Requested Repost 2Nov2011 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. The poor safety profile of the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix™) makes it unsuitable for first-line use, according to a study published in the Nov. 2 edition of the journal PLoS One, an online publication of the Public Library of Science. Varenicline, which already carries a "black box warning" from…
Lab animals drown After superstorm Sandy flooded New York University's medical research laboratories, first accounts were of Herculean rescue efforts. But critics are asking whether the laboratories did everything they could - and whether they followed government guidelines - to protect the research animals. Thousands of animals, mostly mice housed in the basement of…