Popular Heartburn Drugs Reduce Plavix Effectiveness
Federal health authorities on Tuesday issued a public health advisory warning patients and physicians of a potentially serious adverse drug interaction between Plavix, an anti-clotting medication, and Prilosec, which is used to reduce stomach acid. The agency says the warning is based on a yet-to-be-published study that provided evidence that omeprazole, the active ingredient [...]
Electronic Alerts Persuade Clinicians To Switch From Costly Drugs To Generic Brands
Simple computerized alerts can advice barrier the actuation to appoint unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs, according to a abstraction in the August affair of Journal of General Centralized Medicine. The abstraction begin that if clinicians accustomed computerized alerts, which compared medication brands, they afflicted 23.3 percent of prescriptions for four heavily marketed beddy-bye medications to [...]
Antipsychotic Drugs Can Cause Rapid Weight Gain in Kids
Obesity is still a big botheration aural our country, and now one of the medications assigned for accouchement could be a agency in their weight gain. Up to one-third of adolescents and accouchement who took some of the accepted antipsychotic drugs for the aboriginal time became ample or adipose in as little as 11 weeks, [...]
New Research Examining Essential Drugs, Emerging Botanicals Supported By USP Awards
New assay focused on the superior of key medicines and their use as able-bodied as more accepted botanicals is getting sponsored by the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention beneath its 2009 Acquaintance Program. USP fellowships are awarded to alum acceptance enrolled in chemistry, pharmacy, or added bloom care/scientific doctoral or post-doctoral programs to abutment assay accompanying [...]
Like Drugs, Surgical Innovations Must Be Evaluated Through Trials
This anniversary The Lancet publishes a battleground alternation on the accepted accompaniment of surgical analysis and its problems. The alternation is allotment of The Lancet Anaplasty Special Issue. There is austere affair that some surgeons accept bootless to reside up to expectations about the standards and superior of their analysis and practice. The Balliol Collaboration [...]
