medicines

(Academy of Finland) Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time.

Fruit juices may not be as healthy as thought - they could reduce the effectiveness of some medicines, it is claimed.

People often take their medicines wrongly - including one man who sprayed his asthma inhaler on his cat.

Scientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the world....

CHICAGO (AP) -- American children take anti-psychotic medicines at about six times the rate of children in the United Kingdom, according to a comparison based on a new U.K. study....

Researchers from the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Granada state that the plant can also be used for antimigraine drugs.Another wild plant growing in the Bolivian Andes, the "Baccharis latifolia," has also been used to this end.

The risks of increasing people's access to over-the-counter medicines may outweigh the benefits, warn experts in this week’s BMJ.

Heart attack survivors aged 65 and older may live longer if they take prescribed cardiovascular drugs, new research shows.

The Washington area's drinking water contains trace amounts of six commonly used drugs that typically turn up in wastewater and cannot be filtered out by most treatment systems.

The US Pharmacopeial Convention and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the purpose of working together to strengthen the quality of medicines and foods in the United States and China.