25 percent of acne patients fail to get prescribed medications
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that treating post-tonsillectomy pain with morphine can cause some children to develop life-threatening respiratory problems. The study also showed that ibuprofen is a… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The number of new medicines for rare diseases approved by EU drug regulators hit a record high in 2014. Of the 82 medicines given the… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is to step up international cooperation on regulating generics. The regulator says it is ready to share assessment reports for… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: An electronic repository for periodic safety update reports (PSURs) and their assessment reports has been launched by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
by Gary Finnegan: Seven new medicines have approved at the January meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) – the European Medicines Agency’s influential… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: In the non-cardiac surgical setting, neither aspirin nor clonidine taken perioperatively appears to reduce the risk of acute kidney injury, researchers reported on Nov. 15,… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended 10 new medicines for approval, taking the total approvals for 2014 to 75 with one additional meeting still… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency finds itself, not for the first time, entering a new year surrounded by uncertainty over the future of its leadership.
With research and development costs for many drugs reaching well into the billions, pharmaceutical companies want more than ever to determine whether their drugs already at market have… read more.
Substance abuse assessments needed before drugs are prescribed, researchers say. Teens prescribed anti-anxiety or sleep medications may be up to 12 times more likely to abuse those drugs… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Microvascular complications of diabetes that can lead to blindness and amputations might be reduced by statin therapy, researchers reported on Sept.9, 2014 in The Lancet… read more.
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