According to recent research, nearly nine out of 10 clients decide to substitute common brand name drugs by their generic versions within a few weeks of when these cheapest drugs become obtainable.

According to research, only about a quarter of larger maternity units in Autralia use pain relief for painful procedures such as blood taking or making injections to newborn babies..

A group of neonatologists - Peter Gray and his colleagues examined 212 Australian hospitals in which 200 or more babies a year are delivered about their knowledge and use of techniques that bring pain-relief for minor procedures in infants born at term or near term.

Almost a half of the medical prescriptions in the USA are of generic drugs. Yet, the safety and reliability on generic drugs vis-a-vis the brand-name drugs have been considerably discussed.

Before getting into the merits of the case, it is necessary to find out a little about generic drugs. When a pharmaceutical company brings out a drug, that company is the only one that may produce the drug in the same country for a fixed number of years.

A group of scientists concludes that obese and overweight women have more pregnancy complications than women with normal weight. At birth, babies of overweight and obese mothers are more prone to have medical problems.

According to Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio, this month two children underwent a domino heart transplant surgery - an exceptionally rare operation, which was a historical moment for medicine.

Due to the results of a research of middle-aged men, seen at two Veterans Administration facilities, smoking cannabis can increase a risk of bladder cancer.

A group of scientists of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Dr. Martha K. Terris and her team announced in the medical journal Urology that smoking cannabis “might be an even more potent stimulant” of malignancy than smoking cigarettes.

According to research at Washington University in St. Louis, a two-drug treatment may some day help with restoring healthy breathing in people ill with asthma and chronic bronchitis.

Dr Michael Holtzman and other researchers discovered that some lining cells from the lungs air passages are able to change into another cell type, which leads to the overproduction of mucus in the airways. It was observed in mice and patients suffering from those disorders.

Patients ill with cancer do not receive treatment with vital drugs only because of the fact they have not enough money for the prescription charges - campaigners warns.

According to Charity Breast Cancer Care, 42% of breast cancer patients, which is almost a half, had financial problems as they were forced to pay prescriptions charges for their medicine.

If somebody wants to relax for up to a week, e.g. before any stressful occasion such as public speaking, having sex may be a good idea. An international tennis player enjoyed doing it even minutes before the match. It is also said that a couple of Olympians decided to stop having sex in the nights before competitions.

Patients ill with cancer do not receive treatment with vital drugs only because of the fact they have not enough money for the prescription charges - campaigners warns.

According to Charity Breast Cancer Care, 42% of breast cancer patients, which is almost a half, had financial problems as they were forced to pay prescriptions charges for their medicine.