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Artificial Pancreas Helps Type 1 Diabetics During Sleep

New research suggests that young children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes could benefit by using an artificial pancreas device to lower the risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels during sleep and help them control their disease. The findings, which appear in the Feb. 5 issue of The Lancet, examined ...

Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks

People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. At best the drugs won't help you and at worst they could kill you, the review article said. "You may be wasting your money or you ...

Be Cautious while Buying Drugs online

As we all know purchasing anything on web has become actually simpler and faster but the issue is that's it ok to buy even extremely popular drugs without prescription? Just take an example of a well-liked drug, Lipitor. Buy Lipitor online is simple. Lipitor ( Atorvastatin ) is a well-liked ...

Adding Chemo to Tamoxifen Helps Some Breast Cancer Patients

Adding chemotherapy to standard cancer-suppressing tamoxifen (also manufactured under brand name Nolvadex) can boost survival in postmenopausal women with the most common type of breast cancer, known as estrogen receptor-positive, and it's best given before the tamoxifen regimen starts, according to a new study. "Chemotherapy with Adriamycin adds to your survival ...

WHO approves Glaxo’s swine flu shot

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries. In a statement issued Tuesday, GlaxoSmithKline PLC said WHO had approved its Canadian vaccine after examining its quality and safety data. The vaccine ...

Trials showed Vioxx risk ‘years before withdrawal’

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The risks of taking anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx could have been detected nearly four years before the drug was pulled from the market, according to analysis of nearly 30 clinical trials. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, analyzed 30 Vioxx trials involving around 20,000 ...

Asthma Combo Seems Less Influenced by Genes

THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- People's genetic makeup has been shown to affect how they respond to asthma medications, but a new study finds that many people respond well to a particular combination treatment regardless of their genes. However, the study did find a difference in response among blacks. The drug ...

‘The Pill’ May Reduce Asthma Symptoms

Women with asthma may notice that their asthma symptoms get worse at certain times of the month. Now, a new study confirms that fluctuating female hormone levels appear to affect airway inflammation, but oral contraceptives might help ease those changes. In women who were not using birth control pills, the study ...

Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths

LONDON (AFP) – British health professionals have called for a change in the treatment of dementia patients after an official report warned that wrongly prescribed anti-psychotic medicines are causing the deaths of an estimated 1,800 each year. As many as 144,000 out of an estimated 180,000 people suffering from the disease ...

Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading

Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed. According to the report, when a company-funded study's primary finding wasn't favorable, that result was usually ...