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Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter San Diego, CA, United States (AHN) – Antibiotics don’t help fight most sinus infections. but most doctors routinely prescribe them for that purpose, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say that antibiotics [...]

IRIN Staff Kampala, Uganda (IRIN) – Uganda’s National Drug Authority recently arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm’s owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police. The drug, known as Virol ZAPPER, was being sold in 37-milliliter liquid doses, each [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Oakland, CA, United States (AHN) – Drugs used to treat attention deficit disorder, including Ritalin and Adderall, are safe for adults’ hearts even though they can increase blood pressure and heart rate, a new study finds. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA., found in a review of health [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter San Antonio, TX, United States (AHN) – Women with advanced breast cancer may soon have two new treatment options, according to two separate studies. In a large international study, two new combination treatments appears to improve survival, although the researchers note that more follow-up needs to be done. For [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – Over the past decade, the medicating of Americans for mental illness has continued to grow. From 2001 to 2010, overall use of psychiatric drug use among adults rose 22 percent. One on five adults now takes at least one psychotic drug such as [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – The number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone were responsible for the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008, more than [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination drug to treat both diabetes and high cholesterol. Sold under the brand name Juvisync, the drug is a fixed-dose combination tablet that combines the diabetes drug sitagliptin with simvastatin. In a [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Recent warnings over misuse and overuse of antibiotics appears to be paying off. A new report released Thursday from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention shows that since 1993-1994, the number of prescriptions written and filled for children under 14 years of [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Trivia Writer Amsterdam, Netherlands (AHN) – Many women and doctors both swear by cranberry juice and capsules to treat reoccurring bladder infections, but a new Dutch study reveals that antibiotics may be more effective even if they contribute to a greater risk for antibiotic resistance. About half of all women [...]

Mogadishu, Somalia (IRIN) – Hospitals in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have been hit by a shortage of drugs following the arrival of large numbers of drought-displaced people in the past two months, with health officials reporting that up to five patients were dying daily due to disease outbreaks. “Hospitals are experiencing shortages of medicines yet [...]