Caution, Not Panic, Seen After Drug Warnings
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A new study investigated the effects of changes to labels on antidepressant use nationwide.
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Two new studies are offering mixed  signals about the long-term safety of repeatedly giving  pregnant women steroid drugs intended to prevent complications  once a premature delivery seems likely.
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British medical regulators urged physicians on Monday to show greater caution in prescribing antidepressant drugs and said they should be clearly labeled with warnings about their use.
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Alcohol, not drugs, linked to incidents, says survey.
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Patients taking a common drug to prevent blood clots to reduce heart attack and stroke risk now rely on a doctor's determination that they will not suffer excessive bleeding.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health advisers considering more stringent warning labels for anti-depressants linked to suicidal thoughts among children were told on Tuesday that a new warning added in March appeared to have little impact on children's use of the drugs.    Children aged 1 to 17 still account for 7 percent of anti-depressants prescribed, said Michael Evans of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Drug Safety...
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According to Dr. Mark Fendrick, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, the take-home message from the current scare over pain drugs is this: No matter
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From coast to coast, warnings about several popular anti-inflammatory painkillers are triggering  confusion and anxiety.
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Americans should feel reasonably safe taking government-approved prescription drugs - with a few caveats - even after a popular arthritis medication was pulled from the market, medical experts say.
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Warning labels for certain steroid-based allergy and asthma drugs provide sufficient warnings about potential side effects -- including stunted growth --  in children and teenagers,  a U.S. panel of medical experts concluded on Wednesday.
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The new recommendations were designed to reassure worried doctors that they will not be prosecuted for prescribing high doses of powerful morphine derivatives for patients who need them.
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The public should have reasonable expectations that medicines the Food and Drug Administration has approved for the market are, in fact, safe.
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency's monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold.
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Concern over the safety of anti-inflammatory drugs such as Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex intensified on Tuesday after regulators advised 600,000 Britons with heart problems to switch to other treatments as soon as convenient.
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WASHINGTON - Alarmed at a recommendation that antidepressants for children carry a strict new warning label, some parents are not letting their kids take the drugs as part of a clinical trial for young people who have attempted suicide.    Government health advisers said last week the labels on these drugs should have bold warnings surrounded by a black box to draw attention and say that, in some cases, the medication increases suicidal thoughts and behavior...
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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - Warning labels for certain  steroid-based allergy and asthma drugs provide sufficient  warnings about potential side effects -- including stunted  growth --  in children and teenagers,  a U.S. panel of medical  experts concluded on Wednesday.