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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1417 health Medications/Drugs News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:48:45 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1417 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091107/hl_hsn/healthtipfollowdirectionswhentakingmedication hsn/20091107/healthtipfollowdirectionswhentakingmedication HealthDay health Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:48:45 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- A number of adverse effects can result if you don't take a medication as directed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091107/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov62009 hsn/20091107/clinicaltrialsupdatenov62009 HealthDay health Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:48:40 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091107/hl_hsn/paylessforprescriptiondrugs hsn/20091107/paylessforprescriptiondrugs HealthDay health Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:48:26 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The recession has made it more difficult than ever before for many Americans to afford prescription medications, but several options are available, according to an expert from Butler University in Indianapolis. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091106/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov52009 hsn/20091106/clinicaltrialsupdatenov52009 HealthDay health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:56 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/euhealthdrugsaddiction afp/20091105/euhealthdrugsaddiction AFP health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/euhealthdrugsaddiction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257425229182-1-0.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=4Y.pFv66U039s9ufAZJekg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="A police officer opens a bag of cocaine that was seized in 2008. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday.(AFP/File/Elmer Martinez)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/euhealthdrugsaddiction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257425229182-1-0.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=4Y.pFv66U039s9ufAZJekg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="A police officer opens a bag of cocaine that was seized in 2008. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday.(AFP/File/Elmer Martinez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091105/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov42009 hsn/20091105/clinicaltrialsupdatenov42009 HealthDay health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:48:42 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091105/hl_hsn/fdainitiativeseekstoreduceaccidentaloverdoses hsn/20091105/fdainitiativeseekstoreduceaccidentaloverdoses HealthDay health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:48:35 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health authorities unveiled Wednesday an initiative designed to reduce preventable injuries and deaths caused by misuse of medications. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/hl_nm/us_drugs_fda nm/20091104/us_drugs_fda Reuters health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:16 GMT Reuters - U.S. health officials unveiled plans to fight avoidable injuries from medication errors or misuse, a problem that harms hundreds of thousands of people each year and can be deadly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/hl_nm/us_prescription_opiates nm/20091104/us_prescription_opiates Reuters health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:13:31 GMT Reuters - A new study of overdose deaths in Washington State due to prescription opiate drugs shows that most of these deaths involved methadone, and that these overdoses were much more common among people on Medicaid. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091104/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov32009 hsn/20091104/clinicaltrialsupdatenov32009 HealthDay health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:49:16 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/hl_afp/healthfluuswomenchildrenvaccine afp/20091103/healthfluuswomenchildrenvaccine AFP health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/hl_afp/healthfluuswomenchildrenvaccine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257262213662-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=h4BJn0mAQPGE5UMl5JPaEg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="A nurse gives a shot of the H1N1 vaccine to Mandi Russell, who is seven and a half months pregnant, at the Utah County Health Department in October 2009 in Provo, Utah. A single dose of swine flu vaccine produces a robust immune response in pregnant women, one of the groups at higher risk of dying from (A)H1N1 influenza, initial results from US clinical trials have shown.(AFP/Getty Images/File/George Frey)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A single dose of swine flu vaccine produces a robust immune response in pregnant women, one of the groups at high risk of dying from (A)H1N1 influenza, but young children need two shots, US clinical trials have shown.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/hl_afp/healthfluuswomenchildrenvaccine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257262213662-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=h4BJn0mAQPGE5UMl5JPaEg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="A nurse gives a shot of the H1N1 vaccine to Mandi Russell, who is seven and a half months pregnant, at the Utah County Health Department in October 2009 in Provo, Utah. A single dose of swine flu vaccine produces a robust immune response in pregnant women, one of the groups at higher risk of dying from (A)H1N1 influenza, initial results from US clinical trials have shown.(AFP/Getty Images/File/George Frey)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091103/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdatenov22009 hsn/20091103/clinicaltrialsupdatenov22009 HealthDay health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:49:19 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091103/hl_hsn/onedoseofswinefluvaccineworksforpregnantwomen hsn/20091103/onedoseofswinefluvaccineworksforpregnantwomen HealthDay health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:49:08 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Results from ongoing clinical trials confirm that pregnant women need only one dose of the swine flu vaccine, while young children -- 6 months to 9 years of age -- need two doses, U.S. health officials said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/hl_nm/us_human_genome nm/20091102/us_human_genome Reuters health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:31 GMT Reuters - Human Genome Sciences Inc said its experimental lupus drug Benlysta eased symptoms in more than 43 percent of patients who took it in a clinical trial, paving the way for approval of the first new treatment for the disease in 50 years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091030/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdateoct292009 hsn/20091030/clinicaltrialsupdateoct292009 HealthDay health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:49:46 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_treatment ap/20091029/us_med_swine_flu_treatment AP health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:11:56 GMT AP - A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves &mdash; cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091029/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdateoct282009 hsn/20091029/clinicaltrialsupdateoct282009 HealthDay health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:49:05 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091028/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdateoct272009 hsn/20091028/clinicaltrialsupdateoct272009 HealthDay health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:49:41 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091027/hl_hsn/clinicaltrialsupdateoct262009 hsn/20091027/clinicaltrialsupdateoct262009 HealthDay health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:50:09 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091027/hl_hsn/boweldiseasetreatmentmayraiseskincancerrisk hsn/20091027/boweldiseasetreatmentmayraiseskincancerrisk HealthDay health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:50:07 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients who are being treated with immunosuppressive medications may be at increased risk for non-melanoma skin cancer, a new U.S. study says.