Some side-effects of NSAIDs, such as an increased risk of stomach bleeding have been known for a long time.
What that means is not only is the regulatory environment more favorable and more likely to approve these products even if they have some side-effects, but also the payer environment is more willing to pay for these drugs.
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For the regime, the anti-graft drive has had some useful side-effects.
Novartis may be wise to seek a measure of stability in an industry beset with ups and downs, but it could experience some unwelcome side-effects.
And like some drug complications, ecological side-effects may take years to appear.
They are thought to be fairly safe, although some experts have raised concerns about side-effects.
However, some of these can have unpleasant side-effects which cause people to stop taking their medication.
Epileptics report a range of side-effects, some of them severe, when they are switched from a branded to a generic anti-epileptic drug (AED) or switched from one generic to another.
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The drug does cause side-effects in some patients, including, rarely, cancer of the lining of the womb, but the scientists said that the increased chance of preventing breast cancer returning far outweighed the risk.
Some off-patent drugs have so few side effects that they are now available without a prescription.
According to the FDA, 300, 000 people are injured in some way because of drug side effects each year--a flaw the agency blames partly on confusing medical information.
Patients receiving the vaccine did not need to be hospitalised, and the only side effects they suffered were some flu-like symptoms and several days of redness and itching where the injection was given.
Some of the more common side effects of weight-loss surgery can be difficulty digesting starchy foods and protein, which can lead to other physical conditions including hair loss, fatigue, swelling and muscle weakness.
In its review, CHMP concluded that dronedarone increases the risk of injury to the liver and the lungs and may increase the risk of cardiovascular side effects in some patients with non-permanent AF.
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But her computer model predicts that some slow-growing tumors could be treated just as well with less-frequent radiation, sparing patients bad side effects.
Emergency contraception is effective for the first 72 hours after sex, but is more likely to work the sooner it is taken, and can cause side-effects such as nausea and diarrhoea in some women.
New attempts to restrict corporate pay, at least in some sectors, is a given--overlooking the unintended side effects of Bill Clinton's attempt to limit CEO pay packages back in 1993. (The deductibility of CEOs' salaries was capped, which led companies to use stock options as never before.) Protectionists are renewing calls for trade restrictions in the name of consumer safety and promoting "better" labor and environmental standards.
There were some minor side effects such as pain at the injection site and low-grade fever.
Some surveys estimate that 140, 000 people a year die from the side-effects of prescribed drugs.
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Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
The battle over the antipsychotics market will be won in doctors' offices, he argues, and he says that being able to say Zyprexa is most effective could translate into an advantage--even if the efficacy comes at the cost of some side effects.
For some of them this also entailed strange and disturbing side effects: sleepwalking, late-night food binges, even driving in the wee hours while asleep.
Some common side effects, like nausea, dizziness or slight fatigue, are manageable--especially if the end result is pneumonia or tuberculosis, diseases that were once deadly but now can be treated with antibiotics.
That's good news, especially given some studies showing that one-fifth of all patients go off their medicines because of side effects.
"To develop a drug from scratch takes 10-15 years and a billion dollars and some of them are abruptly halted by unexpected side effects, " he said.
Yet they're exposed to anti-convulsants, anti-psychotic drugs, which have serious long-term side effects in the form of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and some movement disorders ... that can leave a person extremely disfigured physically.
Some studies say CBT is as effective as pills -- if not more -- and has no side effects.
He used a medical spray to relieve his pain but then suffered some side effects which resulted in him falling asleep in his car, exceeding the store's two-hour parking limit by 20 minutes.
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Dr Morgan hopes to put some of these new approaches into practice by embarking on a three-year study of 1, 000 university students to deal with some critical unresolved questions, such as whether light users of the drug, who take it seemingly without side-effects, are actually storing up problems for the future.
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