Medication News

Using a nicotine patch before quitting smoking can double success rates, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.

Elevated insulin levels in the blood appear to raise the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Health Canada is investigating the diabetes drug Lantus after research suggested there may be an increased risk of developing various types of cancer among those taking the medication.

A Bradenton father whose 16-year-old son suffers from a heart condition was arrested this week for reportedly giving the teenager morphine without a prescription.

The side-effects of a popular asthma medication that has been sold in Canada for 12 years has been linked to suicide attempts and thoughts of suicide, as well as feelings of depression and hostility.

Doctors don't have to be so cautious in prescribing the drug finasteride to men at risk for prostate cancer, a new study suggests.

An antibiotic pill originally developed to help prevent rejection in organ transplant patients helps mice live longer and might offer a route to fighting age-related disease in people, U.S. researchers reported Monday.

Amid reports of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases, health officials are concerned about how quickly a new strain of the virus resistant to the drug Tamiflu will spread, or how dangerous it might become.

A Monash University study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery which could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.

The anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin could hold promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, says a Saint Louis University doctor and researcher.

Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill." Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than... Roughly a fourth of American women getting ...

A Colorado nurse charged with using a terminally ill patient's name to get pain pills is now accused of doing the same with other patients.

A San Francisco teenager has been diagnosed with a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the common antiviral drug Tamiflu - an important milestone in the pandemic's evolution.

PLANNED MOVE: folic acid being added to all bread - except organic varieties - in an effort to reduce serious neural tube defects in babies.

Over 900 boxes of a coffee laced with sildenafil, or what is more widely known as Viagra, have been seized in Malaysia.

WHO: Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 not spreading A boy looks at a woman holding out a box of Tamiflu as she talks with journalists outside a school in Lisbon July 7, 2009.

The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.

In answering two certified questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Ohio State Supreme Court on July 1 declared that a state law regulating the use of mifepristone -- which is used in medication abortion -- bars physicians from prescribing it for off-label use, BNA reports.

Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 07 Jul 2009 - 4:00 PDT A new 12 month hormone therapy treatment is launched for men with advanced prostate cancer.

Results of a small study suggest that the drug pregabalin can reduce stabbing facial pain and other symptoms stemming from a condition called trigeminal neuralgia.