The Canadian Globe and Mail reported Monday on a new study from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Laval University, according to the Globe the study, “… confounded infectious-disease experts in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu.”
The study is “under review ” and researchers [...]

Research published this week in the open access journal, PLoS Medicine, suggests that there is an association between thiazolidinediones – a type of drug introduced in the 1990s to treat type 2 diabetes – and bone fracture.
Ian Douglas of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues searched the UK General Practice Research [...]

Patients gettin double the natural radiation exposure.
Like so many medical prodeedures and drugs, the true risks are not known, bcause of a lack of reliable testing. The latest example is questions being raised about radiation levels from medical imaging, a widespread prceedure.
Pulished in New England Journal of Medicine, the study included nearly one million adults [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it is reviewing adverse event reports of liver injury in patients taking the weight loss drug orlistat, marketed as the prescription drug Xenical and the over-the-counter medication Alli.
Between 1999 and 2008, the FDA received 32 reports of serious liver injury in patients taking orlistat. Of those [...]

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Health care reform ‘myths’ and truths laid out
BY James Gordon Meek and Thomas M. Defrank
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON [...]

A report by Hearst newspapers based upon their research finds that there are at least about 200,000 death in America each year from preventable medical errors. The report finds that this number is probable a very low estimate. he numbers make death by medical mistake the leading cause of accidental death in the [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking several actions to reduce the risk of overdose in patients using pain medications such as Darvon and Darvocet that contain propoxyphene. The actions were taken because of data linking propoxyphene and fatal overdoses.
The agency is requiring manufacturers of propoxyphene-containing products to strengthen the label, including the boxed [...]

FDA notified healthcare professionals of clinical trial data that suggest increased mortality in stable liver transplant patients after conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based immunosuppressive regimen to sirolimus (Rapamune). The trial was conducted by sirolimus manufacturer, Wyeth. The Agency will continue to examine the data on mortality and other adverse events in this study, and [...]

The FDA is warning consumers to not use any Clarcon products. Consumers should not use any Clarcon products and should throw these products away in household refuse. Analyses of several samples of over-the-counter topical antimicrobial skin sanitizer and skin protectant products revealed high levels of various bacteria, including some associated with unsanitary conditions. Some of [...]

A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic [...]