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When doctors prescribe medication, the goal is to reduce troubling symptoms—or even cure a particular medical condition. But sometimes a medication's side effects can be as bad as the condition being treated. While some side effects, such as a...
Men who take aspirin "regularly" have significantly lower prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels than those who do not according to a...
Researchers in Egypt examined whether drinking green tea while taking an antibiotic would affect the medicine's ability to fight bacteria....
Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in the US. What most people don't realize is that because drug...
A drug currently used to treat nausea can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from illegal and prescription opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine...
The popular drug alendronate sodium (Fosamax) has been prescribed to millions of people (mostly women) suffering from osteoporosis, a weakening of the...
The proportion of people taking widely prescribed oral osteoporosis drugs who develop a nasty jaw condition may be much higher than previously...
When a pregnant woman with epilepsy takes the medication mal proate (Depakote), her baby's intelligence may be lowered for at...
Moderate, long-term use of opioid pain medications, such as morphine, does not impair a person's driving ability, US researchers report....
A drug used to treat epileptic seizures could help alcoholics control their addiction, a study suggests. The drug, topiramate (Topamax), proved measurably...
Doctors may be overprescribing anti-reflux medications to infants, recent research suggests. Reflux, which occurs when stomach contents reflux, or back up, into...
A US government review of the popular heartburn drugs omeprazole (Prilosec) and esomeprazole (Nexium) found no evidence of increased heart risks, according...