Great Drug, but Does It Prolong Life?
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There are some indications that statins arenât all theyâre cracked up to be.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Medical breakthroughs hold   out the prospect of living longer and healthier lives, with   current life span norms set to be turned on their head, an   expert on anti-aging said on Friday.
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A drug now used to treat breast cancer could help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer, say scientists.
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NEW YORK  - A significant percentage of patients stop taking medications prescribed after a heart attack, despite the fact that these drugs increase their chances of survival, investigators report. They call for a better system for patient follow-up to prevent unnecessary deaths related to non-usage of these drugs.
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines this past week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool
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A drug used to treat advanced breast and  lung cancers has been found to prolong the lives of men with  advanced prostate cancer whose tumors don't respond to hormone  therapy, according to two studies published on Wednesday.
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A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found.
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ATLANTA - Oct. 4, 2004 â-en with prostate cancer might survive longer by regularly taking aspirin, a new study suggests. While there have been other studies showing regular use of aspirin or other non
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- There's no 'grace period' when it comes to use of injection drugs like heroin or cocaine: A new study in Addiction finds teenage and young adult users triple their risk for death soon after taking up the habit.
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NEW YORK  - Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than one million people and 94,000 deaths.
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Good news for ageing hippies: smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease.
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I am often     warned that my time here at Kuro5hin exacerbates my symptoms of mental illness.   But in one very important way Kuro5hin serves as a medical device that enables me   to enjoy a certain very important component of sanity that would otherwise be   largely unavailable to me.    It enables me, for a time, to live free of a devasting symptom that was notably   absent from my list of symptoms that I published in three years ago in     Living with Schizoaffective Disorder because I was at the time so completely   in its grip as to be unaware even of its existence.  While I had by then undergone   over a decade of psychotherapy, I had not yet gained the insight necessary to   recognize this symptom, let alone do anything about it.    As I will explain, it is also one of the most difficult symptoms for mental   health practitioners to treat.  While some claim that some newer medications can help,   that's not my own experience.  I have found that talk therapy helps, but only very slowly,  over a period of years.
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A drug that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time among patients with advanced disease.
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Its past success bodes well for its plans for a new blood pressure drug.
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Diabetics can prevent heart disease and  live longer by taking the anti-cholesterol drug Atorvastatin,  even if they do not have particularly high cholesterol levels,  a study published on Friday said.
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Genentech Inc.  on Monday said its  colon cancer drug Avastin extended the life of patients when  used in combination with a chemotherapy regimen called FOLFOX4  more than the chemotherapy alone in a late stage clinical  trial.
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Diuretics, pills used by millions of elderly people to lower high blood pressure, clearly reduce the long-term risk of death from heart attacks and strokes, according to a study that could ease fears that the medication's risks outweigh its benefits.