If you have been taking Abbott’s weight loss pill Meridia, you should know that the drug has been found to cause severe heart attack and stroke. Meridia contains Sibutramine, which is recommended for the management of obesity, including weight loss and maintenance of weight loss. The product profile says that it can cause a large increase in blood pressure or heart rate (pulse) in some people....

Anti wrinkle products have a huge market and great acceptability among consumers as no one wants a wrinkled skin. Be careful when you buy an anti-wrinkle cream, lotions or get a treatment done in spa for your wrinkles. Allergen, a maker of the popular wrinkle smoother Botox, agreed to pay $600 million and plead guilty of illegal marketing of Botox between 2000 and 2005 for uses for which it had not...

Flu season generally starts in November, peaks in January, February, and March, and winds down in May. This year health officials are planning ahead of time to provide flu shots to people as last year’s flu season was troublesome for all people when swine flu pandemic affected millions of people and vaccine shortages led to frustration. Health officials are expecting that flu might hit early this...

Depression is a medical illness that involves the mind and the body. Approximately 1 in 18 people or 14.4 million people in USA suffer from depression. There are several prescription drugs available in the market for the treatment of depression, such as Zoloft and Prozac.

Resistant bacterial strains like MSRA have been a health concern for professionals. In order to treat such resistant infections, scientists are working on development of next generation antibiotics. Most of us know about penicillin, an antibiotic which was a breakthrough antibiotic when discovered. After many years of use, it was found to be resistant for many bacterial strains. And then next generation...

Social media like Facebook and Twitter are the favorite places for most of the people and companies to share the information. Over two billion pieces of content are shared each week through Facebook.  Taking advantage of this huge platform, some pharmaceutical companies are promoting their drugs that misguide and mislead the patients, as per the FDA.  The FDA Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is grilling clinical studies that say Avandia increases risk of heart attack and the ones funded by GlaxoSmithKline say Avandia is safe.  Few days ago, an extensive report on reviewer of clinical studies by GSK revealed that the study had some basic flaws. 

How do you feed medicine to your children?  I remember while growing up, my parents used teaspoon as a common tool to give medicine.  Even today, my brother and sister use the similar teaspoons to feed medicine to their children.  A latest study reported that parents should avoid using teaspoons as you cannot control the amount of medicine that you are giving to your child.

J&J dealing with multiple recalls of Tylenol, Benadryl and, here is another company in news for recalling its product. Bristol-Myers Squibb, a global Biopharma company has initiated nationwide voluntarily recall of eight production lots of anti-clotting drug, Coumadin. The recall is a preventive

Statins are cholesterol lowering drugs, which are beneficial for people who are suffering from heart disease.  Statins have been in controversy recently, whether Statins should be prescribed to healthy people.  Well, recent news from Pfizer Inc comes with more surprise for me that Pfizer developed a chewable version of Lipitor for children over age 10 and got approval from European Commision.