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Prescription Painkillers Could Be New 'Gateway' Drugs (HealthDay)

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:48:36 GMT

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription medicines are the way that many drug addicts first get hooked, making these legal medicines the new "gateway" drugs, new study findings show.

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 24, 2010 (HealthDay)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:48:33 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Prescription Drug Use Rising in U.S., CDC Reports (HealthDay)

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:48:23 GMT

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription drug in the past month increased from 44 percent to 48 percent, says a federal government study released Thursday.

Adding talk therapy to meds may ease adult ADHD (Reuters)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:34 GMT

Reuters - Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who still have symptoms despite taking medications might benefit from "talk therapy," also known as cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, according to a study released Tuesday.

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 30, 2010 (HealthDay)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:48:15 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 25, 2010 (HealthDay)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:48:37 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 27, 2010 (HealthDay)

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:48:44 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 31, 2010 (HealthDay)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:48:31 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Some Fake ADHD to Get Meds, Special Treatment (HealthDay)

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:48:42 GMT

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- While attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a real and pervasive condition, new research suggests there is a cluster of kids and adults who successfully fake the condition either to get drugs or gain special privileges in school.

African police seize 10 metric tons of fake meds (Reuters)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:58:07 GMT

Reuters - Police seized about 10 metric tons of counterfeit medicines and arrested 80 people in a sweep across eastern Africa, international police agency Interpol said on Thursday.

In Some Patients, Hypertension Meds Raise Blood Pressure (HealthDay)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:48:31 GMT

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Popular prescription medications taken to control hypertension may actually boost blood pressure in a "statistically significant" percentage of patients, researchers report.

Cognitive Therapy Helps Adults With ADHD (HealthDay)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:48:26 GMT

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Adding therapy to the medications an adult might be taking for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could lessen symptoms and improve quality of life, new research suggests.

Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 1, 2010 (HealthDay)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:48:27 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 2, 2010 (HealthDay)

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:48:25 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Does Hope Have a Dark Side? (HealthDay)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:48:57 GMT

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine suffering from a chronic illness that challenges you every single day. You have aches and pains, difficulty getting around and sometimes suffer from surprising decreases in energy. You take fistfuls of medication for relief and endure countless medical procedures to keep the illness from progressing.

Some donated malaria drugs being stolen in Africa (AP)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:44:45 GMT

AP - Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated medication is being stolen and resold on commercial markets.

U.S. medical programs missing millions of kids: report (Reuters)

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:01:50 GMT

Reuters - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report.

FDA gets tougher with certain drug trials (Reuters)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:02:21 GMT

Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on use of certain clinical trials that show a new drug is no worse than another already on the market, according to a government report released on Friday.

Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 26, 2010 (HealthDay)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:48:52 GMT

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

Child health at risk from non-prescription drugs: study (AFP)

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:04:32 GMT

AFP - Many parents give their children too large or frequent doses of non-prescription medicines for fever, coughs and colds, putting their health at risk, according to an Australian study released Monday.