MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'drugs pharmaceuticals'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934110&cid=t_387615_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPghU4WPAWks%2F By Walter OlsonAs readers may know, I’ve been beating the drum for a while on the increasingly dangerous shortages that doctors are encountering in the availability of common, off-patent drugs used in hospital and clinical settings, including drugs that are important in chemotherapy, anesthesia, and infection control. Among the reasons for the shortages: the Food and Drug Administration has toughened its regulation of pharmaceutical makers in ways that lead to manufacturing line shutdowns and withdrawals from production. John Goodman has a must-read blog post at Health Affairs Blog on the mounting crisis, amplified by a post by George Mason economist Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, getting into further specifics. In particular: • 246 drugs are now considered to be in shortage... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934110 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:43:06 +0100 4934110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2626060&cid=t_387615_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fcounterfeit-drugs.html Digital industries continue to wage an unwinnable war against the people and organisations that illicitly copy, share, and sell their products, whether DVD rips, DRM-free music files, or pirated software. But, while arguments about lost revenues, performing rights, and the rest of it rage, at least digital copyright theft is not usually a matter of life or death. Crime syndicate conspiracy theorists would probably beg to differ, but counterfeiting and piracy in another industry – the pharmaceutical industry – most certainly can be. Many users of online file sharing systems and those who seek out the cheapest “generic” pharma products on the net, without regard to whether they are counterfeit or not, often cite the enormous profits made by the industries as some kind... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2626060 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:00:13 +0100 2626060 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1301852&cid=t_387615_87_f&fid=35060&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewsblog.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fhnblog.pl%3Fhnblog%3D310081 An Associated Press probe has found traces of pharmaceuticals in the water supply of 41 million Americans. The amounts of individual medications in the drinking water is tiny but they include a wide range of meds including antibiotics and sex hormones. A vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs - and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and... HealthNewsBlog.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1301852 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:00:00 +0100 1301852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675412&cid=t_387615_135_f&fid=35274&url=http%3A%2F%2Facidrefluxweb.com%2F%3Fp%3D880 Yesterday I spoke with a web designer referred to me by one of the co-founders of GayGuideToronto.Com. I’m having take a look the site and see what he recommends. It may be a case of having to rebuild it from the ground up so that we can get these bugs worked out. We’re pretty sure this is more than a simple case of having a wee bit of invalid code (sorry Joe). And, I’m more than happy to pay him to do this. He is nice, intelligent and very pleasant to speak to. How refreshing is that! I can’t ask friends to do anymore volunteer work on this, it’s just too much work. This has kick started me into manually saving all my posts, as I have to do this anyway.  It is interesting to see how it’s all changed over time. For one thing, no more mega long posts ... acidrefluxweb.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675412 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:02:10 +0100 675412 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=503927&cid=t_387615_113_f&fid=34831&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocinthemachine.com%2F2007%2F03%2F27%2Fvitadeath%2F Everyone is jumping on the natural product and herbal bandwagon.  What many don’t know is that all-natural is often far from all-safe.  Almost all of these producs remain highly unregulated and untested in their claims (therefore the need for the blanket disclaimers that the products are not intended to diagnose of treat any condition).  One of the problems with herbals is the huge rate of contamination with other ingredients.  This may be inadvertant such as mercury in fish oil capsules, heavy metals in herbs, or intentional such as the well-reported spiking of herbal viagra with real drug viagra.  I know a manufacturer of herbal supplements.  He used to sell electronics but now sells herbal supplements.  I think it’s a more lucrative business. Today the FDA issues a wa... docinthemachine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=503927 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:07:43 +0100 503927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471291&cid=t_387615_113_f&fid=34831&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocinthemachine.com%2F2007%2F03%2F09%2Feugeroic%2F this stuff makes crank look like candy Gizmag reports on the further evolution of no-sleep performance enhancing drugs. The original version of these substances was the “time-shifting” drug, Modafinil that enables you to stay awake for 40+ hours with close to full mental capacity and with few side effects. (produced by Cephalon as PROVIGIL®, MODIODAL® in France and VIGIL® in Germany, for excessive sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and for “shift work sleep disorder” - hear that you medical interns?- web site advertises free 7 day trial supply).   This is precisely the substance the the former chief medical director of the olympic committee spoke to me of.  He asked - once this stuff hits the street don’t you think a majority of college students would use ... docinthemachine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471291 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:30:49 +0100 471291