Abuse of prescribed slimming drug seen in HK
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Hong Kong doctors are over prescribing a slimming drug to women desperate to lose weight, pharmacists said on Friday, warning its misuse could increase the risk of stroke.
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A recent survey has found that one out of every five children in the north China municipality of Tianjin is overweight. For each hour a day spent in front of the television the risk increases an average of
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With the Chinese economy booming and people&#39;s living standards rising, the number of overweight citizens in the world&#39;s most populous nation has shot up to 200 million, which could trigger a major health hazard, the government said here today.
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NEW YORK  - A high-fat diet may make people more vulnerable to a potentially lethal side effect of the drug ecstasy, new animal research suggests.
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Â· Number of people treated almost doubles Â· Focus on heroin and crack 'should be reviewed'
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A campaign is launched to get members of the public to report any side-effects from medicines.
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Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases, the BBC learns, as some doctors view it as neglect.
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Muscle creams have drawn attention because toxicology tests reveal that the death of a 17-year-old in New York was caused by overusing such rubs.
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Serotonin syndrome, a form of drug poisoning, is a not-so-rare and potentially life-threatening disorder.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan could lead to problems for Muslims taking oral prescription drugs, says an article in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal.
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HANGZHOU, China -- In spring 2006, an essay appeared on the Internet detailing collusion between the Chinese government's food and drug watchdog agency and a pharmaceutical venture. It accused the country's highest-ranking regulator of accepting a lakeside house and hundreds of thousands of dollars...
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In research published today in the American Journal of Epidemiology a team of researchers from Imperial College London, the Health Protection Agency, Medical Research Council and GlaxoSmithKline analysed the numbers of opiate and injecting drug users who
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The results of a small study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that the epilepsy drug topiramate may provide long-term benefits for people with binge-eating disorder and obesity.
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One of the largest-ever studies of HIV treatment has found that patients who temporarily stop taking their powerful medicines more than double their risk of dying.
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Young people are increasingly abusing a drug found in nonprescription cough medicines that can produce hallucinogenic effects, but at a risk to their well-being, researchers said on Monday.
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A San Francisco public health official has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to reclassify Viagra as a controlled substance, which would place the popular impotence pill in a category reserved for prescribed steroids and other legal drugs
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A report last week tying the Type 2 diabetes pill Avandia to increased risk for heart attack and heart-related deaths prompted a flood of calls to local doctors and Internet postings from patients seeking advice about whether to continue taking the commonly prescribed medication.