Suicidal behaviour caused by antidepressants 'cannot be ruled out'
... The second study reviewed 477 trials submitted by drug companies to the safety review of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions. The research team found no evidence that SSRIs increas...Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's in nursing homes are worsening sufferers' illness
Quetiapine, a drug commonly used in nursing homes to treat agitation...e patients given the commonly used antipsychotic drug quetiapine showed a marked worsening in the condition with marked deterioration of memory and other ...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...ord Hospital has launched a safety study using the drug Viagra to determine if it can help patients recove...g. Viagra, or sildenafil, is a commonly prescribed drug for erectile dysfunction. "We realized that we need to look at what we can do to help people who hav...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
A little-known drug called naltrexone provides a "meaningful benefit" ...s, along with the recent FDA approval of a similar drug called acamprosate, open the door to new treatment options for drinkers who aren't yet ready to face...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...or interstitial cystitis (IC) to learn if the oral drug amitriptyline (Elavil) will reduce the pain and fr...syndromes. Prior small studies in IC suggested the drug may be a wise choice for this syndrome as well, because it blocks nerve signals that trigger pain an...Impact of scientific advances on drug studies and membrane research to be explored
How to apply scientific advances to drug research, particularly on the structure and functi...hanging role of medicine in society, the future of drug discovery, and research on the membrane proteins and lipids that form the drug-targeted boundary bet...HIV patients may be at risk of heart problems when taking protease inhibitor drugs
...e patients. The second is to be alert for multiple drug therapy situations, because certain drug-drug comb... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's voluntary drug side-effect database, the Adverse Event Reporting System. They identified 24 cases of heart rhythm d...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...the conflicting interests of women, physicians and drug companies played a role in the popularity of HT (a...their patients and well as information provided by drug manufacturers. In addition, they make their decisions based on years of clinical experience with HT,...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
... in youth and examining the impact of school-based drug prevention programs in rural communities. The goal is to identify preventive strategies with a track record of improving the educational success and mental health of children and encourage wider use of these programs....Most episodes of HIV 'blips' not clinically significant in patients receiving HAART
...as "blips." These blips may raise concerns about drug resistance, lead to costly repeat testing, and som...esses, vaccination, or decreases in antiretroviral drug concentrations. Blips were marginally associated with self-reported nonadherence." The researcher...Researchers confirm Vioxx nearly doubled cardiovascular risks in cancer prevention study
...pective trial ever examining the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx as a chemoprevention agent found that the ri...oprevention trial and subsequent withdrawal of the drug from the U.S. market. The trial, known as APPROVe (Adenomatous Polyp Prevention on Vioxx), was the l...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...ive patients in the United States currently taking drug therapy, called highly active anti-retroviral ther...hat the virus has mutated, or changed form. True drug resistance requires changes in therapy which can be very difficult for the patient, says Siliciano. ...Breast cancer treatment reduces risk of heart disease
... with breast cancer treated with the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen are at significantly less risk of having a heart attack or symptoms of heart stress such as angina, according to a new study. The study, published in the March 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), ...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...rinker's risk factors, family history, alcohol and drug use, alcohol-related problems, symptoms of dependence, and motivation for change; objective feedback based on their answers; and a module that helps them resolve their ambivalence about whether to change their drinking." Hester said the DCU program ...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
... in their practices to teach them about a specific drug or advances in treatment-similar to the way drug company representatives 'detail' physicians-is known to be a very effective way to improve the quali...UCLA study: Nearly a third of drug ads in medical journals contain no references for medical claims
... . "Previous studies have shown that physicians' drug prescribing is influenced by pharmaceutical ads. W...eference -- which annually provides information on drug usage, warnings and drug interactions; government documents; or an internet site. Reviewers were a...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
BOSTON--Using rational drug design strategies, investigators at Dana-Farber Ca...he study. "The goal of this study was to develop a drug that hits the same target on CML cells as Gleevec does, and to hit more of the target." Gleevec shut......nal. "Previous studies have shown that physicians' drug prescribing is influenced by pharmaceutical ads. W...eference -- which annually provides information on drug usage, warnings and drug interactions; government documents; or an internet site. Reviewers were ab...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...vine researchers have identified several promising drug compounds that when combined show the potential to...Marsh and Leslie Thompson found that combinatorial drug therapies developed from these compounds halted the brain-cell damage caused by the fatal, progressi......cacy equal to or higher than that of the reference drug for treating leishmaniases, glucantime. Experiments run on mice confirmed that oral administration of these quinolines was effective and that toxicity was low for this animal. The adoption of this administration route would simplify treatment of pati...