug producer Novartis AG developed the positive results of the meningitis vaccine they experimented. The company expects to file for regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe this year, according to what Joerg Reinhardt declared to Reuters. The vaccine is called Menveo, it allegedly prevents the development of four types of...

Novartis Brings Out New Vaccine against Meningitis

Vietnamese Girl Affected by an Extremely Rare Facial Tumor
A fifteen-year-old Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor which threatens to suffocate her. Now she is in Miami, waiting for surgery to remove the tumor and to restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center will remove it in a 10-hour laborious surgery. The little...

Vietnamese Girl Affected by an Extremely Rare Facial Tumor

Teens Arrested after Trying to Give Drugs in Exchange for Alcohol
Three juveniles were arrested Thursday after on April 4 Boulder police had received a complaint by Nevin Platt Middle School officials who said a student had brought two prescription drugs to school to give them to another student in exchange for alcohol. The prescription drugs were Strattera and Concerta, two medicines usually...

Teens Arrested after Trying to Give Drugs in Exchange for Alcohol

Scientists Use Cognition-Enhancing Doping
A new study in the journal Nature has highlighted that scientists use frequently brain-enhancing drugs. A total of 1,400 people from 60 countries responded to an online survey revealing that at least one in five use prescription drugs to improve their focus, concentration, or memory.The most used drug is methylphenidate, better known for...

Scientists Use Cognition-Enhancing Doping

Scientists Discovered a New Drug that Protects Against Radiation Damage
A recent discovery of a new drug which may protect the body against the effects of radiation has been made by US scientists. The drug could improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy in treating cancer. During the experiment, mice and monkeys were protected against the damaging effects of radiation, researchers said on Thursday....

Scientists Discovered a New Drug that Protects Against Radiation Damage

Hormone Replacement Raises Breast Lump Risk
Yet another nail in estrogen replacement therapy's coffin: prescription hormone replacement pills have been found to increase the risk of benign breast disease. The risk was doubled for women taking the prescription hormone treatment, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.The research, by Dr....

Hormone Replacement Raises Breast Lump Risk

Heparin-Linked Death Toll Triples to 62
The Food and Drug Administration has announced yesterday that it received 62 reports of deaths during the last 15 months of patients who were treated with the blood-thinner heparin and suffered allergic reactions or low blood pressure. This is more than triple the initial estimate of 19 deaths.The figure includes deaths of patients...

Heparin-Linked Death Toll Triples to 62

FDA Approves Oral Rotarix Vaccine for Infants
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it approved the use of Rotarix, a rotavirus vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, in infants from 6 to 24 weeks of age. The regulator said that while there are many strains of rotavirus, the vaccine protects againts four of them, codenamed G1, G3, G4, and...

FDA Approves Oral Rotarix Vaccine for Infants

AIDS Drug Doubles Heart Attack Risk
A major study conducted in the United States, Europe and Australia has found that a popular AIDS drug roughly doubles the risk for heart attacks. The substance, abacavir, is one of three types of drugs used in combination to prevent the deadly HIV virus from replicating."This is a head-scratcher, in the sense that we don't really...

AIDS Drug Doubles Heart Attack Risk
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