News tagged with combo pills
FDA won't accept Merck's application for new drug
(AP) -- U.S. regulators have refused to accept drugmaker Merck & Co.'s application for a new, combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer's Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Studies: Drug, device help treat heart failure
(AP) -- Millions of people with mild or moderate heart failure got good news Sunday, with studies showing a Pfizer drug and a device from Medtronic can boost survival and cut trips to the hospital by patients having trouble ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Picking right blood pressure medicine challenging
(AP) -- It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better personalize therapy - perhaps even using a blood test.
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Sep 06, 2010 |
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Cancer wins may be bigger than they seem
(AP) -- Doctors reported gains against nearly every form of cancer at a conference that ended this week. Yet when Will Thomas heard about an advance against prostate cancer, he wanted to know just one thing: "Is it a cure?"
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia
(AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Post-transplant combo can replace toxic immune-suppressing drugs in monkeys
Transplant patients rely on drugs to prevent graft rejection, but at the cost of serious side effects. The class of immunosuppressive drugs known as calcineurin inhibitors (examples are cyclosporine and tacrolimus) can damage ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Some antidepressants may risk breast cancer return
(AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
May 31, 2009 |
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Once-a-day heart combo pill shows promise in study
(AP) -- A single daily pill that combines aspirin and four blood pressure and cholesterol medicines has passed its first big test, potentially offering a cheap, simple way to prevent both heart disease and stroke.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2009 |
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FDA rejects Singulair-Claritin combination
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected a proposed pill that would combine the drugs Claritin and Singular, Schering-Plough said.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 30, 2008 |
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New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis
A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the highly contagious form of lung disease could dramatically ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 18, 2007 |
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