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Benefits include improved drug efficiency, reduced pill burden, and lower dosage frequency The limited efficacy and negative side-effects associated with current therapeutics for Hepatitis B and C are highlighting the urgent need for new, improved alternatives. Combination therapies offering better clinical outcomes are coming to the fore and look set to transform the European market for Hepatitis B and C. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.lifesciences.frost.com), Analysis of European Hepatitis B and C Therapeutics Markets, finds that the Hepatitis B market earned revenues of $1.26B in 2012 and estimates this to reach $1.89B in 2019, while the Hepatitis C market is projected to expand from $2.40B to $3.66B over the same time period. The therapeutic segments covered include interferons and nucleoside analogues for Hepatitis B, and Standard of Care (Peginterferon alfa and Ribavirin) and protease inhibitors for Hepatitis C. The side effects associated with interferon-based therapeutics such as fever, headache, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, shivering, and the ineffective response to Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) genotype 1 patients are motivating the development of combination therapies. Improved drug efficiency, reduced pill burden and lower dosage frequency are among the common advantages related to the use of combination drugs, notes Frost … Continue reading →

by Christine LaCroix azfamily.com Posted on April 30, 2013 at 11:47 PM Updated today at 12:00 AM PHOENIX -- A prescription drug has users hoping for quick and easy weight loss, and for many it works, but not without some dangerous side effects. Its like doing meth, essentially, said Dr. Michael Yasinski, a Valley psychiatrist, referring to people who use the drug Adderall without a prescription. Adderall is the brand-name prescription drug successfully used to treat people who suffer from ADHA. Yasinksi said he is seeing more patients using Adderall to lose weight, even though they do not have a prescription and might not know how much to take, putting them at risk for serious health complications. It works very well. It takes away your appetite, makes you lose weight, speeds up your metabolism, he said. But it also raises your heart rate and your blood pressure. Yasinski said Adderall is widely prescribed, and it is easy for dieters without a prescription to buy pills from friends. It is essentially turning these kids into little drug dealers, he said. Dieters looking to lose weight from Adderall are also getting younger. What used to be a trend in college-age and above … Continue reading →

Rochester, NY (PRWEB) April 30, 2013 Tremor, visual and auditory hallucinations, confusion and coma are neuropsychiatric side effects, and all have been associated with the use of Valacyclovir (Valtrex). (2) Valacyclovir is an antiviral drug. It slows the growth and spread of the herpes virus so that the body can fight off the infection. (3) It is also the most popular drug prescribed against Genital Herpes infection due to its ease of administration. (1) However, problems with brain function are just the tip of the iceberg. Drugs.com reports a laundry list of Valtrex side effects, including Gastrointestinal side effects (that) have included nausea (up to 15% of users), abdominal pain (up to 11% of users), and vomiting (up to 6% of users). (4) Ive never been able to understand why someone would take a drug to get rid of an annoying symptom, and in return get a potentially life-threatening symptom. Mike Davis, polyDNA In light of the many potential side effects associated with Valtrex, polyDNA recommends Gene-Eden-VIR against the latent herpes virus. Valtrex is a chemical drug, in contrast, Gene-Eden-VIR is a natural herpes remedy that has no reported side effects. In a post marketing clinical study, Gene-Eden-VIR was shown … Continue reading →

Police have asked Blenheim shops to stop selling legal highs ANNA WILLIAMS Nicole Gourley Damian Mair smokes a mixture of legal highs from a bong outside an Invercargill shop as protestors line up. He says he prefers to get stoned because it's his responsible option, if he drinks he gets into trouble with the law. Synthetic drugs are causing psychosis in users who are ending up in hospital suffering from side effects similar to someone using "P", police and hospital emergency staff say. Wairau Hospital emergency department clinical head Andrew Morgan said his team had seen a growing number of patients during the past four months who had been smoking synthetic cannabis. While it was difficult to monitor who had smoked the drug, about one person turned up in the emergency department every week, he said. In the most serious cases he had seen, patients suffered from paranoid delusions, similar to people who had used methamphetamines, known as P. "They often get anxious, or are on very high alert," Dr Morgan said. "You sometimes get it with P. When people are coming off P, they think people are out to get them. It's a little bit like that." The majority … Continue reading →

