Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As officials begin clinical trials for several coronavirus treatments, antimalarial medications and other antibiotics are beginning to trend online, prompting concern that people may be searching their own medicine cabinet for similar ingredients. At least one report suggests a couple […]
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FDA announces coronavirus-related drug shortage in US
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the first coronavirus-related drug shortage in the U.S., but did not reveal which product is being affected and said there are alternatives currently available to patients. “We are working with the manufacturer as well as other manufacturers to mitigate the shortage,” the FDA said in a statement, […]
How some states are taking unusual action to lower prescription drug prices
Amid the issue of high prescription drug prices in the United States, “pharmaceutical tourism” is starting to become a new way out: unusual action for access to lower prescription drug prices. According to a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, six in 10 Americans were taking at least one prescription drug and 79 percent of […]
How some states are taking unusual action to lower prescription drug prices
Amid the issue of high prescription drug prices in the United States, “pharmaceutical tourism” is starting to become a new way out: unusual action for access to lower prescription drug prices. According to a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, six in 10 Americans were taking at least one prescription drug and 79 percent of […]
Production of 2 Excedrin migraine products suspended
Migraine sufferers soon may have to seek relief elsewhere after GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced it temporarily halted the production of two popular Excedrin products. In a statement sent to Fox News, the company said it was not recalling either Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets and Geltabs or Excedrin Migraine Caplets and Geltabs, but that it had discovered […]
Man burns ‘from inside out’ in rare reaction to medication: ‘Am I going to die?’
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW A 38-year-old Indiana man whose eyes had to be sewed shut and his body covered in pigskin as he burned from the inside out due to a rare reaction to a medication is urging others diagnosed with the condition to “be brave.” Jonathan Laird said it started three years ago with […]
Woman says birth control pills led to ‘massive’ blood clots that nearly killed her: ‘I’m lucky to be alive’
A 33-year-old British woman says she nearly died after birth control pills led her to develop two “massive” blood clots in her lungs. Lauren Dyer, of Tamworth, England, told Birmingham Live that she suddenly fainted while home in February 2019. Her brother, who was with her at the time, called an ambulance for Dyer, who […]
California should have its own generic prescription drug label, governor says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California could become the first state with its own prescription drug label under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday. Newsom wants California, home to nearly 40 million people, to contract with generic drug companies to make prescription medications on its behalf so it could then sell them to the public. The […]
Popular nerve drugs could cause ‘serious’ breathing problems, FDA says
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are warning that popular nervous system medications can cause dangerous breathing problems when combined with opioids and certain other drugs. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it would add new warnings to packaging for Neurontin, Lyrica and generic versions, which are used to treat seizures, nerve pain, restless […]
Popular nerve drugs could cause ‘serious’ breathing problems, FDA says
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are warning that popular nervous system medications can cause dangerous breathing problems when combined with opioids and certain other drugs. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it would add new warnings to packaging for Neurontin, Lyrica and generic versions, which are used to treat seizures, nerve pain, restless […]
