Patients who have deferred therapy in anticipation of newly approved drugs could put great demand on healthcare providers, forcing difficult decisions about whom to treat. Medscape Medical News
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Results of a study of nearly 36,000 Scottish children showed that more than one fifth of prescriptions written for paracetamol were off-label, most commonly prescribing too small or too large a dose. Medscape Medical News
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Latino men who have sex with men and who experience chronic discrimination develop a mistrust of the healthcare system and avoid seeking treatment for HIV. Medscape Medical News
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The implication, says one expert, is that physicians can’t be complacent with a normal blood pressure in African Americans measured inside the office. The cardiovascular risk factors associated with masked hypertension are equal to that of individuals with sustained hypertension. Heartwire
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA has approved fidaxomicin (Dificid) to treat diarrhea associated with Clostridium difficile infections — the first new drug approved for the disease in 30 years.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Enacting a two-year moratorium on advertising new prescription drugs directly to consumers likely would have little effect on sales and costs of drugs, and could be bad for public health, a government report concludes.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Senate Finance Committee has released a report detailing payments made by drugmaker Sanofi to two medical societies — ones that wrote letters to the FDA supporting the company’s campaign to delay approval of generic forms of enoxaparin (Lovenox), which is marketed by Sanofi.
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(MedPage Today) — Graphic health warnings on cigarettes packs caused one-quarter of smokers to consider quitting in 13 of the 14 foreign countries surveyed for a report published by the CDC.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Enacting a two-year moratorium on advertising new prescription drugs directly to consumers likely would have little effect on sales and costs of drugs, and could be bad for public health, a government report concludes.
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The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today disclosed results from an interim analysis of the AIM-HIGH clinical trial.
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