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(HealthDay News) — Medications prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may effectively manage symptoms, but they can also cause a number of side effects.
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these suggestions to minimize side effects caused by ADHD drugs:
Take only the minimal dose necessary to control your symptoms. Speak with your doctor about [...]
WASHINGTON – You’ve heard of making cheese from goats’ milk, but prescription drugs? In what would be a scientific first, an anti-clotting drug made from the milk of genetically engineered goats moved closer to government approval Wednesday after experts at the Food and Drug Administration reported that the medication works and its safety is acceptable.
Called [...]
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Anti-psychotic drugs commonly used to treat Alzheimer’s disease may double a patient’s chance of dying within a few years, suggests a new study that adds to concerns already known about such medications.
“For the vast majority of Alzheimer’s patients, taking these drugs is probably not a worthwhile risk,” said Clive Ballard, the paper’s lead author, of [...]
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It has been known for a while that injections of a class of anti-osteoporosis drugs might trigger jaw bone decay after certain dental procedures, and now it seems that pill forms of the so-called bisphosphonate medications could have the same side effect.
Specifically, a study conducted at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry in [...]
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Measuring nitric oxide levels in an asthmatic child’s breath every day does not improve the effectiveness of adjusting the child’s medications, a new study shows.
Nitric oxide (NO) amounts in an asthmatic’s breath can foretell the worsening of symptoms or even an attack. But a 30-week Dutch study of children with the [...]
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Alzheimer’s patients who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs face a higher risk of death than similar patients not given these medications do, British researchers report.
While the short-term use of antipsychotics has been found to benefit Alzheimer’s patients, studies have found that prolonged use can have serious side effects, including Parkinson-like symptoms, sedation, [...]
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Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs don’t interfere with rituximab, a medication used to treat lymphomas, say Mayo Clinic researchers, who also found that statins may actually slow progression of some kinds of lymphomas.
Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody often used alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat lymphomas — cancers of the lymph system. A study published [...]
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FRIDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) — Allowing patients to control their own pain medication intravenously is four times more likely to cause the patient harm than other medications, a new study says.
The report, published in the December issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, shows that most mistakes involving intravenous patient-controlled [...]
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Drug violence, including decapitations and grenade attacks, has killed some 4,500 people in Mexico this year but thousands of others are falling victim to a quieter crisis: addiction to methamphetamine.
Mexico is now the largest producer of methamphetamine for the U.S. market and traffickers have recently found a growing number of users at home, many of [...]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows.
Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in [...]
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