“Perhaps the timing caught some of you by surprise because we didn’t engage in the drama of a public horse race for succession that some of our competitors have been involved in,” Wyeth CEO and short-timer Robert Essner told analysts this morning during an earnings call. He was comparing his company’s...
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Merck’s diabetes drug Januvia has been approved by the FDA for use in combination with older diabetes medicines, but stiffer warnings have also been added to the Januvia’s label. The instructions now say allergic reactions and cases of a rare skin called Stevens-Johnson syndrome have been reported in some patients taking...
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Sex works on the principle of positive feed back: more sex just improves our ‘performance’. A team from Sydney University says that men with damaged sperm should have sex daily to increase the chances of getting their partner pregnant. In many cases, couples with fertility issues abstain from sex for several days to boost sperm...
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Obese people are six times more vulnerable to gullet (esophageal) cancer than people of average weight, as found by a recent British research. For years, doctors have said that being overweight is dangerous to your health. We have become more aware of the fact that obesity causes heart issues, hypertension, stroke and diabetes.Now...
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When exposed to a constant diet of disease-related information, it is not uncommon for medical students to develop a form of hypochondria called medical student syndrome. And though no one has coined a term for the tendency to self-diagnose rare diseases on the basis of a symptom and an Internet search, the proliferation of...
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