The osteoporosis drug Fosamax has already been linked to rare bone fractures and necrosis of the jawbone, but a new study reveals a more devastating side effect. Researchers at Northwestern University found that patients taking Fosamax have an increased risk of...
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Studies Further Confirm That Actos Raises Risk Of Bladder Cancer
New studies conducted by two separate research groups have further established a connection between bladder cancer and the drug Actos. The link between Actos and cancer was first detected about 18 months ago. Follow-up studies have supported the initial findings and...
Device Helps Screen Babies For Life-Threatening Heart Defects
Congenital heart defects are responsible for between three and 7.5 percent of infant deaths. Because a heart defect diagnosis is often a life-saving discovery, scientists have been trying to improve the tools and methods available for diagnoses. One such testing...
Chiropractors’ Treatment Of The Neck Can Cause Stroke, Death
Recent studies have linked chiropractic manipulation of the neck to strokes and sudden death. The most recent study, conducted by a group of neurosurgeons, concludes that "chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine can product dissections involving the cervical...
Transvaginal Mesh Has Caused Thousands Of Women To Suffer
For many years, surgical mesh was routinely implanted in women who underwent pelvic organ prolapse (POP) or stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery. Mesh manufacturers boasted that their products were wondrous: Improving the success of surgeries while reducing...
Debate Continues On, Which Is More Deadly: Warfarin or Pradaxa?
People who are at high risk for stroke are in a difficult situation. Strokes can be deadly, and even when victims survive they often suffer from partial paralysis, speech problems or brain damage. Yet, anti-stroke medications such as warfarin and Pradaxa present...
Da Vinci system proves dangerous in the hands of some surgeons
The da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic instrument that allows surgeons to create tiny incisions in their patients. The device purportedly allows surgeons to create incisions with a level of accuracy that cannot be achieved by the traditional tools of hands and a...
Study: Electronic medical records surprisingly costly to patients
Electronic medical records have been touted as a tool to increase the quality of health care while decreasing the expense to the patient. This sensible proposition is facing an unexpected setback after a recent study published in the medical journal Health Affairs...
Study: 15 percent of surgeons have drinking problems
A successful surgeon needs steady hands and good judgment, two things not commonly associated with doctors who have drug and alcohol problems. That makes the results of a recent medical study particularly unsettling for patients across the nation....
Pfizer recalls 1 million defective birth control pill packets
In a nearly-unbelievable mistake, Pfizer has issued over 1 million packets of birth control pills that may be ineffective. The pharmaceutical firm is scrambling to recall the drugs, but many women have unknowingly been exposed to an increased risk of pregnancy. The...