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Title: Drug Tests Often Trigger False Positives Category: Health News Created: 6/1/2010 11:46:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 6/1/2010 11:46:23 AM

A Bellefontaine woman is among thousands of women suing a drug maker for allegedly causing their breast cancer. Get the details.

Women should be aware that antidepressants, including the SSRIs Paxil (paroxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline), as well as Wellbutrin and Zyban (bupropion), have been linked to serious birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, and are being treated with one of these drugs, you should talk to your doctor […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 2 (UPI) — Seniors who take a type of antidepressants may have increased risk of developing cataracts, a researcher in Canada suggests.

In the first study of its kind, researchers discover a link between a mother’s use of ovulation-inducing drugs to treat infertility and the risk of autism in her children

Drug name mix-ups kill or maim thousands each year in the U.S. About 1,500 drugs have names that sound so similar that they’re confused with other medicines, says a 2008 report by U.S. Pharmacopeia.

Psychotropic drugs are big business: in 2009, roughly 300,000,000 prescriptions were written for these agents. Duff Wilson of The New York Times recently reported that the newer generation of antipsychotics has become the countrys best selling medicationseclipsing even cholesterol-lowering agents.

Readers wrote in with stories of the trouble with drug names that sound too similar; here are some of the best submissions.

Levitra, Viagra allowed anti-cancer medication to more easily penetrate brain barrier, study found.

Study Including All Seven Major Subpopulations With High Prevalence for Hypertension Showed Significant Benefit in Switching Patients From Monotherapy to a Fixed-Dose Combination Therapy