Sandoz Canada has recalled its health product glimepiride, which is used to treat diabetes, over the mislabeling of boxes. The mislabeling has occurred on outer carton of the product, which shows as containing 1mg tablets, while the ...
Tags: Glimepiride Medicines, Medicines
A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is ...
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THURSDAY Jan. 23, 2014, 2014 -- Race and gender affect whether heart attack patients still take recommended medications a year later, a new study finds. And black and Hispanic women are least likely to continue using the drugs meant to ...
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If you can't get relief from your asthma, the way you communicate with your allergist might be part of the problem, according to two new studies. The researchers said asthma patients need to ask questions and have open communication with ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends health professionals discontinue prescribing combination drug products containing acetaminophen. The FDA recommends healthcare professionals discontinue ...
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Stateline examines the difficulty for many working families to buy insurance while KHN spends time at a California hospital to survey how some without insurance try to afford care. Other news coverage on health law outreach and enrollment ...
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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Merck is voluntarily recalling all lots of Liptruzet, or ezetimibe and atorvastatin, in the United States due to packaging defects, officials say. The drug company is recalling from wholesalers ...
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Have you ever left a doctor's office feeling ashamed or guilty? Chances are one in two that you answered "yes," according to research from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make ...
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, is voluntarily recalling all lots of Liptruzet (ezetimibe and atorvastatin) 10/10 mg, 10/20 mg, 10/40 mg and 10/80 mg tablets in the United States, including Puerto Rico, ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors to stop prescribing painkillers that contain more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen because of reports of severe liver damage. Prescription painkillers, which include Vicodin and ...
Candesartan is just as effective as more the commonly prescribed propranolol when it comes to preventing migraine attacks, according to a new study from St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and ...
Tags: High-Blood Pressure, Prevent Migraines, High-Blood Pressure Medicine
A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study released today shows there is no evidence that the risk of suicide differs with two commonly prescribed antidepressants prescribed to children and adolescents. The population-based study, ...
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Electromed, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ELMD), a global medical device company, today announced it has received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that its next generation SmartVest® Airway Clearance System, the model ...
Technology is being deployed throughout the agricultural sector at an exponentially-increasing pace. Applications of precision agricultural techniques and devices abound when it comes to crop production. Billy Cook, senior vice president ...
Horse owners, in the everyday care of their animals, routinely need to administer medications in one form or another. The most common range from liniments and leg braces, to diverse anthelmintics for controlling internal parasites, to ...
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