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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a study looking at the potential therapeutic effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)—an illegal hallucinatory drug also known as “Ecstasy”—in terminally ill cancer patients at McLean Hospital, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School...
...bill of health. The National Institutes of Health issued its warning on naproxen based on a study of long-term use that hasn't been completely analyzed--and is contradicted by other findings. But the latest rash of drug scares serves as a timely reminder that even the safest FDA-approved medications can have side effects--some of them serious. (Don't think you're in the clear if you take herbals and other alternative remedies. Much less is known about their safety...
...team surveyed 129 high-risk women about the drug Tamoxifen, the first and only drug approved by the FDA to inhibit breast cancer...
When it was approved in 2000 as an alternative to surgical abortion, RU 486 was hailed by women's groups as the greatest breakthrough since the Pill. But after the deaths of three women who had taken the drug to terminate unwanted pregnancies, the FDA issued a black-box warning about the risk of death from bacterial infections and other complications. The pill's supporters insist that when properly used, RU 486 is no riskier than a surgical abortion and considerably safer than carrying a pregnancy to term...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week tightened restrictions on the prescription acne medication Accutane (isotretinoin) and its generic equivalents. The drug has long been known to cause birth defects, and in 2002, Accutane's manufacturer, Roche, had put a program in place to further limit fetal exposure. But now the FDA says that program, along with several similar efforts to restrict use of the generic equivalents, created confusion and failed to protect pregnant women and their embryos. Under the new measures, manufacturers will register doctors who prescribe the drug, pharmacies that dispense it and patients who take it. Patients...