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 Amgen's experimental platelet-stimulating drug may have safety issues, although it seems effective. An analysis by the US Food and Drug Administration has concluded that an advisory panel will have to evaluate five safety risks which appear connected with the drug. The panel will meet tomorrow.Romiplostin, known for its trade name...
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 Eli Lilly, the drug maker, is charged of having concealed
the dangers the dangerous side effects of Zyprexa to protect sales of the
popular schizophrenia medicine.
If they put a warning on this product, their sales would
fall," Scott Allen, an attorney for Alaska said Wednesday, in the state’s
lawsuit against the drug...
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 Concerns about the safety of heparin extended to Germany on
Thursday, after many patients reported problems caused by the blood thinner to
drug authorities.
A large number of dialysis patients in Germany experienced
racing heartbeats and rapidly dropping blood pressure, after taking the drug.
The number of adverse events was...
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 GlaxoSmithKline will not be prosecuted for not informing UK regulators about safety issues concerning its drug Seroxat. The British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced that the decision was taken because there was "no realistic prospect of a conviction in this case," as the legislation at the time,...
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 Lapdap, the GlaxoSmithKline anti-malaria medicine, has
almost completely disappeared from the Kenyan market, All Africa.com informs.
It seems that the drug was not commonly prescribed by
doctors to patients locally, so most pharmacists had stopped stocking it.
"We stopped selling the drug in December 2006...
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 A new research study reports that women who took estrogen
and progestin hormones to ease the menopause symptoms still had an increased
cancer risk after ending the therapy.
The study was developed by the Women’s Health Initiative and
involved more than 16,000 women who used the estrogen and progestin combination
drug,...
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 A new study shows that widely used antidepressants such as
Prozac are only efficient for very severely depressed patients, Science Daily
reports.
Irving Kirsch, from the University of Hull,
and his colleagues, analyzed the patients’ response to antidepressants to see
if antidepressant therapy depends on how badly depressed...
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 Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is spreading faster than
medical experts had expected, according to a report the World Health
Organization issued on Tuesday.
In a survey involving 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries,
the WHO found that levels of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis were much higher
than expected.
The...
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 Studies show that drugs used for fatigue and anemia could actually
do more harm to patients than help them, especially if they are not given in
the correct doses, Reuters informs.
Researchers say that the drugs, erythropoiesis-stimulating
agents or ESAs, raise the risk of death by 10 percent in patients who took them
compared...
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 Medical researchers are on the
right way to find a cure for one of the deadliest and widely spread forms of
cancer, the cervical cancer. They have already designed a vaccine which is most
effective when administered to girls between 9 and 26, especially before
becoming sexually active.
The researchers are intending to...
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