Tryptophan deficiency may underlie quinine side effects
Public release date: 26-Jun-2009 Researchers have found that the anti-malarial drug quinine can block a cell’s ability to take up the essential amino acid tryptophan, a discovery that may…
Adverse reactions to antibiotics send thousands of patients to the ER / 142,000 emergency department visits per year U.S.
Public release date: 12-Aug-2008 Adverse events from antibiotics cause an estimated 142,000 emergency department visits per year in the United States, according to a study published in the September…
Should doctors be ‘selling’ drugs for the pharmaceutical industry?
Public release date: 19-Jun-2008 Feature: Key opinion leaders -- independent experts or drug representatives in disguise? Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or…
Celecoxib can adversely affect heart rhythm
Public release date: 14-Jan-2008 COX-2 inhibitors like Celecoxib have come under scrutiny lately due to adverse cardiovascular side-effects stemming from COX-2 reduction. In both fruit fly and rat models, researchers…
1/3 of community pharmacists don’t tell parents they are dispensing off-label drugs to children
Public release date: 11-Jul-2007 Forty per cent of community pharmacists have dispensed an off-label drug to a child in the last month, according to research published in the July issue…
Drugs Slip Past FDA, Sell Unapproved by the Millions
Ballay Pharmaceuticals Inc. had a choice nine years ago: seek U.S. approval to sell a prescription decongestant or slip the drug on the market and hope regulators wouldn't order…
Drug company funding of drug trials greatly influences outcome
In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried…
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