For depressed public with bipolar disorder who are taking a mood stabilizer, adding an antidepressant medication is no increasingly effective than a placebo (sugar pill), according to results published online on March 28, 2007 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The results are part of the large-scale,...

Contrary to widespread belief, total surgical replacement of arthritic shoulder joints carries no greater risk of complications than replacement of other major joints, a Johns Hopkins study suggests. [click link for full article] Original post by Patricia Mayville-Cox

Emerging from a record field of 28 finalists representing many major multinational companies, a team of scientists and engineers from the U.S. division of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) won the 2007 Ergo Cup. DOE JGI’s “Shake ‘N...

Health Canada is warning consumers not to use the unauthorized natural health product XOX For Men, considering it contains an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient, tadalafil, an ingredient found in the prescription drug Cialis. The use of XOX For Men could pose serious health risks, particularly for...

The New York Times on Friday examined an Eli Lilly program that offers state Medicaid programs assistance in monitoring physicians’ prescribing practices for Zyprexa, a treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that is the singled-out largest drug cost in state Medicaid budgets. [click link...

MESOMARK™ is a laboratory analysis that is used as an adjunctive tryout to degree the amount of strange protein fragments (called soluble mesothelin related peptides) in a patient?s blood sample to determine whether a rare cancer of the internal body lining… (Approved: 1/24/2007) Original post...

Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, highlighted their expanded new offerings in Men’s Healthcare during a press conference held at the 22nd Annual assembly of the European organization of Urology (EAU) on March 22, 2007. The event focused on study results from their three products: Levitra®, Testogel®...

Sudden cardiac death occurs in approximately 600 children per year in the United States. The most common cause is an inherited disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Medications used to treat ADHD should not be prescribed for children and adolescents with structural heart defects. A thorough health...

final month, the long-awaited results of the TORCH study of Advair (aka Seretide external the U.S.)(TM) for patients with moderate to severe COPD were published, but were no doubt disappointing to patients with COPD and investors who own GSK stock. Optimists spun the results as “positive”...

A UK scientist is experimenting with a new gene therapy using HIV that could eventually right faulty genes in cystic fibrosis babies before they are born.A genetic scientist based at University College, London, Suzanne Buckley, has successfully used HIV as a genetical fabric carrier or “vector”...

Although the intent of the FDA‘s Black Box Warnings is to educate doctors, patients, and parents approximately the potential side effects of medications, I’m concerned that when combined with sensationalized and distorted media reporting, they frequently create unnecessary fear and the decision...