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 U.S. researchers stated on Tuesday that the widely used Ginkgo Biloba doesn’t help at all in treating or preventing Alzheimer's disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment. The researchers tracked 3,069 people age 75 or older from five U.S. locations. The study lasted for six years and half of the people...
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 Two important studies published today showed that the supplements taken by millions of Americans as vitamins don’t reduce the risk for many important diseases. The vitamins that people think it could help them fight the diseases don’t reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer.In one of the studies, 14,641 male physicians...
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 A new study that can change the treatment for cardiovascular disease showed that statin drugs can really lower the risk of heart attacks and even strokes in patients who apparently feel well. The researchers tracked 18,000 people who had normal cholesterol and found out that the drugs also helped for lowering the risk of heart diseases...
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 Tarceva, a new drug released by OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its partners from Melville, may do miracles for the ones who have lung cancer. The doctors announced on Friday that Tarceva could really help in slowing down the process of lung cancer if it’s given after chemotherapy is over.A month ago another study on the same issue showed...
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 The government tries to fight against anthrax with more and more drugs. So the fight went tighter as many pharmaceutical companies try to get the best product. Two biotechs, Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and PharmAthene of Annapolis, became rivals in the fight against anthrax. They both announced that the government has released new...
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 A German study made on patients who had strokes showed that many of them had been treated with an anemia drug released by Johnson & Johnson, as federal health official reported on Friday. The FDA now seeks answers for the higher death rates among those patients. The Food and Drug Administration said that 16% of the patients who were...
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 Researchers and doctors have released a new experimental vaccine for breast cancer tumors, but they have also discovered another vaccine that they hope it will be much more effective since it can deliver a cancer-fighting gene into cells.The gene produces immune system proteins but also tumor-destroying cells. Wei-Zen Wei, the doctor...
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 Pfizer Inc. will appear on Monday presenting its Fablyn osteoporosis drug on the market. Still, medical experts and the Food and Drug Administration will have to approve the drug by submitting it to various tests. This will be the third attempt of the drug to go out on the market and its approval stands to be very important for the...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has made a plan to release a list of drugs which are under a safety investigation. Every three months the FDA will post the list on which there will be drug companies, physicians and patients that brought drug and medication complaints to the agency. The FDA won’t describe how serious the complaint lists...
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 California law was violated by dispensers that use medical marijuana for-profit. This has been discovered after guidelines of the hospitals were checked by the police, who now want to join a federal crackdown against the dispensers. Jerry Brown, the State Attorney General, said on Monday that the formal cooperatives which are registered...
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 Mass Murder in Memphis Home, 6 Killed
The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...
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