Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda is scrambling to recover as its once top-selling diabetes drug, Actos, loses market share to generic versions and as Actos lawsuits continue to mount. Over the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2012, sales of Actos decreased 46.2 percent...
Victims of a catastrophic storm, such as Hurricane Sandy, have many immediate needs with food, shelter and transportation. It’s critical, though, that they not put off planning for adequate medicine supplies in the days before and after the natural disaster. Many of...
Obese people face more risks than other patients when it comes to total knee replacement (TKR) surgery and need to have revision operations more often than other patients, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Being overweight puts extra...
Pregnant women who are suffering from depression should avoid antidepressant drugs until their babies are born, two experienced doctors say in their paper published this week in the journal Human Reproduction. After reviewing an abundance of scientific data, the medical...
To ASR Hip Replacement Patients: At DePuy, our mission for more than a century has been developing products and technologies that help patients who have been impacted by pain, disability and a loss of mobility return to a more active lifestyle. If DePuy finds that one of its...