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Diabetes in college students linked to depression and distress

Diabetes mellitus affects about 10% of the population, and predisposes the affected individual to a host of complications. Thus these patients need to follow a regulated lifestyle, including regular exercise, a low-sugar diet, regular and appropriate use of diabetes medication, self-testing for glucose levels and adjusting medication if used, and scheduled or necessary follow-up with a healthcare provider.

27 Aug 2019

Needle stick injuries are common and can transmit many blood-borne pathogens

Needle stick injuries (NSIs) can transmit more than 20 blood-borne pathogens, including HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and, more rarely, malaria, human T cell leukemia virus and Ebola.

25 Aug 2019

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

Jason was hallucinating. He was withdrawing from drugs at an addiction treatment center near Indianapolis, and he had hardly slept for several days.

23 Aug 2019

Researchers create synthetic biologic system to deliver medicine, treat wounds for soldiers

For the first time, scientists built a synthetic biologic system with compartments like real cells. This Army project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could lead to materials that provide new avenues to deliver medicine, treat wounds and purify water for Soldiers.

23 Aug 2019

Among hurdles for those with opioid addictions: Getting the drug to treat it

Louis Morano knew what he needed, and he knew where to get it. He made his way to a mobile medical clinic parked on a corner of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, in the geographical heart of the city's overdose crisis. People call it "the bupe bus."

16 Aug 2019

Florida is the latest Republican-led state to adopt clean needle exchanges

A green van was parked on the edge of downtown Miami, on a corner shadowed by overpasses. The vehicle serves as a mobile health clinic and syringe exchange, where people who inject drugs like heroin and fentanyl could swap dirty needles for fresh ones.

2 Jul 2019

ANCON Medical discusses how NBT technology is better at providing accurate cancer diagnosis

Cancers cells now have a powerful adversary called 'magnetic hyperthermia' and it consists of clusters of magnetic nanoparticles.

1 Jul 2019

Join Us For testXpo- International Forum for Materials Testing This Fall!

ZwickRoell is pleased to invite you to the premier event in materials testing for the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Join us this October 14-17 in Germany for the 28th international testXpo at ZwickRoell Headquarters in Ulm.

5 Jun 2019

ZwickRoell to showcase innovative solutions at Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast Conference

ZwickRoell will exhibit at the upcoming Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast Conference, June 3-4, at the Crowne Plaza San Diego in Mission Valley, CA, USA.

29 May 2019

New project involves understanding link between opioid crisis and cancer

Jennifer Havens, Ph.D., professor of behavioral science in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, faculty member in the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and member of the team awarded $87 million through the National Institutes of Health's HEALing Communities study, has spent the past decade studying the transmission of infectious disease and advocating for the expansion of harm reduction programs.

20 May 2019

UA College partners with Space Tango to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix are partnering with Space Tango, a private aerospace company that designs, builds and operates facilities on the International Space Station, to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space.

26 Apr 2019

Studies verify novel method of HIV transmission among injection drug users and effective prevention

New studies from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University have found for the first time that HIV can be transmitted through the sharing of equipment used to prepare drugs before injection and that a simple intervention - heating the equipment with a cigarette lighter for 10 seconds - can destroy the HIV virus, preventing that transmission.

26 Apr 2019

Researchers find out barriers to obtaining clean needles and needle exchange

Acute hepatitis C infections rose 98 percent between 2010 and 2015 nationwide, largely because more people were injecting drugs.

26 Apr 2019

New study reveals five facts about allergies to vaccines

There is little chance you are actually allergic to vaccines and, if you are, your allergist can give it to you. Only one in 760,000 vaccinations will respond with anaphylaxis. For all other side effects, there are ways around any problem.

8 Apr 2019

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

The United States faces a converging public health crisis as the nation's opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of certain infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections.

4 Apr 2019

Probing Submicron Protein Aggregation using Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation, AF4, and Light Scattering

The most recent developments by Wyatt in their instrumentation and software have made the full potential of FFF accessible to a wider user base. In this interview, Kim R. Williams and Christoph Johann talk to News-Medical and Life Sciences about the technologies and their research.

From Waters | Wyatt Technology 27 Mar 2019

11th IAS Conference on HIV Science to take place at Messe Berlin in 2021

Berlin is the host city of the 11th IAS Conference on HIV Science, the International AIDS Society announced today. The city hosted the 9th International AIDS Conference in 1993, but this is the first time that it will host the IAS Conference on HIV Science.

28 Feb 2019

Syringe News and Research

Diabetes in college students linked to depression and distress

Needle stick injuries are common and can transmit many blood-borne pathogens

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

Researchers create synthetic biologic system to deliver medicine, treat wounds for soldiers

Among hurdles for those with opioid addictions: Getting the drug to treat it

Florida is the latest Republican-led state to adopt clean needle exchanges

ANCON Medical discusses how NBT technology is better at providing accurate cancer diagnosis

Join Us For testXpo- International Forum for Materials Testing This Fall!

ZwickRoell to showcase innovative solutions at Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast Conference

New project involves understanding link between opioid crisis and cancer

UA College partners with Space Tango to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space

Studies verify novel method of HIV transmission among injection drug users and effective prevention

Researchers find out barriers to obtaining clean needles and needle exchange

New study reveals five facts about allergies to vaccines

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

Probing Submicron Protein Aggregation using Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation, AF4, and Light Scattering

11th IAS Conference on HIV Science to take place at Messe Berlin in 2021

Newly developed probe looks, acts, and feels so much like real neuron

New study identifies many key lessons to establish sanctioned safe consumption sites

Trump pledges to end HIV transmission by 2030. Doable, but daunting.

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