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Texas Finds Hope For Treating Depression: New Study Reveals A Genetic Link to Medication's Effective Genetic testing may help determine the most effective medications for depressed patients in the future. This month, the American Journal of Psychiatry published research citing patients' responses to the anti-depressant medication, Celexa, in association with certain genetic variations. The Misery of Pfizer Could Be The Joy Of Texas: Generic Drugs Are On The Rise Pfizer can't be happy. Its patent on the best-selling drug in the world, Lipitor, expires in 2011, which doesn't give the pharmaceutical giant much time to figure out how to compensate for the billions of dollars in sales that will be lost when it happens, courtesy of generic companies reproducing the medicine's active ingredients. Medications in Texas May Soon Be Given With Money-Back Guarantees Pharmaceutical companies are starting to act like a lot of other for-profit organizations by offering money-back guarantees on their drugs. Companies such as Johnson & Johnson and United Healthcare are presenting "risk-sharing" programs to governments with single-payer, universal health care systems, as well as to private health insurance companies in the United States. Texas Relates To Import Safety Issues As China Executes Its Top Food and Drug Administrator China's official Xinhua news agency announced yesterday the execution of Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, in an attempt to show the country's seriousness about cleaning up obvious problems with exporting contaminated food and drugs. Free Drug Samples in Texas A Bad Idea? "Free" is a great thing. It costs you nothing if you get something for free, right? Or does it? It the world of medicine, drug company sales reps in Dallas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas try keep sample cabinets in healthcare providers' offices well stocked with the latest medications for doctors to give out when needed. Pain, Pain Go Away: Texas Seeks A Choice Of Treatments For Chronic Pain Sufferers Chronic pain affects between 75 and 90 million Americans every year, and will disable more people than cancer and heart disease combined. Now We've Done It: Texas Fights The Overuse of Antibiotics Most of us have done it: at some point, we caught a bad cold or flu and, feeling miserable, dragged (or, if you prefer, drug) our shaking bodies into the doctor's office to beg for a prescription, believing a few pills will somehow make it all better. "Come on, Doc," we said, "Give me something. I'm under a deadline, here. My health insurance will cover it." An Aspirin A Day In Texas May Keep Cancer Away Individuals in Dallas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas who take an aspirin a day may lower the odds of colon, prostate and breast cancer if you are at high risk for those malignancies, researchers at the American Cancer Society report.