The opposition in Greece is adamant: the austerity medicine did not work the first time around.
They showed that Vytorin, a combination of the generic cholesterol drug Zocor and the newer medicine Zetia, did not reduce ultrasound readings of thickness in the neck artery any more than Zocor alone.
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The struggle for recognizing the value of family medicine did not end there.
Until he is more specific, the fear must remain that the Republicans will deliver the spoonful of sugar but not the medicine, as they did under George W. Bush.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did not reveal, at the time, that some funding came from a group called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment.
"I don't think people were ready for this, " says Leslie Citrome, a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, who did not participate in the study.
New data indicates the old vaccine did clear plaque--although whether the medicine actually stopped the deterioration of patients' minds is an open question.
In the past, biotech has never succeeded in areas like mining or manufacturing in the same way it did in medicine.
Yet Canada no longer looks the secure home of public medicine, and contrast to the United States, that it once did.
Many of the women caught in this pharmacological blast did not even realise they were pregnant when they took the medicine.
She herself blandly expressed some wonderment that others did not like getting the "medicine they dished out".
Ironically, the study of FH patients led to the development of Lipitor and Zocor and won the researchers who did the work, Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, the 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
In 2010 during the H1N1 flu epidemic, the FDA warned consumers about a potentially harmful counterfeit anti-flu drug that could be a killer in two respects: It lacked any of the flu-preventing medicine it purported to be while it did contain an antibiotic similar to penicillin that can be lethal to certain people.
For instance, aspirin seems to prevent heart attacks and cause strokes in low-risk medicine, but a controversial study showed it did the opposite in women.
Personally, I could not be doing what I do on a daily basis, if I did not also practice medicine at AmeriCares Free Clinics for the uninsured because I need this piece to define myself as a physician.
Novartis had argued that it needed a patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec, while activists said the drug did not merit intellectual property protection in India because it was not a new medicine.
It means that the doctor did three years of dedicated skin disease training at an accredited dermatology residency studying cutaneous medicine, surgery and pathology.
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Once, in a lecture, a doctor Church did not know stood up and told him he needed to change the dose of his cholesterol medicine.
It did not pluck this idea out of thin air: this was advice from the august Institute of Medicine.
One mother of two who did not wish to be identified used the over-the-counter allergy and motion-sickness medicine Phenergan for a recent flight from Australia to the US. She said the first eight hours of the flight were "agony" and that she used the medication as a last resort to help her three-year-old daughter sleep.
The rats were also quicker to return to their everyday behaviours than the ones that did not get the enzyme-blocking drugs, shows the study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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