Posted by: drugsinus on: January 17, 2010
By I-Ching Ng NEW YORK () – Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey’s Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas. Many of the 12,000-plus summer camps in the United States are ramping up their [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: November 24, 2009
A study of heart-attack patients published in the late 1980s was wildly successful. Researchers showed they could lower the heart-attack death rate to 8% from 13% by giving patients aspirin and a drug called streptokinase. These days, though, an 8% mortality rate would be disastrous; the rate in most studies of heart attack patients is [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: October 2, 2009
A year ago, eight companies, including several fierce rivals, announced plans for an unusual $100 million study to address a huge question plaguing the market for artery-opening devices called coronary stents: How long do patients need to take blood-thinning drugs to prevent rare but life-threatening blood clots from re-clogging the devices. Now, the companies are [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
Muscle rubs may not offer any relief from aches and pains There is no convincing evidence that liniments and balms work on sore muscles and joints, say experts. There are unlimited over-the-counter purchases and more than a million prescriptions a year for rubefacient rubs, giving a blood rush to the skin. Cochrane researchers who looked [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
Advice about aspirin use has been conflicting Low-dose aspirin should not routinely be used to prevent heart attacks and strokes, contrary to official guidance, say UK researchers. Analysis of date from over 100,000 clinical trial participants found the risk of harm largely cancelled out the benefits of taking the drug. Only those who have already [...]
