A New Pill for Jet Lag? (Time Magazine)

Drug companies are rushing to manufacture analogs to melatonin -- the all-natural jet-lag-busting supplement. Are they worth it?

FDA: Novartis malaria pill shows superior results (San Francisco Chronicle)

Federal regulators said Monday a combination drug from Novartis to treat malaria works better than older drugs already on the market. The Swiss drugmaker has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its Coartem pill for malaria, including the most...

Can HIV Infection Be Prevented with a Once-Daily Pill? (Scientific American)

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--Nearly four years after political pressure shut down two trials that would have tested whether a once-a-day pill could prevent high-risk HIV-negative people from catching the AIDS-causing virus, there?s a surge of renewed interest in the concept, known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP. Western doctors and organizations that funded the halted trials of the ...

FDA: Novartis malaria pill shows superior results (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Federal regulators said Monday a combination drug from Novartis to treat malaria works better than older drugs already on the market. The Swiss drugmaker has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its Coartem pill for malaria, including the most virulent strains of the disease. The drug is already used in 83 countries worldwide. The FDA posted its review of Coartem online ahead ...

New sleeping pill could be the answer to jet lag (News-Medical-Net)

An experimental drug developed by Australian scientists could offer a new cure for jet lag and be a welcome alternative to addictive sedatives such as benzodiazepines.

FDA: Novartis malaria pill shows superior results (AP via Yahoo! News)

Federal regulators said Monday a combination drug from Novartis to treat malaria works better than older drugs already on the market.

Calcium and vitamin D may not be the only protection against bone loss (EurekAlert!)

( The Endocrine Society ) Diets that are high in protein and cereal grains produce an excess of acid in the body which may increase calcium excretion and weaken bones, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study found that increasing the alkali content of the diet, with a pill or through a diet rich in ...

Calcium and Vitamin D May Not Be the Only Protection Against Bone Loss (Newswise)

Diets that are high in protein and cereal grains produce an excess of acid in the body which may increase calcium excretion and weaken bones, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study found that increasing the alkali content of the diet, with a pill or through a diet rich in fruits and vegetables has the opposite effect.

Who can put a value on a life' They can HEALTH CARE: British agency balances potential gain against drugs' costs (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

When Bruce Hardy's kidney cancer spread to his lung, his doctor recommended an expensive new pill from Pfizer. But Hardy is British, and the British health authorities refused to buy the medicine. His wife has been distraught.

A scare forever etched (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

This happened in the 1960s, when I was a young doctor, a fellow in thoracic surgery at a Boston hospital. My patient was 2 years old, a beautiful boy, a Van Gogh sunflower, yellow hair, blue eyes, alert and tranquil despite the near-fatal accident that had put him in the hospital. His father, a physician, had given him an aspirin. The pill, perhaps too large for his age, had lodged in his ...

Poison Pill

President Bush did the best he could for John McCain during the presidential race, mostly by keeping a very low public profile while sending Predators and Reapers into Waziristan to zap the unwary terrorist.

Barclays may continue Sark fight

The billionaire Barclay brothers may continue their fight over electoral reform on the Channel Island of Sark.

Don't believe this myth about the Pill

My boyfriend and I had a pregnancy scare last month and it's made me think about getting on the pill.

Sean Penn mesmerizes in Gus Van Sant's tale Milk

Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, himself, and no one else.

TiVo Guilt? Don't They Have A Pill For That?

CNN had an amusing fluff piece on TiVo today - well, I found it amusing anyway. It was about 'TiVo guilt' - which is the feeling some users apparently suffer from when they have a backlog of recordings on their ...

Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier

Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests.

Sark under new pressure to end feudal system

The Channel island of Sark has come under renewed pressure to scrap one of the last vestiges of its feudal system after the Court of Appeal ruled that its new constitution breached human rights laws.

A New Pill for Jet Lag?

Is there a medical condition more emblematic of the modern age than jet lag? Dislocated and deadened, the sleep-starved traveler wanders through meetings or tourist sites in a somnambulant haze.

Down Stethescope Row with Dr. Seuss

Books and Poetry , posted by Diana deRegnier, a resident of another community, 50 minutes ago Diana deRegnier is a member of Pacific Sun Dr.

The Pill That Makes Jet Lag Vanish

An experimental drug promises to reset the body's internal clock and banish jet lag victims for good.