Medicine in 2004: Proceed with caution
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The year in medicine can be summed up best as the year Americans increasingly were forced to peer into their medicine cabinets with a wary eye.
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More openness is needed over clinical drug trial results  to stop them being distorted, leading medical journals say.
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Professor Garret A FitzGerald, an eminent cardiologists, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says doctors should be cautious about using Vioxx type medicines, especially if the patient is at risk of heart disease.
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Patients will be put at risk by a new regulatory system being brought in for homeopathic medicine, experts say.
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Doctors are being urged to think twice before prescribing certain painkillers in light of new evidence suggesting they may increase cardiovascular risk.
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For some patients, it can be difficult to determine how much treatment is just too much.
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The complex nature of drug names can cause prescription errors and be harmful to patients, academics say.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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12/21/04 -- It&#39;s the third largest pain relief drug in recent months to be linked with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession.&quot;
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Drug distributors would like to forget 2004. But this may mean bargains for investors.
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Every year, doctors write approximately 65 million prescriptions for drugs not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency that regulates prescription drugs.
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SOME of Britainâs most popular medicines are to be reviewed by drug regulators after claims by an American scientist that they pose severe risks to patients and should not be prescribed.
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The pharmaceutical industry endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug
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20/12/2004 - Consumers should forget about taking medication to help them stay healthy longer and change their diet instead, suggest scientists writing in this weekâs British Medical Journal.
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It&#39;s not been a good year for the Food and Drug Administration â-ith a controversy over the use of antidepressants by children and adolescents, the withdrawal