http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Among fibromyalgia patients taking either of two commonly prescribed drugs to reduce pain, 22 percent report substantial improvement while 21 percent had to quit the regimen due to unpleasant side effects, according to a new review in The Cochrane Library. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drugs-fibromyalgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:20:05 EST news278844198 (AP)—Eli Lilly and Co. said Friday its 2013 earnings will grow more than Wall Street expects, even though the drugmaker will lose U.S. patent protection for two more key products this year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-eli-lilly-profit-tops.html Other Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:56:40 EST news276512193 The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients, a new study finds. This is the first clinical trial to find an effective treatment for this pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-antidepressant-relieve-pain-chemotherapy.html Cancer Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:20:07 EST news257925118 In a first-ever comprehensive study of the species origins of nature-derived drugs, it is shown that drug-producing species are concentrated and clustered in a limited number of families, refuting the conventional view that as every nature species produces biologically active molecules, one can find drugs from almost any major block of species groups if one looks for them hard enough. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-future-drugs-family.html Medications Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:46:01 EST news234524727