Pharmacology

Lamotrigine: Bipolar Drug Effectiveness Reduced During Pregnancy

In recent years, approximately 4.4 million women in the U.S. have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and women of childbearing age having the highest number of diagnoses.  A new study has found that physiological changes during pregnancy reduce the effe ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2013 - 11:23am

Iatrogenic Epidemic Future: More Access To Health Care Increases Opiod Abuse

Researchers in a new paper say that one way to gauge the extent of prescription opioid pain reliever abuse is to count the number of health care providers. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2013 - 10:01am

Trastuzumab And Anthracyclines Do Not Need To Be Given Concurrently For Breast Cancer Remission

Trastuzumab and anthracyclines given concurrently are effective at treating HER-2-positive breast cancer but there is worry that this could lead to increased risk of cardiac toxicity. New research shows these agents do not need to be given concurrently to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 8:30am

How Chemo Drug Cyclophosphamide Thwarts Graft Rejection In Bone Marrow Transplants

The chemotherapy drug called cyclophosphamide prevents graft-versus-host (GVHD) disease in people who receive bone marrow transplants. New experiments point to an immune system cell that evades the toxic effects of cyclophosphamide and protects patients f ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2013 - 7:07am

Opioid Medications Are Really, Really Overused

A comprehensive analysis of more than 1 million hospital admissions has found that over 50 percent of non-surgical patients were prescribed  opioid pain medications  during their hospitalizations, often at very high doses, and that more than half of those ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2013 - 8:30am

Moderate Coffee Consumption Linked To 25 Percent Reduction Of Type 2 Diabetes

Regular, moderate coffee consumption may decrease an individual's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research in a report published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee.  More than 370 million people worldwide have diab ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 11:37pm

Fact Or Myth: Some Herbs Help With Alzheimer's Disease

In the many well-funded marketing claims of homeopaths and 'alternative' medicine claims, including a US government program that spends $120 million a year legitimizing treatments that don't work, what can easily get lost is data about what ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2013 - 12:53pm

Coffee May Benefit Small Blood Vessels

The caffeine in a cup of coffee might help your small blood vessels work better, according to a paper presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013, which followed 27 healthy adults and showed that drinking a cup of caffeinat ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 3:13pm

SSRIs: Antidepressant Medication Does Not Increase The Risk Of Autism

Though more and more women are given antidepressant medication while they are pregnant and there have been more diagnosed cases of autism, there is no connection between the use of antidepressant medication- SSRIs- during the course of pregnancy and the r ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2013 - 12:07pm

Mail Order Pharmacy Works: Diabetics Who Use It Are Less Likely To Visit Emergency Room

Diabetics who received prescribed heart medications by mail were less likely to visit the emergency room than patients who picked up prescriptions in person, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the American Journal of Managed Care whic ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2013 - 7:00am