There is no reason to push forward with medicines that have little chance for success.
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In the most recent issue of the journal Circulation, researchers published a 600-patient study comparing angioplasty, open-heart surgery, and treatment with medicines.
And recent studies show that children with serious depression often receive significant long-term benefits in their lives from being treated with medicines.
It seems to me there are people who have seen problems with medicines, and there hasn't been enough consideration for their point of view.
Doctors like Nissen and Shah believe that whenever possible, patients should be treated with medicines that have been proven to be both safe and effective.
When asked about the reaction of patients, she said there was no justification for treating patients with medicines the BMA believes have no evidence of efficacy.
Moreover, the company has had a string of regulatory disappointments with medicines like indiplon, a sleeping pill, and more recently an antipsychotic that it was developing with Akzo Nobel.
They tend to be most severe when, as is often the case with medicines for treating psychosis, they are prescribed without the full involvement of the person taking them or above recommended dosage levels.
Moreover, the company has had a string of regulatory disappointments with medicines like indiplon, a sleeping pill, and more recently an antipsychotic that it was developing with Akzo Nobel (nasdaq: AKZOY - news - people ).
We live in an ever-changing world with new medicines coming on the market every month.
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Not only BMC series, many kinds of peer-reviewerd scientific medical journals published the article concerned with traditional medicines.
That means it also graduates from our list of New Drugs To Watch, which deals exclusively with experimental medicines.
"People have been treating themselves and their children satisfactorily with cough medicines bought over-the-counter for many decades, " said a spokeswoman.
Better adherence to diet and exercise could help control that and reduce the risk associated with the medicines, he added.
"Another death involved a 10-month-old infant who presented with septic shock following treatment with homeopathic medicines and dietary restriction for chronic eczema, " the authors say.
Treatment with Belviq may cause serious side effects, including serotonin syndrome, particularly when taken with certain medicines that increase serotonin levels or activate serotonin receptors.
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In fact, one might argue that the pharmaceutical industry is obligated to run such expensive trials to help advance the understanding of medical outcomes with new medicines.
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But no matter how much he spins it, there's no avoiding the essential nature of the drug business: Big growth will come only if Glaxo's labs come through with new medicines.
Vytorin combines Zocor with another drug, Zetia, which lowers cholesterol in a different way without the potential for side effects that come along with statin medicines such as Zocor and Lipitor.
The FDA has been under fire in Congress and the press for the past three years over its handling of Vioxx, the Merck drug yanked from the market that became synonymous with unsafe medicines.
One clue to possible concerns for the FDA panelists comes from a fan of the drug who says he would support significant restrictions on lorcaserin in order to prevent it from being combined with other medicines.
Gopal Dabade of All India Drug Action Network, an India-based non-profit group that works for access to essential medicines, said the ruling will allow Indian generic manufacturers to continue to supply Indians and consumers in other developing countries with cheap medicines.
The FDA has been under fire in Congress and the press for the past three years over its handling of Vioxx, the Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) drug yanked from the market that became synonymous with unsafe medicines.
Although the Food and Drug Administration recently did approve Singulair as an allergy pill, the drug must still compete with prescription medicines from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), as well as what could be a slew of cheap, generic over-the-counter versions of Schering-Plough 's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Claritin.
CATIE, which is following patients randomly assigned to an antipsychotic for two years, could finally settle the debate over whether there is an advantage--or a big risk--associated with any one of these necessary medicines, compared with the others.
These include medicines with potential for treating cancer, diabetes, AIDS and (think 60% of Americans) obesity.
But the finding could help other companies with new heart medicines get their drugs to market faster.
What we really need are potent antiviral medicines with broad activity against many different strains of pandemic virus.
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