According to a new warning released from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, mercury that is used in dental fillings poses a major health risk.
Mercury is commonly used in amalgam dental fillings and poses the greatest health risk to children, as well as pregnant mothers and their fetus.
The FDA, following pressure from many health groups, [...]
Women who take the drug Fosamax for osteoporosis may be at an increased risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a US study suggests.
Researchers have linked the drug - widely prescribed in the UK to stop bone-thinning in older women - to a condition known as atrial fibrillation.
This is not necessarily serious, but can in [...]
Information An online advertisement with men praising Viagra to the tune of an Elvis Presley song has drawn objections from U.S. regulators, who said drugmaker Pfizer Inc failed to list the impotence drug’s risks.
Pfizer said the omission of side effects warnings was due to a technical error on CNN’s Web site, www.cnn.com, which ran the [...]
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The latest saga in the endless quest to find a magic bullet for weight loss was released Tuesday.
“It is the Holy Grail of pharmacology,” said Marc Shelton, an Illinois cardiologist who moderated a session at which the new research was presented.
The study involved the diet drug rimonabant, which is available in [...]
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Researchers for Merck/Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, who were conducting a clinical trial of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin, wanted him to look at ultrasound images of the carotid arteries of a few people in the trial, which had just finished enrolling patients.
Stein, an expert on the use of carotid ultrasound to detect heart [...]
Tests on mice show that diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavouring, can cause a condition known as lymphocytic bronchiolitis, said the team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The condition can lead to obliterative bronchiolitis — or popcorn lung — a rare and debilitating disease seen [...]
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In the past couple years, more than 100,000 patients in the U.S. alone have been implanted with newer devices that reduce medical visits by sending information on a patient to a bedside monitor that then sends the data to a doctor, usually once a day.
In the model researchers studied, transmissions from the [...]
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Now, doctors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are about to carry that theory to the ickiest extreme.
They soon will begin serving up liquid concoctions of microscopic worm eggs to people with multiple sclerosis in the hope that the parasites will tone down the immune systems of the patients and relieve their symptoms.
The [...]
No one knew what was wrong with her. At age 25 she seemed too young to be having a stroke.
As Jim Cody, 69, lay in his hospital bed recovering from knee replacement surgery, a tiny fat particle traveled to his brain. Soon he was unable to move or talk.
What Cody and Weiler didn’t know [...]
If ever there were a piece of the Great Lakes you could call ruined, this is it - a shoreline poisoned for decades by raw sewage and manufacturing excrements such as cyanide, ammonia, oil and lead.
The wanton dumping from the mills, refineries and sewer pipes has been largely stanched, yet it remains a place forested [...]
