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Drug shortages "inevitable", health minister says
6 Feb 12 | 16.17 | England Scotland Wales
Medicine shortages are "inevitable" given the number of prescriptions dispensed each year, health minister Simon Burns MP said last week...
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Tighter controls needed over websites selling POMs to public
3 Feb 12 | 11.40 | International
Tighter controls are needed over the online advertising of prescription drugs, researchers have concluded...
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Risks for women smokers taking proton pump inhibitors
3 Feb 12 | 11.02 | International
Women with a history of smoking may be at particular risk of hip fracture when using proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) long-term...
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Dutasteride slows cancer progression, but should not be recommended
3 Feb 12 | 10.53 | International
Dutasteride, a 5α-reductase inhibitor, can delay disease progression for patients with low-risk prostate cancer, suggests research published
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Every little bit helps
3 Feb 12 | 10.49 | England Scotland Wales
What do the new medicine service, the chronic medication service and discharge medication reviews have in common? Bit of a silly question, you may think
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Poor outcomes when thalidomide added to advanced-NSCLC therapy
3 Feb 12 | 10.48 | International
Adding thalidomide to combined chemoradiotherapy does not improve survival rates for patients diagnosed with unresectable...
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Sequential tamoxifen-anastrozole treatment trialled
3 Feb 12 | 10.44 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Relapse-free survival is not significantly improved by sequential tamoxifen and anastrazole treatment, rather than continuous tamoxifen...
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Dabigatran increases risk of acute coronary syndromes, new meta-analysis suggests
3 Feb 12 | 10.43 | International
Dabigatran increases the risk of myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) compared with standard anticoagulant therapy or placebo, suggest results of a meta-analysis
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Caffeine safe for preterm infants, but does not improve long-term outcomes
3 Feb 12 | 10.09 | International
Administration of caffeine to preterm neonates is safe, but is not associated with better long-term outcomes than placebo
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Fingolimod safety review launched
3 Feb 12 | 10.03 | EU
The unexplained death of a patient shortly after starting treatment with fingolimod has led the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use to launch a safety review
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