News tagged with adverse events
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Antibiotic shows promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
When tested in patients hospitalized with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) unresponsive to previous treatment, linezolid, an antibiotic used to treat severe bacterial infections, proved largely effective when ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 18, 2012 |
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Less-invasive method of brain stimulation helps patients with Parkinson's disease
Electrical stimulation using extradural electrodes—placed underneath the skull but not implanted in the brain—is a safe approach with meaningful benefits for patients with Parkinson's disease, reports the October issue ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Oct 16, 2012 |
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Zonisamide 400 mg enhances weight loss for obese
(HealthDay)—A prescription medication originally developed to treat epilepsy may help obese adults shed weight when combined with routine nutritional counseling, researchers say.
Overweight and Obesity
Oct 16, 2012 |
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'Mother's kiss' safe and effective for removing foreign objects from children's noses
A technique called the "mother's kiss" for removing foreign objects from the nasal passages of young children appears to be a safe and effective approach, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). ...
Other
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Tadalafil effective, safe in complete erectile dysfunction
(HealthDay)—In men with complete erectile dysfunction (ED), tadalafil 2.5 and 5 mg once-daily result an in intercourse success rate of 32.4 and 46.4 percent, respectively, according to research published ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 14, 2012 |
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Severe anemia linked to poorer heart surgery outcomes
(HealthDay)—Adults undergoing cardiac surgery who have moderate-to-severe preoperative anemia have significantly increased morbidity and mortality compared with non-severely anemic patients, according to ...
Surgery
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Drugs similar in efficacy for neuropathic pain in diabetes
(HealthDay)—In the treatment of patients with chronic diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP), there are no significant differences in pain-relief efficacy between amitriptyline, duloxetine, and pregabalin; however, ...
Diabetes
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Commercial weight loss programme evaluated
(Medical Xpress)—Anyone who wants to lose weight has a wide variety of diets to choose from, but knowledge of what works is often poor. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have now evaluated a Swedish ...
Overweight and Obesity
Sep 20, 2012 |
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Statins are unlikely to prevent blood clots, analysis finds
Despite previous studies suggesting the contrary, statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) may not prevent blood clots (venous thrombo-embolism) in adults, according to a large analysis by international researchers published ...
Cardiology
Sep 18, 2012 |
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Hundreds more bleeding trauma patients could be saved if tranexamic acid was used more widely
The clot stabilizer drug tranexamic acid can be administered safely to a wide range of patients with traumatic bleeding and should not be restricted to the most severe cases, a study published in the BMJ today suggests.
Cardiology
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Adding ketamine to opioids doesn't reduce cancer pain
(HealthDay)—Using subcutaneously administered ketamine in a dose-escalating regimen as an adjunct to opioids and standard co-analgesics does not have any clinical benefit in relieving cancer pain, but it ...
Cancer
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Addition of tiotropium effective in poorly controlled asthma
(HealthDay)—For patients with poorly controlled asthma, the addition of tiotropium to standard therapy is beneficial, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coi ...
Immunology
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Bristol-Myers recalls vials of cancer drug
(AP)—Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is recalling more than 31,000 units of a chemotherapy drug after discovering one vial was overfilled, putting patients at risk of an overdose.
Medications
Aug 30, 2012 |
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Smoking after stroke increases death risk by three-fold
Patients who resume smoking after a stroke increase their risk of death by three-fold, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Professor Furio Colivicchi from San Filippo Neri Hospital. The researchers also ...
Cardiology
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Renal denervation improves blood pressure and arterial stiffness
Renal denervation improves blood pressure and arterial stiffness in patients with therapy resistant hypertension, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Mr Klaas Franzen from the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein. ...
Cardiology
Aug 27, 2012 |
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