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U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available to African authorities to help spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology may eventually be used to combat the fake drug trade worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fda-device-screen-fake-medicines.html Medications Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:45:57 EST news286037149 A survey of UK doctors found that 97% have prescribed placebo treatments to patients at least once in their career. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-percent-uk-doctors-placebos-patients.html Medications Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:26:56 EST news283019202 The widely held belief that the UK supply of innovative new medicines has conspicuously dwindled in recent decades, is not borne out by the evidence, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-myth-uk-pharma-drugs.html Medications Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news280604669 In a first-ever comprehensive study of 124 natural product combinations, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tsinghua University, led by Professor Chen Yu Zong from the Department of Pharmacy at the NUS Faculty of Science, found that certain combinations of natural products can be as effective as man-made drugs in acting against specific disease processes. However, the chances of finding the effective combination of natural products could be as low as below 3 per cent.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-natural-products-effective-synthetic-drugs.html Medications Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:24:08 EST news279444239 An international collaboration of researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Tunisia and France has demonstrated a high cure rate and remarkably few side effects in treating patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) with an investigational antibiotic cream. CL is a parasitic disease that causes disfiguring lesions, with 350 million people at risk worldwide and 1.5 million new cases annually, including U.S. military personnel serving abroad and the socio-economically disadvantaged in the developing world, especially children. The results of the research conducted by USAMRMC, the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, the Tunisian Ministry of Health and the Institut Pasteur in Paris were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-antibiotic-cream-high-side-effects.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:00:05 EST news279388049 (Medical Xpress)—New drugs to treat diabetes are being developed by scientists at the University of Greenwich. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drugs-diabetes-scientists-power.html Diabetes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:04:47 EST news277553078 The number of prescription drugs that can have serious adverse effects from interactions with grapefruit are markedly increasing, yet many physicians may be unaware of these effects, states an article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The article, a review by the researchers who discovered the interactions more than 20 years ago, summarizes evidence to help clinicians better understand the serious effects this common food can have when consumed with certain prescription drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-grapefruit-medication-interactions.html Medications Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:39:01 EST news273155931 Chances are, your medicine cabinet contains some pills that are past their expiration date. You might even have some pain relievers, some cough syrup or some sleeping pills that were purchased back when Richard Nixon was in the White House. But you can't seem to throw them away because you suspect they might still be OK to take. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-drugs-fine-years-expire.html Medications Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:08:14 EST news269024883 When it comes to minor complaints, chronic conditions and even fatal illnesses, we often turn to ginseng and other herbal remedies. That is why traditional Chinese medicine has become an integral part of our life. But how many of us really know the effectiveness of these Chinese medicines from various sources? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bridge-gap-chinese-western-medicine.html Medications Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:45:47 EST news268901132 (HealthDay) -- A new system of caring for people with dementia in their homes could keep them from having to move into nursing homes and improve their quality of life, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-home-based-teams-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:00:01 EST news261850077 (HealthDay) -- A counterfeit version of the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug Adderall, sold online, contains the wrong active ingredients, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-fake-version-adhd-drug.html Attention deficit disorders Wed, 30 May 2012 11:20:01 EST news257591167 Criminal gangs are increasingly using the internet to market life-threatening counterfeit medicines and some have even turned up in legitimate outlets such as pharmacies, according to a review led by Dr Graham Jackson, editor of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice, and published in the March edition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fake-drug-sales-internet-legitimate.html Medications Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:45 EST news249131736 Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC), in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health, have found numerous prescription and over-the-counter drugs and supplements use certain chemicals called phthalates as inactive ingredients in their products. The findings appear on-line in Environmental Health Perspectives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-phthalates-numeruous-medicines-supplements.html Health Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:30:02 EST news243148277 Americans' medicines are increasingly manufactured in developing countries, where oversight is lower than in the U.S., according to a new white paper by the Pew Health Group. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates 40 percent of finished drugs and 80 percent of active ingredients and bulk chemicals used in U.S. drugs come from overseas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pew-gaps-oversight-drug-safety.html Medications Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:46:20 EST news229657555 Herpes infections on the lips, in the eyes or on the nose are painful, long-lasting and unpleasant. A new 3D herpes infection model brings hope: active ingredients and new treatments can be reliably tested with this model. Animal tests could soon be a thing of the past. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-goodbye-cold-sores.html Medical research Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:32:50 EST news226751446