http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Companies may be misusing the drug patenting system in order to gain control over high-cost drugs in Australia, research from the Melbourne Law School has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-misuse-drug-patenting-health-billions.html Medications Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:21:59 EST news284804511 The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the anticlotting drug Eliquis, developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Pfizer Inc. It's a potential blockbuster drug in a new category of medicines to prevent strokes and heart attacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-fda-anticlotting-drug-eliquis.html Medications Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:54:15 EST news275939650 When Linda Tuttle was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined her experience would inspire her colleagues to design new treatments to tackle the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-trojan-horse-drug-therapy-approach.html Cancer Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:20:01 EST news268330092 (HealthDay) -- The blockbuster drug Plavix (clopidogrel), used to prevent clotting in some heart patients, will go off patent in the United States on Thursday, making it considerably more affordable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-plavix-status-boon-patients.html Medications Tue, 15 May 2012 16:20:01 EST news256316529 An experimental blood thinning drug made by the pharmaceutical giant Merck may reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack but also boosts the danger of internal bleeding, researchers said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-merck-blood-thinner-results.html Cardiology Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:12:54 EST news251835164 Approval for a new dose of a best-selling Alzheimer's drug "breached the FDA's own regulatory standard" and has led to "incomplete and distorted messages" about the drug, warn experts in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-experts-fda-dose-alzheimer-drug.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:30:01 EST news251654252 Avastin, the blockbuster drug that just lost approval for treating breast cancer, now looks disappointing against ovarian cancer, too. Two studies found it did not improve survival for most of these patients and kept their disease from worsening for only a few months, with more side effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-avastin-disappoints-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:43:03 EST news244316573 (Medical Xpress) -- Millions of people take statins, the blockbuster drug that lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called bad cholesterol. But as many as 20 percent of them develop adverse effects such as muscle fatigue and weakness and impaired cognition. Rockefeller University scientists Patricia Maningat and Jan L. Breslow, writing in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, argue that clinical trials need to be designed to address the needs of statin-intolerant patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-statin-intolerant-patients-clinical-trial.html Medical research Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:01:46 EST news240825665 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says Merck's cholesterol drug Vytorin helps reduce heart attack, stroke and related problems in patients with kidney disease, a potential new use for the blockbuster drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-fda-vytorin-kidney-disease-patients.html Medications Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:30:12 EST news239283003 What if a new medication for severely ill patients had no role in curing them but made them feel much better despite being sick? Let's say this elixir were found to decrease the pain and nausea of cancer patients, improve the sleep and energy of heart failure patients, prolong the lives of people with kidney failure, drive down healthcare expenditures and ease the burdens of caregivers? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-palliative.html Health Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:35:25 EST news239027714 (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday approved the first generic versions of the blockbuster drug Zyprexa, an expensive treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-fda-versions-zyprexa.html Medications Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:38:47 EST news238693121 For the first time, researchers have discovered cardiac rehabilitation can train the heart to quickly return to its normal rate after exercise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cardiac-heart-recovery-boosts-survival.html Cardiology Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:00:01 EST news236267611 (AP) -- In a case that could affect India's role as drug provider to the developing world, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the government had the right to deny a patent to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for its lifesaving cancer treatment Gleevec. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-novartis-patent-indian-court.html Medications Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:22:55 EST news234523359