The US Food and Drug Administration have taken new charges to control the use and release of analgesics containing Propoxyphene. Drugs like Darvon and Darvocet contains this chemical as its center bond and its overdose can result to be fatal. The FDA is thus now on the prowl to control the release and use of Read more
On Wednesday, Food and Drug Administration; government medical advisors issued advices for flu vaccine to be administered in the next season. The flu reportedly kills more than 36,000 people in a year, and this vaccine administration is its preventive measure. The panel advised only a slight change in the current vaccine pattern for 2009-2010, which Read more
An extensive vitamin study conducted on the widest scale ever, showed that vitamins used by older women do not help to prevent cancer and heart disease at all. The study was published in Archives of Internal medicine. The study expanded over eight years and included 161,808 postmenopausal women. It also pointed to the disappointing vitamins Read more
Herbal medicines are one of the many different options you can consider in the situation when your conventional drug get failed to cure. This can be considered as the one of the best alternative of prescribed drugs if these are not helping to control symptoms. Recent studies have shown that use of herbal medicines and Read more
Clenbuterol is a drug of choice for the patients suffering from breathing disorders as a decongestant or bronchodilator. Patients of asthma use this steroid as a bronchodilator to make breathing comfortable. It is widely available in salt form as Clenbuterol hydrochloride for better stability. Clenbuterol has a similar chemical composition to ephedrine, but it is Read more
Steroids use to gain some superficial health benefits only for a short span of time is not a new thing from last five decades. But to buy steroids and use them in terms of health benefits is not an easy task. Especially, in the condition when it has imposed with charge in case of possession. Read more
The Olympic Games is the platform for the young athletes for all over the world. In historical background, the purpose was to advance the brotherhood through healthy and fair competition. But unfortunately, as the Olympics reach at the height of its popularity, participants started to use unfair means to win the gold medals which is Read more
Steroids use has been a controversial issue since their introduction in world of sports, almost five decades ago. The history of muscle construction of steroids is as old as the origin of Olympic Games. At this present time, you will come across some one who is using anabolic steroids or enhancement supplement while going to Read more
The U.S. FDA reaffirmed its stance that high level of LDL or “bad cholesterol,” is key risk factor for heart diseases such as heart attack, stroke etc, and reduction in LDL cholesterol lowers the risk of these diseases. The agency was reviewing of data from ENHANCE, a trial, which was comparing Zocor (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor), Read more
Drugs widely known as steroids can be categorized as anabolic steroids or corticosteroids. Anabolic steroids, such as cortisone or prednisone are drugs that physicians use to prescribe for the control of inflammation in the body. Corticosteroids are slightly different from anabolic steroids and now are linked with the illicit use in sports. Anabolic steroids also Read more
According to the researchers, different products, which are widely hyped for the body “detox”, don’t seem to do any good for the body. In this study (funded by the trust Sense About Science), the researchers reviewed 15 different detox products like face scrub and bottled water. The researchers found that many high claims about these Read more
With the decrease of marijuana and alcohol use, the abuse of painkillers such as Vicodin and Oxycontin has increased in teens, according to a new report. In U.S. improvement has been seen in many drug uses since late ’90s, but from last two years the down ward trend has stopped. “In this need of the Read more
Trasylol is a drug that is used to control bleeding in patients going through cardiac surgical procedure, but a new study is doubtful about the safety of that drug. In 2007, Trastoyl was removed from the market in the US, as it was the subject of controversy there. In their study, researchers from Australia and Read more
A review of existing data shows that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have no help with some well-known inhalers to improve their life spans. Contrarily, they may increase the risk of pneumonia (one of the biggest killers in the US) in these patients. However, without doctor’s recommendation, patients with COPD must not avoid Read more
It’s an often expressed idea about medicine that if you have high blood pressure, the steps you take to lower it will have a dramatic impact on your risk for heart disease, stroke and more. But a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says that almost 70 percent people with high blood pressure Read more