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Cannabis use disorder more common in adults with pain

A new study published in the journal American Journal of Psychiatry reports that the use of cannabis for non-medical indications is much more common in adults who have pain than in others. This includes those who use marijuana very often or heavily enough to be considered to have a problem with dependence.

22 Jan 2020

Study provides key insights on potential origins of coronavirus outbreak in China

Emerging viral infections--from bird flu to Ebola to Zika infections--pose major threats to global public health, and understanding their origins can help investigators design defensive strategies against future outbreaks.

22 Jan 2020

Understanding the use of health technology assessment across the globe

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR- the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles investigating the use of health technology assessment in healthcare decision making across the globe.

22 Jan 2020

Collaboration reveals promising therapeutic strategy for osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis affects 240 million people worldwide and is one of the most common causes of disability in both humans and animals.

22 Jan 2020

Finding opens door to early identification of individuals at risk for delirium complications

Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified blood-based biomarkers associated with both delirium duration and severity in critically ill patients. This finding opens the door to easy, early identification of individuals at risk for longer delirium duration and higher delirium severity and could potentially lead to new treatments of this brain failure for which drugs have been shown to be largely ineffective.

22 Jan 2020

Study explores ways to stop cell death, induce regeneration to restore vision

Progress in research and technology is giving rise to an optimistic future for compensation and restoration of low vision, according to research in a special issue of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, published by IOS Press.

22 Jan 2020

New technology repairs neuronal damage in an animal model of major motor nerve injury

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created a biodegradable, implantable tube or “nerve guide” that can repair damage to major nerves in cases of traumatic injury.

22 Jan 2020

Study sheds light on mechanisms that underlie a rare genetic condition

A team of researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal has shed light on the mechanisms that underlie a rare genetic condition by creating the first cellular model of the disease.

22 Jan 2020

Researchers identify new protein that shows promise for treating atherosclerosis

Foxtail millet is an annual grass grown widely as a cereal crop in parts of India, China and Southeast Asia. Milling the grain removes the hard outer layer, or bran, from the rest of the seed.

22 Jan 2020

Research paves the way to improved treatment for complex blood disorders

Nearly 1.6 billion people worldwide suffer from anemia, and for the first time new research points to how resistance emerges to the drug dexamethasone used to treat the devastating inherited form of anemia known as Diamond Blackfan anemia.

22 Jan 2020

Injecting nanoparticles into the bloodstream to reduce brain swelling after traumatic brain injury

After a traumatic brain injury, the most harmful damage is caused by secondary swelling of the brain compressed inside the skull. There is no treatment for this.

22 Jan 2020

A new book on antioxidant foods that prevent or treat chronic diseases

A search using medical data bases reveals that hundreds of meta-analysis papers conducted with tens of millions of people worldwide have confirmed clinically the efficacies of thirty antioxidant-rich foods to prevent or treat chronic diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, chronic kidney disease, cancer, and more.

22 Jan 2020

Potential Parkinson's treatment effectively targets a specific group of brain cells

Scientists have discovered that a non-invasive technique which could one day be used to treat Parkinson's disease, can successfully target a highly specific group of brain cells which play a key role in development of the condition.

22 Jan 2020

New method determines the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly, accurately

Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must first determine their structure and stereochemistry.

21 Jan 2020

New strain of coronavirus sparks concerns of a wider outbreak throughout China

Reports of a new strain of coronavirus causing pneumonia-like symptoms in the central Chinese city of Wuhan have sparked concerns of a wider outbreak throughout China and possibly in other countries.

21 Jan 2020

Circadian clock genes are involved in healing from surgery, study shows

If you have just had knee, shoulder or hip surgery, you may want to take anti-inflammatories in the morning or at noon, but not at night.

21 Jan 2020

'Innovative Research Award' helps CU scientists to explore BRAF inhibition resistance in brain cancer

Cancers used to be defined by where they grow in the body - lung cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, etc. But work in recent decades has shown that cancers sharing specific genetic changes may have more in common than cancers that happen to grow in an area of the body.

21 Jan 2020

Increasing opioid addiction in the US but young addicts being missed

Opioid addiction has been increasing over the last decade or so in the US, with many deaths occurring as a result of opioid overdose. As a result, many programs have been set up to deal with this addiction using medications like buprenorphine. This is one of the three approved drugs that are used for this condition, and the most useful one.

21 Jan 2020

Research team identifies new roles for Huntington's Disease protein

A Duke University research team has identified a new function of a gene called huntingtin, a mutation of which underlies the progressive neurodegenerative disorder known as Huntington's Disease.

21 Jan 2020

Powerful combination of experimental drugs reverses osteoarthritis in rats

People with osteoarthritis, or "wear and tear" arthritis, have limited treatment options: pain relievers or joint replacement surgery.

21 Jan 2020

Drugs News and Research

Cannabis use disorder more common in adults with pain

Study provides key insights on potential origins of coronavirus outbreak in China

Understanding the use of health technology assessment across the globe

Collaboration reveals promising therapeutic strategy for osteoarthritis

Finding opens door to early identification of individuals at risk for delirium complications

Study explores ways to stop cell death, induce regeneration to restore vision

New technology repairs neuronal damage in an animal model of major motor nerve injury

Study sheds light on mechanisms that underlie a rare genetic condition

Researchers identify new protein that shows promise for treating atherosclerosis

Research paves the way to improved treatment for complex blood disorders

Injecting nanoparticles into the bloodstream to reduce brain swelling after traumatic brain injury

A new book on antioxidant foods that prevent or treat chronic diseases

Potential Parkinson's treatment effectively targets a specific group of brain cells

New method determines the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly, accurately

New strain of coronavirus sparks concerns of a wider outbreak throughout China

Circadian clock genes are involved in healing from surgery, study shows

'Innovative Research Award' helps CU scientists to explore BRAF inhibition resistance in brain cancer

Increasing opioid addiction in the US but young addicts being missed

Research team identifies new roles for Huntington's Disease protein

Powerful combination of experimental drugs reverses osteoarthritis in rats

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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