There are many prescription drugs that women should avoid while they are pregnant or breastfeeding. But many women need to take a medication while pregnant or breastfeeding and the labeling system currently in use is decades old and, worse, it is confusing.
Novo Nordisk will be promoting its newly approved anti-obesity drug Saxenda heavily in the United States. One sixth of its 3,000-person sales force will be meeting with physicians to sell them on the new product when it launches in the first half of 2015.
It’s almost New Year’s Eve, and we basically know what it means: all types of alcohol come a-pourin’. But before you get too excited, drink a lot, and suffer from hangover, learn how these types of alcohol can affect your body and what to do about it.
The pain, nausea, fatigue, and general lousy feeling that are the after-effects of too much booze has such a long history that you would think someone would have come up with a cure for a hangover by now. No one has.
One class of pain relievers may reduce the risk of one type of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, when taken by mouth. When researchers reviewed data from nine studies they found that these drugs may reduce the risk of squamous cell carcinoma by 18%.
Educated people who have completed a university degree and find themselves struggling to remember things can signal that they are at risk for suffering from memory loss and even stroke.
