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HEALTH TIPS - Friday, March 23, 2007
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Japan stops prescribing tamiflu to teens
TOKYO, -- Japan is suspending the prescription of the bird
flu drug Tamiflu to teenagers after two new cases of
abnormal behavior were reported. Health officials say two
12-year-old boys jumped off the second floor of their houses
and broke their legs in February and March after taking the
influenza drug, Kyodo News Service said. Officials were
already aware of two 14-year-olds who fell to their deaths
last month. It is unclear the causal relationship between
the drug and the behavior, Kyodo said The government has
ordered Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., the Japanese distributor
for Switzerland's Roche Holding AG, to put a warning against
teenage use on the drug information sheet.
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Study simplifies pharmaceutical production
LA JOLLA, Calif., -- U.S. scientists have developed new
techniques to reduce the time, complexity and cost of
synthesizing natural products having pharmaceutical
potential. The scientists at The Scripps Research Institute
said their work dislodges previously entrenched beliefs in
the organic chemistry field about how such products must be
produced. They said their findings might advance and expand
the use of natural products in drug discovery programs.
"There is this far-ranging and damaging perception that
natural products are too complex to be used in a drug
discovery setting despite their overwhelming track record in
medicine," said project leader Phil Baran, a SRI chemist.
"I think if our work has helped in even a small way to
revive the use of natural products, then we've served our
purpose." The research by Baran and graduate students Thomas
Maimone and Jeremy Richter appears in the journal Nature.
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Morphine kills pain -- not patients
CLEVELAND, -- U.S. scientists have found the belief that
morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to
control a dying patient's pain is a misconception. Two
studies at the Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Center,
led by Professor Bassam Estfan, focused on patients in a
specialist palliative care in-patient unit. The patients,
all with severe cancer pain, were treated with morphine.
Their vital statistics were monitored before and after the
pain was controlled. Estfan reported no significant changes
were observed. He said the morphine did not cause resp-
iratory depression, the mechanism by which lethal opioid
overdose typically kills. "Unlike many other drugs, morphine
has a very wide safety margin," wrote Dr. Rob George of
University College London in a commentary on Estfan's
research. "Evidence over the last 20 years has repeatedly
shown that, used correctly, morphine is well tolerated, does
not cloud the mind, does not shorten life, and its sedating
effects wear off quickly. "Doctors should feel free to
manage pain with doses adjusted to individual patients so
that the patients can be comfortable and be able to live
with dignity until they die." The studies appear in the
journal Palliative Medicine.
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