Long Drug Course No Help for UTI in Men

Long Drug Course No Help for UTI in Men

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In fact, treatment beyond 7 days increased the likelihood of late recurrence (10.8% versus 8.4%, P<0.001) and slightly, but significantly, increased the frequency of Clostridium difficile infection, reported Dimitri Drekonja, MD, of the Minneapolis VA …
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Parkinson's patient wins lawsuit over treatment that turned him into a gay sex

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Parkinson’s patient wins lawsuit over treatment that turned him into a gay sex A French man under treatment for Parkinson's disease has been awarded 197,000 euros ($ 256,927) in damages after claiming that the drug Requip turned him into a gay sex …
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Drug Deaths Increase Steadily in Wisconsin

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Nordstrom found a shift of legal prescription drug-related deaths surpassing those involving illegal narcotics. He says deaths from the synthetic drug methadone, which is used to treat heroin addiction skyrocketed from 10 in 1999 to 118 in 2008 …
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Longer Tamoxifen Use Cuts Breast Cancer Deaths

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Some women balk at taking a preventive drug for so long, but for those at high risk of a recurrence, "this will be a convincer that they should continue," said Dr. Peter Ravdin, director of the breast cancer program at the UT Health Science Center in …
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