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UK wants GSK’s Avandia pulled as EU reviews safety (Reuters)

Reuters - GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from sale because of concerns about heart risks, British drug regulators said on Monday ahead of a special European meeting on the drug’s safety.

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Diet Pill Meridia Ups Heart Attack Risk: Study (HealthDay)

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Diet Pill Meridia Ups Heart Attack Risk: Study
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Drug Appears to Prolong Survival in Stomach Cancer Patients (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) — Use of the drug trastuzumab in addition to chemotherapy can extend stomach cancer patients’ survival by nearly three months, a new study has found.

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Radiation Not Needed in Many Older Breast Cancer Patients (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — A new study provides more support for the idea of allowing women aged 70 and older with early stage breast cancer to avoid radiation treatment if they have undergone a lumpectomy and treatment with the drug tamoxifen.

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Radiation Not Needed in Many Older Breast Cancer Patients
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Common Diabetes Drug Linked to Vitamin B-12 Deficiency (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — Diabetics who take the drug metformin over the long term should get their vitamin B-12 levels checked regularly to see if they are developing a vitamin deficiency, a new report suggests.

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Common Diabetes Drug Linked to Vitamin B-12 Deficiency
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Sustained Avastin aids colon cancer survival: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Colorectal cancer patients who continued treatment with Roche Holding AG’s Avastin even after their cancer worsened lived longer than those who went off the drug, according to an “observational analysis” released on Thursday.

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Viagra May Aid Those With Lung Fibrosis (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — People with a serious lung disease that causes progressive scarring of the lung tissue might get some relief from sildenafil, the drug used in Viagra, a new study finds.

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Viagra May Aid Those With Lung Fibrosis
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Injection Helps Treat Hard-to-Control Type 2 Diabetes (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) — Patients with type 2 diabetes who can’t control their blood glucose levels with the drug metformin alone do better after adding injections of the drug liraglutide compared to oral doses of another drug called sitagliptin, researchers report.

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Top US psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup (AP)

AP - American psychiatrists need to break away from a “culture of influence” created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal.

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Top US psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup (AP)

AP - American psychiatrists need to break away from a “culture of influence” created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal.

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