UC San Francisco and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) have opened a unique Walgreens store today on the UCSF campus that aims to improve medication safety, decrease health care costs and help patients use medicines more effectively by ...
By Kirsty Oswald, medwireNews Reporter Results from a German national health survey indicate that asthma patients with multiple comorbidities are at increased risk for unplanned hospital admissions. The findings also confirm that ...
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Morphine appears to reduce the effectiveness of the commonly used blood-thinning drug Plavix, which could hamper emergency-room efforts to treat heart attack victims, Austrian researchers report. The finding could create serious dilemmas ...
Fewer people should take medicine to control their high blood pressure, a new set of guidelines recommends. Adults aged 60 or older should only take blood pressure medication if their blood pressure exceeds 150/90, which sets a higher bar ...
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Canadian regulatory authority Health Canada has approved Valeant Pharmaceuticals International subsidiary Valeant Canada's new drug submission of Jublia for the treatment of onychomycosis. Jublia is designated for the treatment of mild to ...
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U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would help consumers distinguish between dietary supplements that are safe and those that have potentially serious side-effects or drug ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved labeling changes to Bristol-Myers Squibb's Reyataz (atazanavir), an antiretroviral medication. The label will now include warnings about kidney and gall stones in addition to updated ...
Absorption Systems has launched new assay for the human breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) transporter. The new assay will enable drug developers to test new drug candidates for interactions with BCRP, which is involved in drug ...
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A study by US-based researchers, published in the journal PLoS, found that these warning labels often carry information about drug interactions or dosage information. The study found that consumers, particularly older ones, often overlook ...
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The FDA has granted fast track designation for Achillion Pharmaceuticals' ACH-3102 as part of an interferon-free regimen for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV). ACH-3102 is a pan-genotypic second-generation NS5A inhibitor ...
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