Emergency Medicine

United States, January 5: Nut allergies are driving more and more Americans go nuts, the potential threat to their existence, as many of them have been found taking extreme measures to safeguard health of their families and friends from nuts.

New York, United States, January 5: For decades, women have been taking contraceptive pills to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy. Surprisingly, these pills are polluting the environment, and are in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano suggests.

Toronto, Canada, December 4: Canadian researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada, said on Wednesday that costly and unproved stem cell therapies for various diseases are being sold directly on the internet to patients and doctors.

Mumbai, India, November 21: Shreya Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., the Indian arm of the Moscow based Shreya Corporation, announced on Thursday the launch of world's first oral insulindefine spray, a recombinant DNA human insulin buccal spray, for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetesdefine.

Washington, November 13: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday that the clinical trials from four leading drug manufactures - Merck’s Fosamax, Roche’s Boniva, Novartis’ Reclast and Zometa, and Procter & Gamble’s Actonel - shows no clear link between taking bone drugs called bisphosphonates and a heart-rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillationdefine (AF).

Good news for people suffering from type 2 diabetesdefine! A latest study conducted by Canadian researchers suggests that people suffering from type 2 diabetes who have to take insulindefine shots twice a day will be able to keep their condition under control by taking once-a-week jab for the disease.

Gardasil, a vaccine recommended to prevent cervical cancerdefine is at the centre of attraction once again. The drug which was approved in 2006 by the Food and Drug Administration as a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16, 18, 6 and 11 has come under severe criticism as its recipients have complained of side-effects.

Voting against the notion, the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel today backed itself from the proposal to impose the black box warning – the agency's sternest warning – to the 11 epilepsy drugs being scrutinized for increased links with suicidal thoughts and behavior.

With recent evidence showing high association between epilepsy drugs and risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials will seek to include the Black box warning, the strongest alert possible, for 11 such drugs, the agency announced on Monday.

British based pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline Plc. announced on Monday that its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Cervarix would take even longer to get to the United States than it was expected.