The health and fitness industry is full of promises, from pills and shakes that promise weight loss with little or no effort, to drugs that cause horrific side effects and can put your health at risk.
Rather embarrassingly, the pills from the compounders (meaning prescription D) were almost as variable as the OTC pills, varying from 23% to146% of the expected dose.
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If pharma and device companies can broaden their lens from providing pills and implants to creating full solutions for disease states, they can vastly expand the value they create and offset intense pricing pressure within their core products.
Rozerem, generically known as ramelteon, works completely differently from other sleeping pills, and may not need any of the restrictions from the Drug Enforcement Agency that affect other sleep aids.
Of the 200, 000 or so Japanese women thought to take high-dose pills illicitly for contraception some are smokers, and so at the greatest risk from these older pills.
And just as I thought of black humor Lihn extracted a little bottle of pills from his pocket.
At the same time a steel arm with a rotary pick head plucks lower-volume pills from their respective tubes.
They are worried that several states and other jurisdictions already encourage residents to order cheap prescription pills from Canada and other countries.
He would shake out into his palm a handful of pills from a bottle, open his wide red mouth, and fail to swallow them.
CocoaWell dietary supplement pills from Reserveage Organics LLC, Gainesville, Fla.
In the future, further lowering the risk of heart disease is likely to come not from more powerful cholesterol drugs, but from adding new pills on top of them.
The vaccine differs from birth control pills not only in the size of its benefit to recipients, but also because the vaccine benefits more than simply the person who receives it.
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Pills from Pfizer and Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) that hit not only VEGF, the Avastin target, but also other proteins in the cell, are showing incredible promise.
But there are tantalizing signs as the FDA prepares to review suvorexant that this drug may be fundamentally different from current sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata, lacking their rare but troubling side effects, like memory loss and sleepwalking.
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Dr. Rakel and his colleagues used pills made from the roots of two species of echinacea, Echinacea purpurea and Echinacea angustifolia, which are found in most commercially available echinacea products.
Physicians can legally prescribe medications for uses not specifically approved by the FDA. But most obesity doctors do so cautiously given the history of diet pills removed from the market due to serious side effects including death.
And even if torcetrapib fails, Pfizer has a host of back-up pills, both from its own laboratories and from its purchase of Esperion.
Sleeping pills such as Ambien from Sanofi-Aventis and Lunesta from Sepracor have been some of most heavily advertised drugs.
Sleeping pills such as Ambien from Sanofi-Aventis and Lunesta from Sepracor (nasdaq: SEPR - news - people ) have been some of most heavily advertised drugs.
Five thousand vendors, who peddle everything on Ebay from 270hp Yamaha jet boats and Louis XVI domed canopy beds to breast-enhancement pills, gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center, not far from Disneyland, over the first weekend of summer.
For instance, mutations in a particular gene seem to determine whether lung tumors are shrunk by pills such as Tarceva, from Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: OSIP - news - people ) and Roche, and Iressa, from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ).
Some suspect that its opposition stems from the fear that many expensive and profitable pills would be found to be of dubious value.
Because the pills had often differed in appearance from refill to refill depending on the generic manufacturer, I assumed that the two varieties were just different brands of generics.
"We've also used birth control pills to eliminate periods in women suffering from endometriosis, " said Dr. Sarah Berga, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Patent protection--which keeps anyone from selling cheaper versions of easy-to-make pills--is the main reason branded prescription drugs are the most profitable product on the planet.
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, people who live near nuclear plants have been buying potassium iodide pills, which can help protect against cancer from radiation exposure.
"The exact contents of the pills are unknown, but they could, from past experience, contain a cocktail of different substances, " a spokesman from the Scottish force said.
The drug works by using high doses of the female hormone progestin, which also is contained in birth-control pills, to block a potentially fertilized egg from becoming implanted in a woman's uterus.
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That night, she checked on me from time to time to make sure I took the pills and drank enough liquids and was fully covered with a thick comforter of hers, so that I could sweat out my flu.
Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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