In the wake of Pfizer's announcement – that the company is retiring a series defective birth control pills – experts are weighing in on the decision, saying that women who experience, or will experience, unwanted pregnancies as a result of using these medications can and should sue the company.
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2 February 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific analysis conducted by investigators at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, it would appear that as many as 10 percent of all Canadians are unable to follow their doctors' prescriptions, as directed.
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17 January 2012
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Doctors say that they have recently started to notice a higher degree of medical compliance and improvement in patients who are treated for both Type II diabetes and depression in an integrated manner, as opposed to receiving the standard therapies for each of these conditions.
The new study suggests a new avenue o... |
16 January 2012
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Wildlife populations can revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry, providing appropriate remedies to several zoonotic diseases, intensively studied by scientists at this point in time. Animal self-medication could inspire new kinds of treatments, also contributing a great deal to environmental preservation. Experts... |
28 November 2011
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Finnish researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (UJ) say that mixing music therapy with all the standard approaches to treating depression – including drugs, counseling and psychotherapy – contributes to improving the final outcomes for most patients. For many years, numerous researchers have... |
4 August 2011
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GreatCall Inc. has announced its first iPhone application, MedCoach, a tool designed to make medication easier and less costly for the customer through improved management. The creators of the app recall a June 2010 report issued by The Healthcare Intelligence Network (2010 Benchmarks in Improving Medication Adheren... |
29 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that the number of medication mistakes usually being done by doctors in psychiatric hospitals can easily be reduced through the implementation of a computerized systems.
This electronic prescription drug ordering system could then be coupled with an aut... |
28 March 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers took a closer look at how psychotherapy affects the brain of people who suffer from anxiety disorders. The study was conducted because therapy and medication are the two main courses of treatment doctors prescribe to patients suffering from this condition. These two meth... |
15 February 2011
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A new study focusing on women in India, suggests that women with epilepsy are twice as likely as others to suffer from infertility.The researchers also discovered that women who were taking several epilepsy drugs, had higher infertility risks than those taking fewer or no drugs at all.Before drawing any conclusions, ... |
12 October 2010
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Google places its engineering prowess above all else and nowhere is this prowess clearer than in its search engine. Google engineers are very proud of their algorithms yet even they know that there are a few times when they can’t provide the best information. In these cases, the company opts to return results f... |
22 June 2010
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A new pathological research has demonstrated that herbal medicine can lead to unwanted deaths, especially in people who consume too much of their natural remedies, or who combine such substances with prescription medication. University of Adelaide forensic pathologist Professor Roger Byard underlines the fact that ma... |
10 February 2010
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Over the past years, doctors in Asia have begun to prescribe impressive amounts of medication, giving patients who enter their practices drugs for conditions that they do not suffer from. Some of the physicians think too far and prescribe pills for complications that might appear if the usual drugs do not work. In on... |
6 April 2009
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University of Arizona researchers managed to demonstrate for the first time that even insects have the ability to self-medicate, as in to consume various compounds found in plants or other places, in order to rid themselves of infections, parasites, bacteria or other “health issues.” The experiments, cond... |
14 March 2009
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We live in a world that keeps repeating to us that we should head to a psychologist whenever we’re in a situation that we feel gets the best of us emotionally, as well as take a bunch of pills every night before going to bed to fight depression and sleeplessness. Not so anymore – scientists believe that d... |
15 January 2009
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The ongoing Britney drama is taking an unexpected turn, and it seems that the battle is moving from the street to the court house. Since Britney has been committed to the psych ward at the UCLA Medical Center, there have been no more midnight visits to the shops, no more paparazzi chases and no more police standoffs.... |
6 February 2008
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