Drug News  

The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could ... Read more

Washington University in St. Louis scientists have developed a smart gold nanocage covered with a polymer which can act as an effective drug delivery system.

The nanocage is fill... Read more

A novel computer program has identified thousands of new targets for existing drugs by comparing the molecular structures of drug compounds and chemicals that occur naturally in the body. Read more

Penicillin and several other antibacterial medications commonly taken by pregnant women are not associated with many birth defects, reveals a new study.

However, the study also s... Read more

A single dose of swine flu vaccine produces a robust immune response in pregnant women, one of the groups at high risk of dying from (A)H1N1 influenza, but young children need two shots, US ... Read more

A new drug that is claimed to be effective in killing leukemia cells has been developed by researchers at Trinity College Dublin in partnership with the University of Sienna in Italy, St Jam... Read more

An article, published in the Drug And Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), has said that healthy people must not take aspirin to prevent heart attacks as its risks far outweigh the benefits.
Read more

Despite being highly effective for many patients, some new complications are emerging in patients who are prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for reflux diseases, scientists hav... Read more

Dosage should be increased to make gout drug effective, say New Zealand researchers.

They have established that thousands of gout sufferers may have been taking too lower dose of the... Read more

Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg S... Read more