"Experimental diet pill shows promise, fewer risks"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 14 Jul 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

Keywords: Diet, dieting, lorcaserin, weight, loss, obesity

ATLANTA - An experimental diet pill helped about half the people who tried it lose some weight and...
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"Drug slows tumour growth in some breast cancers"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 06 Jul 2010

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

Keywords: breast, cancer, mammogram, BRCA1, BRCA2, olaparib, cancerous, cells

TORONTO - An experimental drug designed to attack breast cancer cells caused by a particular...
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"Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 24 Mar 2010

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

Keywords: osteoporosis, bone, Fosamax, Reclast, fracture, risk

A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs...
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"Fish oil pills show promise in preventing schizophrenia"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 02 Feb 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

Keywords: Fish, oil, salmon, psychotic, disorders, schizophrenia

Taking fish oil may help prevent schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in at-risk young...
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"Two new MS medications offer promise - and risks"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 21 Jan 2010

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (4½ stars)

Keywords: MS, multiple, sclerosis, central, nervous, system, cladribine, fingolimod

Two new experimental multiple sclerosis medications appear to reduce relapses and deterioration in...
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"Mini pump boosts heart failure survival"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 18 Nov 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (4½ stars)

Keywords: heart, pump, mini, pump, heart, failure, American, Heart, Association

ORLANDO, Fla. - For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely...
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"Study: Cholesterol drugs may improve flu survival"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 30 Oct 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

Keywords: Lipitor, flu, seasonal, flu, statins, cholesterol

A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves -- cholesterol-lowering statin...
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"A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 24 Sep 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

Keywords: HIV, aids, vaccine, third, world

Experts are calling it a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Scientists are reporting...
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"Shingles vaccine Zostavax arrives in Canada"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 22 Sep 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

Keywords: shingles, varicella, zoster, vaccine

Canadian seniors can now help protect themselves against the intensely painful condition called...
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"Actos safer for heart than Avandia, study suggests"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 18 Aug 2009

Category: Harm Stories

Rating: (4½ stars)

Keywords: Avandia, Actos, diabetes, Type, 2, diabetes

A new study has raised more red flags about Avandia, a widely-used drug for patients with Type 2...
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"Statins cut heart risks even in healthy patients"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 02 Jul 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1 star)

Keywords: statins, cholesterol

Even people who do not have high cholesterol and established heart disease could benefit from...
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"New radioactive patch appears to zap skin cancer"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 18 Jun 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

A radioactive skin patch just might become a safe and effective way to treat a form of skin cancer...
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"New male contraceptive injection appears effective"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 05 May 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

An injection for men appears to be just as effective at preventing pregnancy as the birth control...
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"New spray appears to treat premature ejaculation"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 26 Apr 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

Men who suffer from the little-discussed problem of premature ejaculation might find a solution in...
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"Single pill combining five heart drugs appears safe"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 30 Mar 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1 star)

Imagine if people at risk of heart disease could take a single pill that would contain all the...
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"Zoloft and Cipralex better than other drugs, study shows"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 28 Jan 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

LONDON -- Doctors have long assumed that most antidepressants are interchangeable.

But according...
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"Fish oil appears to help against heart failure"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 31 Aug 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

MUNICH, Germany -- Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular...
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"Drugs may slow decline in lungs of COPD patients"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 15 Aug 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

TORONTO -- Patients with COPD - a lung disease usually caused by smoking - can't be cured, but a...
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"New drug may help aggressive prostate cancer: study"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 23 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

A new prostate cancer drug could extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of the...
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"Antihistamine improves Alzheimer's symptoms"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 17 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

An allergy drug that's been used in Russia since the 1980s is showing promise in the treatment of...
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