Topic: Internal Medicine
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said Thursday it has won the first trial brought by a patient alleging its psychiatric drug Seroquel caused harm. AstraZeneca said a jury in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Jersey voted 7 to 1 in favor of the drugmaker, after deliberating for ...
You may have known that acid reflux is not as common as the common cold, but to those who are suffering from this, this disorder can be far more problematic. Most commonly, people with this disorder, suffer from recurring chest pains, heart burns and even nausea. In severe cases, this medical disorder may lead to laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (that is ...
Gastresophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a syndrome due to structural or functional incompetence of the lower esophageal sphincter, which permits retrograde flow of acidic gastric juice into the esophagus. The underlying abnormality in GERD is apparently inborn and irreversible and the incidence increases with age. In addition to reflux, most cases involve disordered gastric motility and prolonged gastric emptying time ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are taking a closer look at how well devices used by diabetics to monitor their blood sugars work, seeking possible changes for device makers to help make them more reliable. At a two-day meeting to review blood glucose meters, Food and Drug Administration officials and staff pointed to a number of issues that ...
