Archive for 'Prescription Drugs'
“Off-Label” Prescribing Responsible for Two Patient Deaths…
New Years Day is supposed to be a time of celebration. To celebrate what’s to come, to celebrate what has happened. Well on New Year’s Day 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that two patients suffering from lupus passed away from of a rare brain infection after medical doctors prescribed the Genentech [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2007 under Prescription Drugs.
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Preschoolers Face Greater Risk of Side Effects from the drug Ritalin…
According to a 70 week study, which is published in the November issue of the Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, preschoolers on the generic version of the drug Ritalin, also called methylphenidate, experienced side effects that include stunted growth, irritability, weight loss, insomnia, and other side effects. Out of 165 children, more than [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2006 under Prescription Drugs.
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Amazon.com Now Partnering With BIG PHARMA?
Recently, while doing some online research for new developments in alternative medicine, I came across an ad published on the homepage of Amazon.com that had me pretty irate to say the least. This ad was promoting Adderall, which is a prescription medication that supposedly treats a disorder called attention deficit hyperactivity. The more and more [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2006 under Prescription Drugs.
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New Study Shows That Cancer Drug Causes Heart Damage in 28 Percent of Patients…
A study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that the cancer drug Herceptin, sometimes called Trastuzumab causes heart damage in 28 percent of its users. Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center studied 173 patients with advanced breast cancer who had been taking the cancer drug for a [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2006 under Prescription Drugs.
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