Drugs & Medications Articles

In the United States and in many other countries around the world, there sometimes just isn't enough money in the budget to buy all needed medications. Sometimes friends and families lend theirs--but this is a practice not without a downside.

The European Medicines Agency recently approved Abasria, a "new" form of long-lasting insulin that can be used by children and adults with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. But new understanding how to use insulin may be more valuable than a new product.

Every year just in the USA, the Centers for Disease Control estimate, two million people develop infections that antibiotics can no longer treat and 23,000 die. Antibiotics that used to work have stopped working because they are over prescribed.

Enough people have suffered liver damage after using or abusing acetaminophen (Tylenol) that the potential danger of using this common pain reliever when there is liver disease is well known. But acetaminophen is also dangerous in kidney disease.

The World Health Organization has declared that the Ebola virus epidemic is now an international health emergency, and the need to produce an effective and safe vaccine as soon as possible is important.

HIV cannot be cured (yet?), but the development of better, more effective treatment means many patients can now enjoy long and relatively healthy lives. This is an overview of all the different HIV medications on the market today, and what they do.

A drug-resistant form of malaria is quickly spreading through South-East Asia, a new study reveals. Unless radical action is taken immediately, the situation could worsen dramatically.

A study of 50,000 HIV-positive people shows that death rates in this population have halved since 1999, something that can be attributed to improved treatment of the virus.

Antibiotic-resistant infections are killing tens of thousands each year, and no new classes of antibiotics have been developed in over 25 years. British PM David Cameron announced a panel that will tackle this very serious threat.

Eliquis, Lixiana, and Xarelto are up and coming anticoagulants that are heavily advertised both to doctors and, in the United States, to patients. They aren't for everyone, but they are less toxic, and far easier to use, than some alternatives.