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Aranya Tomseth 2.0
Okay, so I maintained my “Better Living Through Chemistry” blog for several months for the purposes of a graduate school class, but I’m not going to rant and rave about the pros and cons of pharmaceutical drugs anymore. I think I made my point, and well, frankly, I’m bored of that topic. Besides, I’m done ...
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New Labels For Epilepsy Drugs
The FDA is preparing to put warning labels on epilepsy drugs that will notify users about the increased risk for suicidal behavior. “Everything points in the direction of an increase in what we call suicidality,” said Dr. Russell Katz, director of the FDA’s neuropharmacological drug division in a Katz said in a June 6 Wall ...
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NFL Dealer Found Dead
According to ESPN.com, a convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him was found dead in his home in Plano, Texas on June 5. Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. ...
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Busted For Oxycodone
Another athlete has fallen victim to prescription drug addiction. Starting New England Patriots offensive lineman Nicholas Kaczur was arrested in April on a charge of illegal possession of prescription painkillers. Following his arrest, Kaczur secretly cooperated with the DEA in a sting operation that resulted in the indictment of his alleged drug supplier. According to ...
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Death In The Mail
The problem with ordering prescription drugs from online pharmacies, is that you have no idea what you’re getting. Just ask the woman from this recent CNN Health article. “Every night before her husband went to bed, he would open a prescription bottle of the muscle relaxant Soma and swallow the eight or nine pills it ...
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Recent New Drug Applications
Here are the most recent drug applications submitted to the FDA for approval. I always find it interesting to see what’s coming our way. Sancuso (granisetron) Transdermal Patch Company: ProStrakan Group; Treatment for: Nausea/Vomiting – Chemotherapy Induced. Sancuso (granisetron) is an anti-emetic transdermal delivery system in development for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting ...
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Cloretazine Shows Promise
Vion Pharmaceuticals announced the interim data results of its pivotal phase II trial of cloretazine, an anticancer agent drug that is intended to treat elderly patients with de novo poor-risk acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) today. 35 percent of the 85 patients evaluated in the study responded to the drug treatment, and 90 percent of those ...
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A Little Scary…
On May 27, the FDA alerted consumers and healthcare professionals not to buy or use Xiadafil VIP Tablets sold in bottles of 8 tablets or blister cards of 2 tablets. The product is marketed as a dietary supplement and is promoted and sold over the internet for sexual enhancement and to treat erectile dysfunction. “The ...
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Blogging About Alzheimers
Patients diagnosed with early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are speaking out and demanding more attention, according to an article in today’s New York Times. Some patients—like 52-year-old Kris Bakowski of Athens, Georgia—are even blogging about their personal experience. Bakowski’s blog Creating Memories documents her daily struggles and successes with the disease. There are several drugs ...
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Bill Maher Talks Drugs
Bill Maher Bill Maher – one of my very favorite comedians—pokes fun at our over-dependency on prescription drugs in his stand-up routine The Decider. I like how Maher says we “come up with the pill before the disease.” Sometimes it certainly seems that way!
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Cancer Drug Extends Life
I don’t want people to get the idea that I am opposed to prescription drugs and medicine. I firmly believe that there are drugs out there that have done wonders for the human raceand I think it’s amazing that there are people out there creating these wonder-meds… so I figure I should be sure to ...
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Drugstore Cowboys
Drugstore cowboy video I was just thinking about the movie Drugstore Cowboy the other day. It’s one of my favorites, and I think it was a little ahead of its time. It was made in 1989, and while pharmacy robberies have been going on since the first pharmacy opened its doors, they probably weren’t ...