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Health & Wellness News tagged with drug

Another Cancer Drug Too Dear for Britain: Bowel Cancer Victims Denied Life-Prolonging Care That's Free in Europe
Health & Wellness  (tags: Cancer victims, care, health, drug, Europe )

Sophie
- 9 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Bowel cancer sufferers are to be denied a life-prolonging drug on the NHS which is available to patients across Europe and beyond.
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Obama Gives Powerful Drug Lobby a Seat at Healthcare Table
Health & Wellness  (tags: drug, lobby, republican, Billy, Tauzin, medicare, healthcare, health, disease, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, risks, treatment, obama, government, politics, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, lies )

Tom
- 111 days ago - google.com
Barack Obama once lambasted drug companies and the influence they wield in Washington. The drug industry's chief lobbyist is former Republican Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin, who fought to prevent Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices.
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Drug Offers Hope on Alzheimer's - Britain
Health & Wellness  (tags: britain, uk, england, drug, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's, science, disease )

Chrissy
- 223 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A new drug which shows promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been developed by UK scientists. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the drug, CPHPC, removes a protein thought to play a key role in Alzheimer's from the
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Pharm Animals: A Drug From Goat's Milk Is Just the Start
Health & Wellness  (tags: genetically modified, animals, drug, healthcare )

Ingrid
- 289 days ago - blogs.wsj.com
The FDA just approved ATryn, the first drug made from a genetically modified animal. The drug is obtained from the milk of a GM goat, and it's used to treat a blood-clotting disorder called hereditary antithrombin deficiency.
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New Pill to Treat Multiple Sclerosis May Be Available Soon, Says Drugmaker Merck
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, drugs, medicine, prevention, science, treatment, ms, multiple sclerosis, health, research, drug )

Lynne
- 301 days ago - newsday.com
LONDON (AP) -- German drugmaker Merck Serono is one step closer to releasing the first pill to treat multiple sclerosis, the company said Friday.
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Obama, McCain Supporters Agree Government Responsible For Ensuring Basic Healthcare, Food, and Education Needs
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, government, food, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning, disease, Body-Mind-Spirit, abuse, environment, drug )

Club
- 406 days ago - healthinformer.net
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll shows broad consensus among Americans that the government is responsible for ensuring that its citizens can meet their basic healthcare, food, and educatio
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How to Make Meth | Stories | CrazynFunny.Com
Health & Wellness  (tags: meth, health, illness, drug, drugs )

Boris
- 424 days ago - crazynfunny.com
Methamphetamine is a type of stimulant that activates the central nervous system. Its effects are increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, and euphoria.
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Have Scientists Discovered a Cure for Alzheimer's?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Alzheimer disease, drug, therapy, dementia, humans )

Eduardo
- 490 days ago - independent.co.uk
A single 20mg pill of the drug, called Dimebon, taken three times a day, appears to be twice as effective in improving cognitive performance and preventing deterioration in memory as existing drugs.
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Fight for Kids: The Candace Downing Story
Health & Wellness  (tags: child death, abuse, prescription, zoloft, drug, psychiatry, quackery, protection, prevention, safety, warning, investigation, medicine, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Gregory
- 493 days ago - cchr.org
This little child died after being placed on Zoloft. Although this medication may be effective for some people the risks posed show be carefully discussed with the family and a big warning should be placed on the label.
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32,000 Vets To Be Warned About Suicide-Linked Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: verterans, drug, suicide, warning, behavior )

Eduardo
- 520 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Responding to an ABC News/Washington Times investigation, the Veterans Administration plans to inform 32,000 veterans that they are using a drug linked to suicide or violent behavior.
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Death RX   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: drug, companies, FDA, AIDS, insomnia, depression, drugs, overdose, bush, administration, vast, flames, interaction, Body-Mind-Spirit, investigation, healthcare )

Gregory
- 582 days ago - youtube.com
People are dying because of the collusion between pharmaceutical companies and the FDA. Doctors and institutions profit from their support of big pharma, and the FDA is being funded by the very corporations they are supposed to be policing.
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Fifty Percent of Women Stop Their Osteoporosis Treatment Within One Year
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, women, treatment, clinical, drug, fracture, osteoporosis, patients, therapy )

J.
- 623 days ago - springer-sbm.com
50% of women stop their osteoporosis treatment within one year.Those who don't comply with treatment instructions for osteoporosis or who do not respond to treatment are more likely to suffer further fractures,which seriously affects their quality of life
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ON THIS DAY - 1968: Damages for Thalidomide Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: thalidomide, babies, children, damages, settlement, drug, birth defects, 1968, on this day )

Chrissy
- 644 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Damages are to be awarded under a settlement agreed in the High Court to 62 children born with deformities, after their mothers took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy. The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd has agreed to pay each of the children 40
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Hope for Cancer Revolution - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, queensland, brisbane, cancer, health, drug )

Chrissy
- 667 days ago - news.com.au
A QUEENSLAND scientist is developing a drug that could revolutionise cancer treatment for millions of people world-wide. Derek Richard, from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, says he has found how to uniquely kill cancer cells with
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Firomyalgia -Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, pain, fibromyalgia, drug, society, medicine )

Mimi
- 677 days ago - nytimes.com
Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors.
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