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...study overturns the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux. The study published this week's New England Journal of Medicine finds that the drugs, such as Prilosec and Nexium, may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma...
Vasella knows, though, that he can't insulate Novartis from the rising public rebellion against drug prices. According to the advocacy group Families USA, prices of such branded drugs as Novartis' Miacalcin and AstraZeneca's Prilosec have grown at twice the rate of inflation, even as government controls have kept the same prescriptions much cheaper in most other countries. Patients in the U.S.--who account for roughly half the drug industry's annual global revenues of $364 billion--are howling, and they are getting heard in Congress. But so is Vasella, who employs 19,000 Americans and recently opened...
...Pushing that envelope in internal medicine often means using drugs we used to be scared of. Vancomycin (an antibiotic) and Prilosec (an antacid) were two we ruminated over like we were deciding to drop the bomb. They barely get a second thought these days. The dreaded side-effects just aren't that common. For reasons never clear to the surgeons, new drugs catch on in waves; first it was Prozac, then Zoloft, now its Lexipro. All our patients were on Lipitor, now they're on Crestor. Treating numbers like bone density and LDL cholesterol instead of treating fractures and clogged...
...Anti-heartburn drugs may only make things worse, with one study suggesting that people taking the type of medications marketed as Prilosec and Prevacid are almost three times as likely to suffer a C. diff attack as non-users, and those taking the type marketed as Pepcid or Zantac may be twice as likely. It seems that bacteria don't like stomach acid any better than consumers do, and when you suppress it chemically the bugs have a better chance of surviving...
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