Doctors have known that some children and adolescents taking stimulant medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder experience psychiatric symptoms from the drugs, such as hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoia and mania. In 2007, the Food and Drug Administration ordered manufacturers of stimulant medications to add new warnings about psychiatric and cardiovascular side effects to package inserts. And patient medication guides are also Read the rest of this entry »

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people who may want to lose weight in the new year. WFMZ’s Melissa Batulis has more on a list of what may be hidden in your diet plan.
  REPORTER: They’re weight loss products that claim to be herbal or healthy. But it’s what they don’t say that has federal regulators and doctors worried. 
BANEY: At worst, could kill you. 
REPORTER: The FDA released a list of 25 weight loss pills including 7 Day Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget Barack Obama’s staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What’s got everyone talking is the president-elect’s fine first form.
“FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk,” the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him “President Beefcake” while TMZ said the president-elect is “still humble enough Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – An epilepsy drug used to
treat partial seizures in adults can cause excessive acidity of
the blood in some patients, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration said on Monday.
4523.T
).
Generic makers include Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd
(
TEVA.TA
), Mylan Inc (
MYL.O
), Novartis AG’s (
NOVN.VX
WPI.N
), according to the
FDA’s website.
The condition, known as metabolic acidosis, can include a
variety Read the rest of this entry »

American
study has revealed that high levels of insulin increase the risk of breast
cancer in women.
Lead researchers Marc Gunter and
Howard Strickler, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York,
revealed that they examined the role of insulin in breast cancer while
controlling for oestrogen levels.
This attains significance because,
while the proneness to breast cancer has been attributed to high oestrogen
levels in many obese Read the rest of this entry »

: Drinking too many cups of joe might not only bring on a case of jitters, but it could provoke hallucinations, a study by England’s Durham University finds. The study, published in the journal
, concludes that people with a high caffeine level from coffee, tea, or energy drinks are more likely to see things or hear voices that are not real. High caffeine users, defined as those who drank the equivalent of seven cups of instant coffee a day, were Read the rest of this entry »

MONDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) — The interaction between white blood cells of the immune system and blood vessels may contribute to epileptic seizures, new research suggests.
If this turns out to be the case, such interactions may be a target for new treatments or even preventive measures for epilepsy, said researchers reporting in the Nov. 23 issue of
.
“This opens a window to a mechanism that we hadn’t really seen in this way,” said Dr. Read the rest of this entry »

Akron, OH
Albuquerque, NM
Anaheim, CA
Anchorage, AK
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA
Aurora, CO
Austin, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Baltimore, MD
Baton Rouge, LA
Birmingham, AL
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Chandler, AZ
Charlotte, NC
Chesapeake, VA
Chicago, IL
Chula Vista, CA
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs, CO
Columbus, OH
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Durham, NC
El Paso, TX
Read the rest of this entry »

What you eat during your pregnancy could causes changes in the foetal brain, leading to over-eating later on in life.
The new research carried out by the Rockefeller University team found that a high fatty diet during pregnancy could cause offspring to have more brain cells specialised to produce appetite-stimulating proteins. 
The latest study suggests exposure to fats known as triglycerides from the mother’s diet has the same effect on the Read the rest of this entry »

, taken by tens of millions of Americans to prevent painful bone fractures caused by the disease, may cause esophageal cancer, according to a prestigious medical journal.
, an official from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the agency has received 23 reports of the cancer, which targets the esophagus, between October 2005 when Fosamax was released and May 2008. Of those 23 reports,
.
The report of deadly adverse reactions focused on Read the rest of this entry »