Emergency Medicine

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.

As a part of a recently launched campaign, women in UK will be able to get contraceptive pills online without actually seeing a doctor.

Scientists have come up with new anti-migraine drugs which follow a different approach all together, than the already existing ones, to counter this widespread problem. The new age drugs come with fewer side effects and are expected to hit the markets within three years

Health Robotics, the worldwide leader in robotic automation of patient-specific IV Admixtures has announced the IV Station (TM Pending), a new IV automation solution.

Chantix, a wonder drug for people who want to kick the butt is under attack by drug-safety groups due to its dangerous side-effects.According to US researchers hundreds of patients on Pfizer Inc's, popular quit smoking pill Chantix, reported various traffic mishaps while they were on the prescription drug.

A diet low in carbohydrates is more effective than a diet low in fat in reducing saturated fatty acids in the blood and reducing markers of inflammation, a new study unfolds.

Constant consumption of alcohol by the donor, can have adverse effects on the recipient, a new study shows.