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Colo. voters soundly defeat anti-abortion measure
DENVER - Colorado voters have defeated a ballot measure that would have defined life as beginning at conception.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-05
Improving the Use of Drugs Through Genes
Getting a personal gene analysis right now may not tell you much that's useful to your health. But that doesn't mean the technology can't improve medical care and save lives. One of the most promising uses for information is fine-tuning how drugs are prescribed. That's because some genetic variations that turn up in gene testing affect how people respond to pharmaceutical products. My liver enzymes might be speed demons when it comes to clearing drugs from my blood, while yours work far more slowly. So I'll need a higher dose of the drug to get the same medical effect. To take an extreme case, one-third of people with a particular gene die when given a certain AIDS drug. Yet in patients without the genetic variation, the drug works great. So doctors must test for the gene before prescribing the drug.
Nations:U.S. Source:(BusinessWeek)
2008-10-27
AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds
WASHINGTON - People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Nations:U.S. Canada Source:(AP)
2008-10-26
Survey: Half of US doctors use placebo treatments
LONDON - About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments -- usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition. And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found.
Nations:Denmark Sweden Source:(AP)
2008-10-24
Drugmakers post lower third-quarter net income
TRENTON, N.J. - Drugmakers Merck & Co., Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline PLC all posted lower profits for the third quarter on Wednesday, partly due to the intensifying generic competition weighing on the entire pharmaceutical industry.
Nations:Italy Japan Source:(AP)
2008-10-22
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- Colo. voters soundly defeat anti-abortion measure 2008-11-05
- Improving the Use of Drugs Through Genes 2008-10-27
- AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds 2008-10-26
- Survey: Half of US doctors use placebo treatments 2008-10-24
- Drugmakers post lower third-quarter net income 2008-10-22
- Va. pharmacy follows faith, no birth control sales 2008-10-22
- Safety a problem for new generation drugs, too 2008-10-21
- Pfizer, Schering-Plough beat modest expectations 2008-10-21
- Magnet device aims to treat depression patients 2008-10-21
- $894 million deal ends pain of Pfizer's lawsuits 2008-10-17
- Johnson & Johnson 3Q profit rises, tops views 2008-10-14
- Therapy helps hard-to-transplant get a new kidney 2008-10-13
- Cold meds not for kids under 4: makers 2008-10-07
- Eli Lilly agrees to buy ImClone for over $6B 2008-10-06
- Pope reaffirms Church opposition to contraception 2008-10-03
- Mailmen might deliver meds in next anthrax attack 2008-10-02
- FDA urged to recall cold medicines for youngsters 2008-10-02
- Heart patients should be screened for depression 2008-09-30
- US kids three times likelier to be medicated than in Europe: study 2008-09-24
- Painkiller May Prevent Diabetes-Related Retinal Damage 2008-09-24
- Viagra helps depressed women: study 2008-07-21
- Roche seen likely to raise bid for Genentech 2008-07-21
- Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects 2008-07-03
- Contraceptive pill available online in Britain 2008-06-23
- FDA sued for failure to act on risky painkiller 2008-06-19
- Raloxifene Cuts Risk of Certain Type of Breast Cancer 2008-06-11
- Longer drug therapy helps babies ward off AIDS 2008-06-05
- Court limits Merck monitoring in Vioxx case 2008-06-05
- NJ, Texas courts scrap awards from Vioxx cases 2008-05-29
- Gut superbug causing more illnesses, deaths 2008-05-28
- New safety program to monitor Medicare drug use 2008-05-23
- Merck agrees to $58M settlement over Vioxx ad claims 2008-05-20
- FDA stresses birth defect risks with Roche drug 2008-05-20
- TV drug ads may have to zoom in on side effects 2008-05-15
- More Americans are taking prescription medications 2008-05-14
- Study: Older brains don't benefit from painkillers 2008-05-13
- Eli Lilly to help train doctors on drug-resistant TB 2008-05-13
- Merck to cut 1,200 sales jobs following regulatory setback 2008-05-05
- Night club drug could ease depression: scientists 2008-05-04
- Common drugs hasten decline in elderly: study 2008-05-03
- Pfizer reaches deal with some Celebrex users: report 2008-05-02
- Merck extends deadline for Vioxx settlement 2008-05-01
- Study shows Prozac may slow MS 2008-05-01
- Is estrogen testosterone for women? 2008-05-01
- Cholesterol-drug rejection rips new gash in Merck 2008-04-29
- Idaho lab develops a quicker way to catch a thief 2008-04-29
- FDA turns down application for combo allergy drug 2008-04-26
- Prozac might cure "lazy eye," scientists say 2008-04-17
- Pfizer 1Q profit falls on buyout charges, patent losses 2008-04-17
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