thDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- While attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a real and pervasive condition, new
research suggests there is a cluster of kids and adults who successfully
fake the condition either to get drugs or gain special privileges in
school.
thDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription medicines are
the way that many drug addicts first get hooked, making these legal
medicines the new gateway drugs, new study findings show.
Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on use of certain clinical trials that show a new drug is no worse than another already on the market, according to a government report released on Friday.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine suffering from a chronic
illness that challenges you every single day. You have aches and pains,
difficulty getting around and sometimes suffer from surprising decreases
in energy. You take fistfuls of medication for relief and endure countless
medical procedures to keep the illness from progressing.
Reuters - Police seized about 10 metric tons of counterfeit medicines and arrested 80 people in a sweep across eastern Africa, international police agency Interpol said on Thursday.
thDay - WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Popular prescription
medications taken to control hypertension may actually boost blood
pressure in a statistically significant percentage of patients,
researchers report.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Adding therapy to the
medications an adult might be taking for attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) could lessen symptoms and improve quality of life, new
research suggests.
MALTA -- A drug shortage emergency has EMS crews doing less to hopefully have more of a chance to save patients' lives. When two major companies stopped producing much-needed medication, crews out of Malta began finding out that maybe patients were getting more than they needed.
