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Large prevention trial launched for people exposed to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

A large clinical trial to assess treatments for preventing people at high risk from developing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has begun.

25 Jun 2019

San Francisco set to ban sales of e-cigarettes

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is slated to vote Tuesday to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes in the city. The city is the corporate home of Juul Labs, the biggest producer of e-cigarettes in the country.

25 Jun 2019

Cannabis ingredient shows promise as potential antibiotic for superbugs

Researches at the University of Queensland in Australia have discovered that a topical formulation containing cannabidiol (CBD) is effective at killing bacterial skin infections.

25 Jun 2019

Coffee may boost weight loss, concludes study

Coffee has been shown to increase the release of heat from brown fat, potentially boosting weight loss efforts.

25 Jun 2019

Making Bacterial Infections a Thing of the Past for Chronic Respiratory Conditions

In this interview, Prof. Elborn and Dr. Dixon discuss the issues involving chronic lung conditions such as cystic fibrosis and bacterial respiratory infections.

From Neem Biotech 25 Jun 2019

In secret, seniors discuss ‘rational suicide’

Ten residents slipped away from their retirement community one Sunday afternoon for a covert meeting in a grocery store cafe. They aimed to answer a taboo question: When they feel they have lived long enough, how can they carry out their own swift and peaceful death?

25 Jun 2019

Atomwise and Enamine launch 10 billion compound virtual drug screening initiative

Atomwise, Inc. today announced the launch of a 10 billion compound AI-powered virtual drug screening initiative, the 10-to-the-10 program, in collaboration with Enamine Ltd., the world’s largest chemical supplier.

25 Jun 2019

PhoreMost and C4XD sign neurodegeneration drug discovery collaboration agreement

PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, and C4X Discovery Holdings plc, a pioneering drug discovery company, today announced they have signed a neurodegeneration drug discovery collaboration agreement.

From PhoreMost 25 Jun 2019

Cholesterol-lowering drugs could increase risk of developing diabetes

A study of thousands of patients' health records found that those who were prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins had at least double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

25 Jun 2019

Researchers identify missing link between amyloid plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer's

Years before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear, two kinds of damaging proteins silently collect in the brain: amyloid beta and tau. Clumps of amyloid accumulate first, but tau is particularly noxious.

25 Jun 2019

Food allergy caused by absence of beneficial bacteria in the gut

A study by scientists at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, published today in Nature Medicine, makes a strong case that the national epidemic of food allergy is caused by the absence of certain beneficial bacteria in the human gut.

25 Jun 2019

Family Doctors play key role in imparting health education on advanced therapies

A recent study conducted jointly by the Tissue Engineering Research Group of the Department of Histology and the Family Medicine Unit of the University of Granada has highlighted the conceptual, attitudinal, and procedural profile of resident hospital doctors specializing in Family Medicine, in relation to the so-called advanced therapies.

25 Jun 2019

Study emphasizes need for prioritizing nutrition care for home health patients

New research from Advocate Health Care and Abbott found that prioritizing nutrition care for home health patients at risk for malnutrition had a dramatic impact on helping keep them out of the hospital - resulting in millions of dollars in healthcare cost savings.

24 Jun 2019

Study: Nearly one-third of Cambodians are infected with threadworm

Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world.

From PLOS ONE 24 Jun 2019

Natural antibiotic made by Tübingen researchers interacts with human defense mechanisms

The natural antibiotic Lugdunin, discovered three years ago by Tübingen researchers, attacks pathogenic bacteria in several different ways simultaneously.

24 Jun 2019

Meth in the morning, heroin at night: Inside the seesaw struggle of dual addiction

In the 25 years since she snorted her first line of meth at a club in San Francisco, Kim has redefined "normal" so many times. At first, she said, it seemed like meth brought her back to her true self — the person she was before her parents divorced, and before her stepfather moved in.

24 Jun 2019

Oral steroid use in patients with inflammatory diseases increases risk of infection

Oral steroid use in patients with the inflammatory diseases polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis significantly increased the risk of infection, and the risk increased with higher doses, found a study in CMAJ.

24 Jun 2019

Unregulated pharmacy benefit manager practices may contribute to escalating expenses

Efforts to control health care costs in the United States often focus on the listed prescription drug prices, but a perspective published by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that unregulated pharmacy benefit manager practices also may contribute to escalating expenses.

24 Jun 2019

New chemoimmunotherapy regimen for aggressive form of lymphoma gets FDA approval

A cancer therapy based on the work of Ben Seon, PhD, at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for patients with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

24 Jun 2019

Study identifies proteins that interact with processes regulating gene p53

Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have discovered that the loss of a protein called DBC1 in breast cancer cells leads to the dysregulation of normal anti-cancer functions, contributing to cancer cell growth and resistance to therapies.

24 Jun 2019

Drugs News and Research

Large prevention trial launched for people exposed to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

San Francisco set to ban sales of e-cigarettes

Cannabis ingredient shows promise as potential antibiotic for superbugs

Coffee may boost weight loss, concludes study

Making Bacterial Infections a Thing of the Past for Chronic Respiratory Conditions

In secret, seniors discuss ‘rational suicide’

Atomwise and Enamine launch 10 billion compound virtual drug screening initiative

PhoreMost and C4XD sign neurodegeneration drug discovery collaboration agreement

Cholesterol-lowering drugs could increase risk of developing diabetes

Researchers identify missing link between amyloid plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer's

Food allergy caused by absence of beneficial bacteria in the gut

Family Doctors play key role in imparting health education on advanced therapies

Study emphasizes need for prioritizing nutrition care for home health patients

Study: Nearly one-third of Cambodians are infected with threadworm

Natural antibiotic made by Tübingen researchers interacts with human defense mechanisms

Meth in the morning, heroin at night: Inside the seesaw struggle of dual addiction

Oral steroid use in patients with inflammatory diseases increases risk of infection

Unregulated pharmacy benefit manager practices may contribute to escalating expenses

New chemoimmunotherapy regimen for aggressive form of lymphoma gets FDA approval

Study identifies proteins that interact with processes regulating gene p53

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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