Today in London the FDA decided to postpone approval of a new experimental heart drug, seeking more information about the new product. The drug called Certriad, combines AstraZeneca’s blockbuster cholesterol pill Crestor with Abbott Laboratories TriLipix. According to Rueters, The manufacturers said on Tuesday they had received a so-called “complete response letter” from the U.S. [...]

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Sir James Black, a leader and pioneer in heart medicine died Sunday at the age of 85. Black was a Nobel piece prize pharmacologist who’s breakthrough work saved a countless number of lives. Sir James’s was responsible for the discovery of the drugs propranolol and pronethalol — which work by blocking the body’s own response [...]

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As some may know all too well, allergy season is about to hit full swing. Instead of sniffling and sneezing your way through the season, lets take a look at some types of medications that may help remedy your allergy problem. The 2 different types of allergy medications we will look at are antihistamines and [...]

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We came across these interesting promotional materials (click the image to enlarge) for Viagra today, so we thought we’d share them. Even though the party blowers mark Viagra’s 11th birthday, by our calculations the drug turns 12 on March 27, 2010 — the anniversary of its FDA approval. What medication are you looking for? Find [...]

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One of our local Bulverde, Texas Firefighters, Ruben Smith has a two year old son Reid Smith who is fighting stage 3 kidney cancer. They are not able to remove his kidney as the other kidney is too weak, so they are starting chemo therapy. Ruben and his family will have many out-of-pocket, co-pays and [...]

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