With New Sleeping Pill, New Acceptability?
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Lunesta, a new sleeping pill approved for the market on Wednesday, will be the first whose label will not recommend it be taken for only 7 to 10 days.
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A month after distribution began, the over-the-counter version of the morning-after pill is now available at pharmacies nationwide. Planned Parenthood celebrated yesterday with a free giveaway of the emergency contraceptive, while critics insisted that Plan B's accessibility will soon be a cause for regret.
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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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Ambien, the popular sleep medication known for its odd side effects, helps a 48-year-old woman out of a near vegetative state. In Bodyhack.
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WHAT THEY FOUND: Insomnia is more effectively treated with behavioral therapy than a popular sleeping pill, known as Ambien. WHO WAS INCLUDED: 63 people with chronic insomnia; some received Ambien alone, others
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A handful of therapy sessions does more to help chronic insomniacs get to sleep than the top-selling sleeping pill, according to a new Harvard Medical School
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Treatment with melatonin significantly improved subjective sleep quality in 12 women with mild to moderate asthma, as compared with 10 asthmatic women who took placebo, according to a study in the first issue for November 2004 of the American Thoracic
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If its latest drug isn't approved, the pharmaceutical could face trouble.
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Here's what a newly approved drug looks like.
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Designed to aid either napping or nighttime slumber, these novel programs can aid relaxation -- or not.
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Many people who take sleep medications think they work far better than laboratory measurements show they do.
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - Scientists reported on  Wednesday a remarkable new side effect of the Pill -- it  changes women's preference in men.
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NEW YORK  - Many women who value the option of over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills for themselves may worry that it's not a good idea for women in general, a small survey suggests.
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In the US drug industry, it often takes a disaster to bring change. Not until thousands of European babies were deformed by thalidomide in the late 1950s and early 1960s did Congress raise standards for approvals.
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The government revived efforts Monday to widen access to the morning-after pill, but only to women 18 and older, issuing a surprise announcement that it was reconsidering over-the-counter sale of the emergency contraceptive almost a year after it was thought doomed.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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Wyeth WYE.N on Monday said it will  support proposed changes to a national settlement with former  users of its "fen-phen" diet drugs, allowing quicker  settlements for claims related to some of the less serious side  effects from the recalled appetite suppressants.