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US authorities on Thursday warned makers of medical devices and hospital networks to step up efforts to guard against potential cyber attacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-cyber-medical-devices.html Medications Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:56:12 EST news290354163 Atomic medicine has "fantastic potential" for fighting deadly, difficult to treat cancers, the head of French nuclear giant Areva's medical arm told AFP in an interview. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-optimistic-radioactive-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:10:01 EST news290058489 GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia, restricted in the US and banned in Europe over concerns it raises heart attack risk, is getting a second look this week by US medical experts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-experts-heart-diabetes-drug.html Medications Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:30:03 EST news289667148 Health Minister Marisol Touraine on Friday said France would apply the same bans to electronic cigarettes as it does to tobacco but would not completely outlaw the popular smokeless product. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-france-restrictions-e-cigarettes.html Health Fri, 31 May 2013 12:30:01 EST news289220082 An experimental sleeping pill from US drug company Merck is effective at helping people fall and stay asleep, according to reviewers at the US Food and Drug Administration, which could soon approve the new drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-pill-poised.html Medications Tue, 21 May 2013 17:50:01 EST news288376487 Cancer research tends to involve small studies focused on a single therapy, often falling short of scientific standards seen in other medical investigations, said a study released Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cancer-falls-short.html Cancer Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:14:46 EST news286481679 More than 100 doctors from around the world have signed a letter decrying the high cost of cancer drugs which reach $100,000 per year or more, and calling for pharmaceutical companies to ease prices. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-doctors-cancer-drug-high.html Medications Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:35:55 EST news286202148 Merely two months into the new year and we have already seen a plethora of local and international efforts aimed at curbing what appears to be the inexorable rise of obesity. Some of these initiatives are starting to reset the agenda for the community discussion around obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-day-anti-obesity-campaign.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:00:01 EST news281356753 After years of research, the first bionic eye has seen the light of day in the United States, giving hope to the blind around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-bionic-eye.html Ophthalmology Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:21:02 EST news279310852 Research published today in the Lancet Neurology shows that taking the antiepileptic drug valproate during pregnancy affects the IQ of children up to the age of six. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-reveals-long-term-effects-child-iq.html Medications Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:30:02 EST news278098291 Half of the benefit of taking sleeping pills comes from the placebo effect, according to a major new study published in the British Medical Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pills-benefits-placebo-effect.html Medications Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:01:03 EST news275068840 The US Food and Drug Administration is investigating 13 deaths that may be linked to consumption of an energy drink called 5-hour Energy, an FDA spokeswoman said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fda-energy-drink-linked-deaths.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:36:28 EST news272223368 The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research announced today the submission of a New Drug Application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Fluorodopa F 18 positron emission tomography (PET) scan used to diagnose parkinsonian syndromes. Earlier this year, the Feinstein Institute received FDA approval under an Expanded Access Investigational New Drug (IND) program, permitting the Feinstein Institute to receive reimbursement for the use of the diagnostic tool in clinical research studies. This was the first time the FDA approved payment for Fluorodopa F 18 PET studies in parkinsonian syndromes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-feinstein-submission-drug-application-parkinsonian.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:57:34 EST news272120187 When regulatory systems for medical products in low-and middle-income countries work, people live but when such systems fail, people die, according to experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-product-regulatory-low-and-middle-income-countries.html Health Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:10:11 EST news270225325 On Friday September 28, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel unanimously voted 19-0 that the probable benefit of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System outweighs the risks to health, an important step toward the FDA market approval of this product manufactured by Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. In making this determination, the panel spent ten hours carefully reviewing and discussing data submitted from the international clinical trial of this innovative retinal implant that, for the first time ever, partially restores vision to patients who are blind due to Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fda-sight-ii-retinal-prosthesis.html Ophthalmology Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:03:12 EST news268455784 South Korea will spend over half a million dollars on building floating toilets around shellfish farms to boost sanitary controls, officials said Wednesday, after US health authorities warned of contamination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-korea-deploys-toilets.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:19:21 EST news266649550 Women with severe aortic stenosis are 40% less likely to die after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) than men, reveals the latest data from the largest study to date of gender differences in outcomes after TAVI. The findings were presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Professor Karin Humphries from St. Paul's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-women-die-tavi-men.html Cardiology Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:30:01 EST news265370859 US health researchers said Thursday that they have documented lead poisoning risks among pregnant women who took Ayurvedic medicine and issued a new warning on the safety of traditional pills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-poisoning-ayurvedic-medicines.html Health Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:20:01 EST news264945379 The benefits of taking statins to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease outweigh the increased risk of developing diabetes experienced by some patients who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cardiovascular-benefits-statins-outweigh-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:30:01 EST news263738102 A new type of heart valve surgery known as transcatheter aortic valve implantation "cannot be justified on medical or cost effectiveness grounds" warn experts in a paper published in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-minimally-invasive-heart-valve-surgery.html Cardiology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:30:01 EST news262968994 Clinicians and laboratory professionals often rely on manufacturers' package inserts to assess the accuracy of diagnostic medical tests. However, package inserts frequently greatly overstate such tests' accuracy, according to a case study of package inserts for tuberculosis (TB), which is published in the July 2012 Journal of Clinical Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-package-inserts-overstate-diagnostic-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:48:52 EST news261762517 The UN agency tasked with fighting AIDS on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the United States to allow the use of an HIV prevention pill for the first time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-unaids-drug-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:38:40 EST news261725914 (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, the latest milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-truvada-pill-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:08:13 EST news261662862 (Medical Xpress) -- The discovery of a new drug for liver cancer by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and local medical practitioner has born fruit. After completing clinical trials locally, the new drug known as "BCT-100" has become Hong Kong's first "Investigational New Drug" (IND) granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hong-kong-anti-cancer-drug-granted.html Cancer Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:13:47 EST news260172801 Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is under investigation over a failure to properly report adverse drug side-effects, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-roche-probed-faulty-drug-safety.html Medications Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:02:17 EST news259516928 An advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday urged US regulators to approve a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis made by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-panel-urges-pfizer-arthritis.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Wed, 09 May 2012 18:08:51 EST news255805725 The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday questioned the safety of DMAA, a stimulant used in dietary supplements, alleging that marketers were illegally selling the chemical. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-watchdog.html Medications Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:10:14 EST news254769007 The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that generic drug makers can challenge big-name pharmaceutical firms in court to stop them from broadening the scope of their patent descriptions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-supreme-court-drug-makers.html Medications Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:33:23 EST news253927980 A ground fish product known as "tuna scrape," imported to the United States from India, was blamed Monday for a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 116 people, US health authorities said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-sushi-tuna-blamed-salmonella-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:04:04 EST news253818237 US regulators will decide in July whether to approve Qnexa, the first obesity drug in more than a decade, extending the initial deadline by three months, the California-based drug-maker VIVUS said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obesity-drug-july.html Medications Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:15:20 EST news253278870