Medications

Pfizer Accuretic Recall

Pfizer recalls blood pressure drug Accuretic due to potential carcinogen

A $35 insulin cap is welcome, popular and bipartisan, but Congress may not pass it anyway

Insulin Cap

Ketamine use for depression remains experimental, but it may reduce suicidal thoughts

Ketamine Depression Treatment

Alcoholism drug has potential as a COVID-19 treatment, but studies are just getting underway

Disulfiram alcoholism COVID-19

Lane Johnson shines a spotlight on anxiety disorders and the drugs used to treat them

Lane Johnson Anxiety SSRIs

A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say

Antiviral COVID-19 Pill

New lupus drug with fewer side effects approved by FDA

New Lupus drug FDA

For migraine sufferers, finding an effective treatment can be a headache

Migraine sufferers

Some blood pressure medications linked to greater skin cancer risk, study finds

Sun safety to prevent skin cancer

Diabetes drug helped obese patients lose 15% of their body weight, study shows

diabetes semaglutide weight study

FDA grants emergency use authorization to Regeneron COVID-19 antibody cocktail

Psoriasis medications don't increase risk for severe COVID-19, analysis finds

Psoriasis COVID-19 risk

Safety concerns temporarily halt Eli Lilly's COVID-19 antibody therapy trial

NIH study confirms remdesivir shortens COVID-19 recovery time

NIH remdesivir report

Not pandemic-proof: Insulin copay caps fall short, fueling underground exchanges

Insulin Underground Exchanges

Smokers should begin cessation drugs, then decide when to quit

Smoking cessation guidelines

Long-term use of muscle relaxants on alarming rise, Penn researchers find

Muscle Relaxants Penn

Children's Health

FDA approves dispersible HIV drug for newborn infants, children

New HIV drug for children

Remdesivir fails to meet expectations as COVID-19 treatment in first clinical trial

Penn Medicine launches hydroxychloroquine trial to evaluate COVID-19 treatment possibility

Penn Medicine launches trial to evaluate hydroxychloroquine as possible COVID-19 treatment

Zantac, ranitidine generics removed from market due to cancer-causing impurity

FDA pulls Zantac ranitidine market

Amazon's Alexa can now answer common medication questions

Amazon's Alexa can now answer common medication questions

Arthritis pain reliever Voltaren to be sold over the counter

Voltaren Arthritis pain reliever

For advanced prostate cancer patients, statins offer hope of a longer life

Statins reduce mortality in prostate cancer patients

Children's Health

Palforzia, the first peanut allergy drug, to hit market later this year

Palforzia Peanut Allergy Drug

Doctors in Thailand treat coronavirus with anti-viral cocktail of HIV drugs and Tamiflu

HIV Flu drugs treat Coronavirus

Does Tylenol cause cancer? California considers declaring acetaminophen a carcinogen

Tylenol Acetaminophen Cancer Carcinogen

Recurrent miscarriages could be treated by a type 2 diabetes medication, study says

Recurrent miscarriages treatment

Are generic drugs safe? Not necessarily

Generic Drug Safety

Potential game-changing migraine medication passes large-scale clinical trial

Migraine drug research

FDA keeps brand-name drugs on a fast path to market – despite manufacturing concerns

Batch of Xanax medication recalled due to 'foreign substance'

Xanax pharma

Study links blood pressure medication to suicide risk, but some health experts are skeptical

blood pressure medication suicide

What are the alternatives to Zantac?

Zantac alternative medications

Children's Health

Pediatricians stand by meds for ADHD – but some want therapy first

ADHD Medications Therapy AAP

Here's the best way to handle fall allergies

Fall Allergies Philadelphia

New pill could treat both blood pressure, cholesterol issues

blood pressure cholesterol pill

What’s the difference between acetaminophen and ibuprofen?

Ibuprofren Motrin

Heartburn medications can cause more harm than good, large study finds

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Several sleeping pills must carry new warning about rare – but deadly – side effects

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FDA approves new medication for severe depression

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New epilepsy treatment is the first FDA-approved cannabis-based drug

Carroll - NJ Marijuana Dispensary

Best to skip the Afrin and other nasal sprays when you get a cold

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