Recent Posts Tagged With 'drug'

• Is Sugar the New Cocaine?

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 07:38 in energy, food, abuse, Emotions, drug, sugar, obesity, pleasure, cocaine, reward, drug addiction, self control

  Refined sugars have only relatively recently appeared in the diets of most people. Regulatory pathways that balance calorie intake and energy expenditure and reward pathways help the body regulate ingestion of these sweeteners, as well as other foods...

• Are Generic Drugs Really Equivalent to Brand Name Drugs?

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 09:46 in drug, patent, safety, fda, generic, ingredient, brand name, clinical practice, substitution, bioequivalence, drugs & clinical trials, clinical efficacy

  Countless drugs are manufactured as generic equivalents to brand name counterparts. Generic drugs must be bioequivalent to the brand name drug, meaning that they contain the same active ingredient at the same dose, in the same dosage form, with the s...

• Recent Drug Warnings About Suicide

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 08:24 in depression, drug, myth, suicide, fda, antidepressants, warning, epilepsy, seizures, chantix, bmj, suicide risk

  During the holiday season, I was reminded of the old myth that suicide rates increase over the holidays. This medical myth has been debunked numerous times and it was one of the topics covered in a recent BMJ story about medical myths. For many years...

• New Option for the Management of Acute Pain

  Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 08:27 in Treatment, surgery, risk, Management, drug, brain, fda, pain, dea, serotonin, morphine, opioid

  Acute pain affects more than 25 million Americans each year, and is one of the primary reasons that people seek medical care. Acute pain may result from injury, trauma, surgery, or medical procedures, and can have significant emotional, cognitive, an...

• The Need for Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs

  Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 08:13 in United States, Marketing, europe, drug, safety, patient, reporting, fda, u.s., side effects, Surveillance, oversight

  When a new drug is approved and enters the marketplace, often the only safety and efficacy information available is based on a few thousand people who took the drug during strictly controlled clinical trials. Not surprisingly, these trials are design...

• Alcohol 101 - the Best Class on Campus

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 08:27 in education, United States, College, student, drug, alcohol, drinking, stress, age, consumption, attitudes, social norms

  Alcohol use by underage college students has increasingly grown as a large issue across the United States. Excessive, or binge drinking among college students is associated with a variety of negative consequences, such as a decrease in academic produ...

• How Much is a Pound of Prevention Worth?

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 08:57 in medicine, Heart, risk, cholesterol, drug, death, study, statins, trial, prevention, placebo, jupiter

  The cholesterol-lowering drugs collectively known as “statins” are among the top drugs sold in the United States, and worldwide. Although current guidelines only recommend the use of statins for people with elevated cholesterol, there is new evid...

• New Drug Approval - Lacosamide for Epilepsy

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 15:08 in United States, european, drug, therapy, study, solution, control, epilepsy, approval, dose, reaction, seizure

  In October, the Federal Drug Administration approved lacosamide as add-on therapy for adults with partial seizures. The approval is based on data from multiple phase 1, 2, and 3 clinical trials involving approximately 1300 people. The study participa...

• Learning from Mistakes in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 06:18 in art, science, Treatment, surgery, Failure, drug, history, patient, diagnosis, epilepsy, selection, seizure

  The adage of those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it rings as true in medicine as in any other field. Learning from previous patients and past experiences — even mistakes — is the best learning tool in medicine. The ...

• Antipsychotics May Decrease the Risk of Suicide

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 21:03 in depression, anxiety, Treatment, risk, psychiatry, drug, journal, antidepressant, suicide, study, disorder, risperidone

  Suicide is an all-too familiar consequence of depression. Up to 15% of patients with untreated or undertreated depression commit suicide. The goal of treatment for depressive disorders is to alleviate the symptoms of depression, which may include an ...

• New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease?

  Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 15:42 in Treatment, drug, research, brain, medication, protein, tau, clinical trial, drugs & clinical trials, rember, taurx, novel therapy

  In July 2008, results from several clinical trials of novel Alzheimer’s Disease treatments were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago. Among these results was an 84-week ...