http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The EU's health commissioner is in favour of a new round of Europe-wide DNA tests to check for the presence of horsemeat in beef products, following a scandal earlier this year that rocked confidence in food safety standards. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-eu-health-commissioner-favours-horsemeat.html Health Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:10:01 EST news290104428 A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison over the sale of an adulterated teething drug which killed 84 babies in 2008. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nigerian-court-killer-teething-drug.html Other Fri, 17 May 2013 14:31:29 EST news288016302 In a surprise move, federal health regulators have denied a request by Endo Health Solutions to block generic versions of its painkiller Opana ER, which the company argued can be more easily abused than its branded product. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-fda-denies-block-painkiller.html Medications Fri, 10 May 2013 17:12:44 EST news287424756 (Medical Xpress)—When it comes to posting on social media, there are few areas of our lives that are off limits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sick-social-online.html Health Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:00:04 EST news283165034 Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday that a new patent on one of its top drugs, anti-inflammatory painkiller Celebrex, extends its U.S. patent protection by 18 months, potentially bringing the company a few billion dollars in additional revenue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-pfizer-painkiller-longer-patent.html Medications Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:48:46 EST news281717320 (AP)—Six horse carcasses that tested positive for an equine painkiller may have entered the human food chain in France, Britain's food regulator announced Thursday—and the agency's chief said horsemeat tainted with the medicine may have been sold to consumers "for some time." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-uk-horse-drug-human-food.html Health Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:44:23 EST news280064637 A change in the formula of the frequently abused prescription painkiller OxyContin has many abusers switching to a drug that is potentially more dangerous, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-oxycontin-formula-abusers-heroin.html Medications Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:00:11 EST news261242628 The prescription drug methadone is linked to over 30 percent of painkiller overdose deaths, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-methadone-linked-percent-painkiller-overdoses.html Medications Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:56:25 EST news260592963 (HealthDay) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Monday will weigh the wisdom of allowing new clinical trials of a class of powerful painkillers for osteoarthritis. The drugs may have worked so well for some patients that those patients wound up needing knee replacement surgery because they overworked their already damaged joints. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-fda-panel-chance-class-painkillers.html Medications Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:40:01 EST news250778922 University of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver transplant to survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-math-tylenol-overdose-patients.html Medical research Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:10:06 EST news249541795 Researchers at King's College London have discovered how one of the most common household painkillers works, which could pave the way for less harmful pain relief medications to be developed in the future. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-reveal-paracetamol-pain-relief-medicines.html Medical research Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:20:56 EST news241183249 Parents who give young children prescription painkillers should take extra care to make sure they give just the right amount. What they may be surprised to learn, however, is that the dose given to them by the pharmacy could be too high, according to research to be presented Saturday, April 30, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Denver. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-errors-infants-children-overdose-painkillers.html Medications Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:07:00 EST news223362404