October 25, 2015 CDC warns overuse of antibiotics has fueled more infections Overuse of antibiotics made Americans more vulnerable to a strain of bacteria that caused nearly half a million infections and contributed to at least 29,000 deaths in a single year, U.S. public health officials warned in a study published on Wednesday.
October 25, 2015 Novartis to test Alzheimer's drugs in patients without symptoms Novartis said it would test two experimental Alzheimer's drugs on people with a genetic risk of developing dementia, aiming to gauge whether the treatments can prevent or delay symptoms of the memory-robbing disease.
October 25, 2015 Common meds containing caffeine may be linked to stroke Taking medications containing caffeine was tied to a doubled or even tripled risk of having a stroke in a new Korean study that might seem to contradict recent evidence suggesting coffee and tea exert protective effects.
October 25, 2015 Severe egg allergy? There's now a flu shot for you People with serious egg allergies may no longer have to worry about flu shots.
October 25, 2015 Transatlantic divide: how US pays three times more for drugs U.S. prices for the world's 20 top-selling medicines are, on average, three times higher than in Britain, according to an analysis carried out for Reuters.
October 25, 2015 Brain inflammation linked to clinical depression, study finds Brain inflammation may be a marker for clinical depression, suggests a small study by Canadian researchers.
October 25, 2015 Many doctors in UK give useless drugs, treatments More than three-quarters of British doctors prescribe a treatment they know probably won't work at least once a week, like low-dose drugs, vitamins, nutritional supplements or an unnecessary exam, according to a new survey
October 25, 2015 Amsterdam warns tourists white heroin being sold as cocaine Authorities in Amsterdam warned Friday that potentially lethal white heroin is being sold as cocaine in the city after three Danish tourists became ill this week.
October 25, 2015 WHO recommends naloxone to prevent 20,000 overdose deaths in U.S. More than 20,000 deaths might be prevented every year in the United States alone if naloxone, used to counter drug overdoses, was more widely available, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
October 25, 2015 FDA approves Actavis, Valeant drugs for irritable bowel syndrome U.S. health regulators approved new irritable bowel syndrome drugs from Actavis Plc and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc on Wednesday, validating big investments both companies made to acquire the products.
