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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

A national drug shortage, affecting everything from cancer therapies to antibiotics to pain medications, has Delaware health care providers scrambling to find alternatives, and in some cases patient care has been delayed or less effective drugs have been used. “It’s coming to a crisis point,” said Kimberly Couch, clinical pharmacist at Nanticoke Health Services in [...]

THURSDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) — When someone with type 2 diabetes needs a third medication to control blood sugar levels, the choice may come down to which drug has the least undesirable side effects, because the available medications all lower blood sugar in a similar manner. View full post on All Stories

A federal grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a woman accused in the death of her 10-year-old disabled stepdaughter on charges of trafficking prescription medications. View full post on All Stories

Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) are injected medications used to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis, and have been shown to reduce the frequency and severity of relapses. But according to a new Canadian study, adherence to all DMDs is low, with less than half of patients, or 44 per cent, continually adherent after two years. View [...]

Two Douglas County organizations will collect unneeded medications in Roseburg and Winston Saturday in an effort to prevent prescription drug abuse, especially among youth. Umpqua Partners for a drug-free future and the Winston Area Copyright 2011 The News-Review. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The News-Review Roseburg and [...]

The Drug Enforcement Administration says the most commonly abused drugs in America today come from the medicine cabinet. Over the last decade the number of people who’ve overdosed on prescription pain meds like Oxycotin has doubled. Matt Barden, Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA in Colorado Springs says there is no easy way to [...]