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2 hrs ago | This is South Wales

New strain of swine flu resistant to jab spreads in hospital

A STRAIN of swine flu resistant to Tamiflu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic), Medicine, Influenza

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Pharmaceutical Processing

Pfizer Receives FDA Approval For Geodon Capsules For The Adjunctive...

Pfizer has announced that the FDA has approved GeodonA Capsules for maintenance treatment of bipolar I disorder as an adjunct to lithium or valproate in adults.

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Related Topix: Geodon, Ziprasidone (generic), Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Lithium (generic), Eskalith, Lithobid, Bipolar Disorder

Reuters

Texas court tosses state Vioxx suit against Merck

A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the state against drugmaker Merck & Co that sought a refund for money spent on the withdrawn Vioxx pain treatment, the company said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Vioxx, Rofecoxib (generic), Health, Pain, Healthcare Law, Law, Travis County, TX

WHNT-TV Huntsville

Jury awards $75M in punitive damages to Illinois woman in Prempro cancer case

A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Prempro, Estrogen/Progestin (generic), Health, Breast Cancer, Peoria, IL, Peoria Metro

MediLexicon

Adamas Pharmaceuticals Expands Clinical Study For Triple-Combination...

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company, announced that it has expanded its Phase 2 clinical study of a proprietary investigational triple-combination antiviral drug therapy for influenza to include centers in the United States, Canada and Europe.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Influenza, Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Amantadine (generic), Symmetrel, Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic)

PAXALLES

Research: Morphine May Spread Cancer

Morphine "might spread cancer" from BBC News reports that morphine can form new blood vessels to feed tumors and help them grow.

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Related Topix: Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, University of Chicago

MediLexicon

Epiphany Announces Positive Results From Its Phase 2b Trial In Shingles

Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Epiphany Biosciences announced results from its Phase 2b dose-ranging study of EPB-348 in patients with shingles infection.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Shingles, Health, Healthcare Law, Law, Valtrex, Valacyclovir (generic), Pain, Chickenpox

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Bioscience Technology

Early Communication about an Ongoing Safety Review of Meridia

Early Communication about an Ongoing Safety Review ofA A Meridia This information reflects FDA's current analysis of available data concerning this drug.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Meridia, Sibutramine (generic), Healthcare Law, Law

Physics Blog

Parent training complements medication for treating behavioral problems in children with PDD

Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Risperdal, Risperidone (generic)

National Post

H1N1 virus risks becoming antiviral resistant: experts

More than one million antiviral doses have been drawn from the federal stockpile in recent months, and the number of prescriptions filled by Canadian retail drugstores for Tamiflu and Relenza, the ... As public health officials urge more rapid use of antivirals for H1N1, some experts worry the drugs could become over-prescribed for what is a ...

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic), Medicine, Relenza, Zanamivir (generic), Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Influenza

KHQ-TV Spokane

Jury awards $300 million in ex-smoker's suit

Philip Morris has been ordered to pay $300 million in damages to a former smoker in Florida.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Richmond, VA, Richmond Metro

Newswise

FISH Technology Preferred for Choosing HER-2-Positive Breast Cancer Treatments

The debate on how to select patients who will respond best to costly drug treatments for aggressive breast cancer now favors fluorescence in situ hybridization to measure the HER-2 receptor found in human breast tumors, according to a leading pathologist presenting at the Association for Molecular Pathology annual meeting.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Pathology, University of Southern California, Herceptin, Trastuzumab (generic), Oncology

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Drug Store News

NADDI cracks down on methamphetamine with new initiative

LOUISVILLE,A Ky. The National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators on Friday announced a new initiative in the war on methamphetamine; the National Precursor Log Exchange , a multistate electronic tracking program that enforces purchase limitations of the decongestant pseudoephedrine in real-time at the point of sale.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Semprex-D, Acrivastine, Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride (generic)

R & D

Venezuela aims to annul patents for antibiotic

Venezuela's trade minister says the government plans to annul the pharmaceutical patents for an antibiotic produced by Bayer HealthCare.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Biotech, Bayer AG, Chemicals, Medicine, Avelox, Moxifloxacin (generic)

FOX30Online

Feds bust Palm Beach County drug ring

At least 20 people were indicted on drug selling charges in an operation that reportedly ran from January 2006 to Oct.

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Related Topix: Palm Beach County, FL, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medicine

Palm Beach Post

'Big Brother' winner seeks bail in Mass. drug case

Adam Jasinski was charged last month with attempting to sell 2,000 pills of oxycodone, which is the main active ingredient in OxyContin and other painkillers and can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Cherry Hill, NJ

PhysOrg Weblog

Mutation found in swine flu virus: WHO

However, it stressed that the mutation did not appear to cause a more contagious or more dangerous form of A influenza and that some similar cases observed elsewhere had been mild.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic), Relenza, Zanamivir (generic)

China Daily

Pain drug morphine may accelerate cancer growth

Evidence is mounting that morphine, commonly used to manage pain, may accelerate cancer growth, but a newly-approved drug that blocks its side effects could also keep tumors from spreading, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, Health, Pain, Biotech, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Constipation, Lung Cancer

Fri Nov 20, 2009

BBC

Drug resistant swine flu hits UK

Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic), Medicine, Influenza

ClipSyndicate

Study: Folic acid can give you cancer?

A new study is causing major concern about the use of folic acid and B12 supplements.

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Related Topix: Folvite, Folic Acid (generic), Medicine, Video, Health

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