Medications
Why drug names are so increasingly weird
Naming a brand drug is a lot harder than it used to be.
Mar 31, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Publication bias and 'spin' raise questions about drugs for anxiety disorders
A new analysis reported in JAMA Psychiatry raises serious questions about the increasingly common use of second-generation antidepressant drugs to treat anxiety disorders.
Mar 30, 2015
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Medications
FDA to scrutinize unproven alternative remedies (Update)
Federal officials plan to review the safety and evidence behind alternative remedies like Zicam and Cold-Eeze, products that are protected by federal law, but not accepted by mainstream medicine.
Mar 26, 2015
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Medications
Questions over value of new antibiotics to tackle resistance
In the first installment of a new series, Peter Doshi, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Associate Editor at The BMJ, asks why authorities are approving drugs with little evidence they ...
Mar 26, 2015
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Medications
FDA approves new drug for anthrax poisoning
Federal health officials say they have approved an infusible drug to treat patients who have been exposed to anthrax.
Mar 25, 2015
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Health
Three organic food companies recall products over listeria fears (Update)
Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns.
Mar 24, 2015
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Medications
New hepatitis C drugs will place strain on health care system
The cost of treating people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with newly approved therapies will likely place a tremendous economic burden on the country's health care system. The prediction comes from a cost-effectiveness ...
Mar 16, 2015
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Health
E-cigarettes can be regulated now without more research, expert says
A legal scholar and tobacco control expert says he has developed a research-based roadmap that allows for the immediate regulation of e-cigarettes.
Mar 13, 2015
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Medications
FDA wants more info on scopes linked to "superbug" outbreaks (Update)
Federal health officials issued multiple announcements Thursday aimed at addressing growing safety concerns about medical scopes that have been linked to several recent "superbug" outbreaks.
Mar 12, 2015
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Pediatrics
Preterm babies continue to receive inhaled nitric oxide
Inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNO) is a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration that is commonly used in term and near-term neonates who have severe respiratory failure caused by pulmonary hypertension. Over the last decade ...
Mar 9, 2015
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