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Amazon Ventures Into Digital Pharmacy: Online Prescription and Free Delivery Service for Prime Members

Nov 18, 2020 AM EST

Amazon launches its online pharmacy making prescription medicine easier to acquire.

MD News Daily- Misconceptions Surrounding Flu Vaccine

Experts Say You Need to Get the Flu Shot This 'Twindemic'

Sep 10, 2020 PM EDT

Experts urge people to get the flu shot during this looming "twindemic".

MD News Daily - Mylan Secured RIghts to Aspen's Injectable Anticoagulants After Shelling Out $756M

Mylan Secures Rights to Aspen's Injectable Anticoagulants for $756M

Sep 08, 2020 PM EDT

About $756 million will be shelled out to acquire South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare's sterile injectable anticoagulants.

MD News Daily - Three Dimensional (3 D Image Displays A Computerised Visualization Of A Human Heart

Patients Can Now Interpret Their Own ECG at Home

Sep 07, 2020 AM EDT

Researchers at Manchester University recently developed a simple technique enabling patients to monitor their own electrocardiograms for drug-induced long QT syndrome, a life-threatening illness.

MD News Daily- First Human Death This Year Due to Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Wisconsin Reports 2020's First Death Due to Rare Disease from Mosquito Bite

Sep 07, 2020 AM EDT

A woman in her 60s has been infected with the eastern equine encephalitis (EEE.) She has become the second case of infection in the state of Wisconsin, and the first to die as a result.

MD News Daily- Deer Heads Being Returned to Keep Chronic Wasting Disease At Bay

Hunters can help with control of Chronic Wasting Disease

Sep 05, 2020 PM EDT

Chronic Wasting Disease can be detected early with the help of hunters

FDA Warns That Daily Aspirin is "Not For Everyone"

May 06, 2014 PM EDT

Daily aspirin use can help prevent health attack and other cardiovascular complications in some people, but for most, the known risks outweigh the unproven benefits of the daily regimen, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports.

Indian Drug Company Slips Up Again, Allergy Meds Recalled

May 02, 2014 PM EDT

It has been revealed that drug company Ranbaxy is in the midst of recalling tens-of-thousands of packets of generic anti-allergy medication. This is far from the first time the Indian drug company has fallen out of favor with the United States Food a..

Cancer Drug Resistance Explained

Apr 21, 2014 PM EDT

The biomarker that aids tumors in becoming resistant to cancer-fighting drugs has been identified by investigative researchers, according to a recent study, potentially creating opportunities to increase the effectiveness of cancer-fighting medicatio..

Congress Questions High Price of Revolutionary Pill

Mar 25, 2014 PM EDT

Members of congress have contacted the chief executive officer of drug company Gilead Sciences Inc. requesting a briefing so that the company's experts can explain why a revolutionary and potentially life-saving treatment of Hepatitis C costs an esti..

FDA Approves Pill for Psoriatic Arthritis

Mar 22, 2014 PM EDT

U.S health regulators have approved the sale of a new treatment for psoriatic arthritis through prescription. The drug, which comes in pill-form, will be the first treatment of its kind for the unusual type of arthritis, which is normally treated thr..