• Early drug therapy curbs HIV transmission: study

    • People with HIV who take antiretroviral drugs before their health declines have a 96 percent lower risk of transmitting the virus to a partner, according to a b...
      Time: 2011-05-13 Class: Health Tag: theThedrugonMStudyTransmissionstudy

    ADHD Drug Shortage Has Patients, Parents Scrambling

    • WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Due to an ongoing shortage, some American adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or the parents of c...
      Time: 2011-05-13 Class: Health Tag: ParentsParentparentspatientsdrugparentMHas

    J&J recalls 57,000 bottles of epilepsy drug

    • Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it is recalling about 57,000 bottles of its Topamax epilepsy drug after reports of a foul odor, the latest in a strin...
      Time: 2011-04-15 Class: Health Tag: recalldrugcalls

    The Pros and Cons of a Drug Court

    • In 1989, the first drug court was established in Miami-Dade County in an effort to reduce the number of cases on the court docket and to create a problem-solvin...
      Time: 2011-04-09 Class: Legal Tag: thecourtandThedrugon

    Synthetic drug, subject of proposed bans, kill teen

    • Amid efforts by authorities to stop the use of illegal synthetic drugs, revelers at a spring break party in a Minneapolis suburb overdosed this week on the risk...
      Time: 2011-03-20 Class: Health Tag: TeentheThedrug

    Veteran federal judge visits drug gang is NYC turf

    • NEW YORK – The scene in a gritty Brooklyn neighborhood had the feel of a political campaign stop, except the stately man trailed by aides, a bodyguard...
      Time: 2011-03-05 Class: News Tag: drugfederal

    FDA wants more data on Pfizer-Protalix drug

    • Health regulators have asked for additional data to support Pfizer Inc and Protalix Biotherapeutics Inc's new drug application for taliglucerase alfa, a treatme...
      Time: 2011-02-25 Class: Health Tag: FDAdrugonMmore

    Expectations can cancel out benefit of pain drugs

    • People who don't believe their pain medicine will work can actually reduce or even cancel out the effectiveness of the drug, and images of their brains show how...
      Time: 2011-02-17 Class: Health Tag: PainpainCanEldrugonOutexpectations

    No birth defect risk seen with malaria drug

    • Pregnant women who take the anti-malarial drug Malarone during their first trimester might not be increasing their baby's risk of birth defects, a new study su...
      Time: 2011-02-17 Class: Health Tag: seenWithRiskdrugMbirth