Health News
Diabetes Care: A Patient-Centered Approach
Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease. As such, treating the disease also has become complex. Now, new treatment guidelines are reflecting the need to personalize treatment for individual patients.
Nanotechnology and Medicine
Like so much of technology, the hype and fear around nanoparticles says they will either revolutionize the world we live in or embody the newest high tech scourge. The truth is somewhere in the middle, but both sides have valid points.
FDA Strengthens Post-Marketed Drug Research
A strengthened and modernized post-market drug safety program has resulted in a substantial improvement in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of drugs once they reach the American public.
FDA: Blood Pressure Medication Warning
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning of possible risks when using blood pressure medicines containing aliskiren with other drugs called angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors ( ACEIs ) and angiotensin receptor blockers ( ARBs ) in patients with diabetes or kidney (renal) impairment.
Antibiotics for Farm Animals - Not
The FDA released a report urging limited use of medically important antibiotics in farm animals. Exposure to the excessive antibiotics in food may add to resistance for people.
FDA Issues Second Warning to Physicians about Certain Compounded Drugs
FDA has received additional reports of fungal endophthalmitis (eye infections) in patients who were given Brilliant Blue G ( BBG ) during eye surgery since the FDA Warning to Physicians was posted on March 19, 2012.
FDA Issues Second Warning to Physicians about Certain Compounded Drugs
FDA has received additional reports of fungal endophthalmitis (eye infections) in patients who were given Brilliant Blue G ( BBG ) during eye surgery since the FDA Warning to Physicians was posted on March 19, 2012.
Grandma's Pillbox Isn't Kids' Candy
If you're heading over the river and through to the woods to grandmother's house, make sure grandma has put her medications far out of reach from the little ones.
Risk of Blood Clots Associated With Birth Control
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of recent observational ( epidemiologic ) studies regarding the risk of blood clots in women taking drospirenone-containing birth control pills.
Looking for ways to Minimize Radiation
If you're obese and scheduled for a CT scan, here's something you may not know: you're possibly receiving more radiation from the scan than those of a healthy weight would receive.