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According to reports, GlaxoSmithKlines sales have dropped 2.4% and forecasters are predicting a more a fall in revenue of more than £100 million due to the increased safety concerns surrounding Avandia.
Posted: 2007-07-25
Category: K-12 Education
Ever wonder why people who take a placebo sometimes feel better even though they are not receiving any real medication? A group of researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor finished a new study that tested the nucleus accubens (NAC), a region deep in the brain that is known to play a role in reward expectation.
Posted: 2007-07-20
Category: K-12 Education
US researchers just announced that they will be conducting the first ever study to find a treatment for the addiction to such popular painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin.
Posted: 2007-07-15
Category: K-12 Education
Usually it is big pharma giving financial incentives to doctors to sway what type of medication they prescribe, but now big pharma has found itself in our shoes and doesn’t seem to like it to much.
Posted: 2007-07-07
Category: K-12 Education
A new study has revealed that the new Medicare Part D plan is making it exceedingly hard for beneficiaries to know exactly what medications are covered under the plan. This is due to the more than 1,800 different private health plans now participating in part D, and each having its own drug coverage charts.
Posted: 2007-06-21
Category: Ecommerce
Due to highly questionable sales tactics and reports of outright fraud, seven major health insurers have agreed to suspend marketing for a certain form of Medicare policy.
Posted: 2007-06-19
Category: Ecommerce
New research has spawned talk of a cure for hepatitis C, the blood born viral infection responsible for being the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver transplants in the United States.
Posted: 2007-05-21
Category: Ecommerce
People who suffer from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease will have a new option to treat their illness, a patch. The first patch to treat the illness was approved last week by the FDA.
Posted: 2007-05-15
Category: Ecommerce
Everyone knows that big pharma has always been allowed by the FDA to skip around the patent laws, keeping their brand name medication on the market longer and delaying price relief to the general public by keeping generic alternatives off the market.
Posted: 2007-05-03
Category: Ecommerce
A recent study by the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University has found that the risk of acquiring diabetes is much greater in people that suffer from depression.
Posted: 2007-04-24
Category: Ecommerce
A recent study done by Kristiann Heesch from the University of Queensland in Australia showed that the more often older women work out, the less likely they are to suffer from debilitating arthritis.
Posted: 2007-04-04
Category: Ecommerce
A new study warns that as overweight people with type-2 diabetes age, their risk for acquiring Parkinson’s disease increase. The new Finnish study also found obese diabetics to be at a significantly greater risk of acquiring a neurological disorder.
Posted: 2007-03-30
Category: Ecommerce
On Friday, the FDA called for heightened warnings on the blockbuster Anemia drugs Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit. The drugs have been found to increase the risk of severe health conditions that have to do with the kidneys and cancer, and could even result in death.
Posted: 2007-03-12
Category: Ecommerce
For the first time ever, the anti-impotence drug Viagra will be sold over-the-counter in the UK.
Posted: 2007-02-12
Category: Men's Issues
. Experts testified Wednesday before a panel that several hurdles in the system need to be removed in order to allow easier access to low income seniors.
Posted: 2007-02-01
Category: Health & Fitness
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