News tagged with prescribed drugs

Docs not immune to drug marketing: study

Pharmaceutical promotion may cause doctors to prescribe more expensively, less appropriately and more often, according to a new study co-authored by York University professor Joel Lexchin.

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 19, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Reduction in suicides after withdrawal of painkiller

(PhysOrg.com) -- Withdrawal of the painkiller co-proxamol from use in the UK has led to a major reduction in suicides and accidental poisonings involving the drug, research led by Oxford University has shown.

Medicine & Health / Medications

Jun 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 3