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By exploiting the way yeast cells mate, researchers have figured out a quicker, easier way to identify on- and off-target drug interactions.
Recent reports of dangerous side effects and even early death from heartburn medications have led some to question whether this is the right medication for them.
It’s easy to overdose on the recreational drug GHB, as recent cases in Melbourne show.
An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company’s products.
The view of many doctors that “I don’t let myself be influenced” might be the biggest barrier to change.
A new study finds that folic acid can block the effect of drugs used to treat bipolar disorder.
Thalidomide was marketed as a safe, sleep-inducing drug, but when taken during pregnancy it could cause severe birth defects.
Documents reveal thalidomide’s manufacturer was warned about possible harms as early as 1956.
Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India’s medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
With the death of Nigeria’s Dora Akunyili, a passionate campaigner against falsified and substandard medicines, the fight against fake drugs in Africa just got more difficult. Akunyili was director-general…
In 2001 I met David Graham, an official from the US Food and Drug Administration, in a car park in Washington. I wanted him to shed light on why the diabetes drug troglitazone, or Rezulin, had been available…
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