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The Firm is currently investigating Pradaxa lawsuits on behalf of individuals who suffered life-threatening internal bleeding, allegedly due to Pradaxa side effects. New York, New York (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 We continue to hear from Pradaxa users who have allegedly suffered serious and life-threatening episodes of internal bleeding. In light of the allegations put forth in Pradaxa lawsuits, news of the drugs blockbuster status is concerning. It is important that patients being considered for Pradaxa therapy be fully apprised of the risks associated with its use, says Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationwide law firm representing victims of defective drugs and medical devices. The Firm is currently offering free legal evaluations to victims of alleged Pradaxa side effects. Pradaxa Side Effects Pradaxa was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2010 to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation. While Pradaxa was touted as an improvement over decades-old warfarin, Bloomberg.com recently reported that regulators in several countries have issued Pradaxa side effect alerts since the drug was first brought to market. Most concerning is the fact that there exists no readily-available antidote for the internal bleeding that can sometimes occur in patients treated with Pradaxa. In 2011 … Continue reading →

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 The drug safety advocates at DrugRisk.com are alerting patients taking the blood thinner Pradaxa of updated legal news on the site. A federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits alleging Pradaxa internal bleeding has asked lawyers to prepare a small number of cases for evidence gathering and early test trials. The goal of DrugRisk is to improve patient safety by sharing the latest warnings, recalls, studies and legal news related to prescription drugs. Visitors can see if others are experiencing similar side effects and if legal action is under way. Pradaxa was launched in 2010 to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation. Experts, however, have disagreed over whether it presents dangerous risks for internal bleeding. The FDA recently advised that Pradaxa is no more dangerous than traditional blood thinner warfarin*. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, however, warned that patients suffering Pradaxa bleeding are nearly 5 times as likely to die than those with bleeding from warfarin. They also named anticoagulants like Pradaxa among the most dangerous drugs**. With over 260 patients so far having filed a Pradaxa lawsuit alleging internal bleeding, cases have been consolidated to a special federal court in Illinois. The … Continue reading →

| credits: A new treatment for difficult-to-treat hepatitis C has higher cure rates, takes less time and causes fewer side effects than the current therapy, new research finds. When the new drug, sofosbuvir, is combined with the medication ribavirin, cure rates are as high as traditional therapy, which pairs ribavirin and pegylated interferon, the researchers say. But patients taking sofosbuvir a once-a-day pill are spared the severe side effects associated with interferon. This is an exciting time in which we are witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we treat hepatitis C, said researcher Dr. Ira Jacobson, chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Many people with hepatitis C cant or wont use interferon, Jacobson said. Its side effects can include sleep problems, anxiety, irritability and depression as well as fatigue, headaches, fever and muscle aches. Hepatitis C is a virus spread by infected blood during transfusions, injection drug use or sexual contact. Untreated hepatitis C can cause progressive liver disease, such as cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. In one of two new studies involving sofosbuvir, researchers treated patients who hadnt responded to interferon treatment or couldnt … Continue reading →

Antiretroviral drugs are vital for those trying to keep HIV and AIDS at bay, but the psychedelic side effects of one common drug might take some users by surprise. Efavirenz, a drug that is usually used in conjunction with other drugs as a cocktail to fight type one HIV (HIV-1), has a range of side effects that includes feelings of terror, severedepression, paranoia, psychosis and delusional hallucinations. Much to the surprise of researchers investigating these side effects, it turns out that efevirenz has a similar effect on the brain as lysergic acid diethylamide -- known to most as LSD. The recreational side effects of efavirenz are not something new -- for years in South Africa people have been smoking crushed efavirenz pills(sometimes with marijuana or other drugs) for an easy high in a mixture known as "wunga". A terrible side effect of this is that, in a country where 17.8 percent of adults are carrying the HIV virus (the fourth-highest rate in the world), people are training their bodies to be immune to antiretroviral drugs. The psychedelic side effects of efavirenz are also seen in people who take it as medically prescribed, however, with some people developing adverse psychiatric conditions … Continue reading →