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Most Medications for Kids Have Inaccurate Dosing

When buying over-the-counter medications for their children, parents may expect a quick solution to their child’s ailment, but a new study shows that measuring out that medication provides its own challenges. Researchers looked at 200 of the top-selling nonprescription liquid medications on shelves and found that nearly all had inconsistent directions: The labels on the [...]

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Prescribed drugs cause 3 pct of French car crashes

Prescribed drugs are responsible for more than three percent of road crashes in France and an international system should be agreed to warn of the risks of driving on medication, scientists said on Monday. In France, the effects of drugs on driving performance are classified into 4 levels of risk, from level 0, which signifies [...]

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Change in drug payment rule may trigger headaches

A headache awaits people who use those tax-free health spending accounts to pay for over-the-counter allergy relievers, heartburn blockers and other drugstore remedies. Starting next year, you’ll need a prescription for the drugs to qualify. The change in so-called Flexible Spending Accounts is part of the new health care law, and doctors are bracing for [...]

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Drugmakers, academics join up on mental illness

Nine major pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pool data on drug trials with academic institutions in an effort to improve ways of developing of new prescription medicines to treat psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. The collaboration, which involves Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Roche among others, will bring together data on 67 trials on 11 [...]

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Epilepsy Meds Linked to Infertility

Women with epilepsy may have an increased risk of infertility, especially if they are taking multiple anti-seizure medications, a new study suggests. The study found that women with epilepsy are more than twice as likely to be infertile than women without the condition. And women who take three or more anti-seizure medications are 18 times [...]

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