Public Release: 7-Nov-2017 Mislabeling may lead to adverse effects for patients, including children with epilepsy University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine PHILADELPHIA – In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the medicinal use of Cannabidiol (CBD), a… Read More ›
Pharmaceutical – Medical Devices
What those guys are doing to make Universal Culling, oh excuse me Health Care a more efficient process….
Reflux medications linked to chronic kidney disease and kidney failure
Public Release: 4-Nov-2017 American Society of Nephrology Highlights In an analysis of published studies, individuals who used proton pump inhibitors had a 33% increased relative risk of developing chronic kidney disease or kidney failure when compared with non-users. Results from… Read More ›
Miracle cure costs less than a budget airline flight
Public Release: 1-Nov-2017 World Hepatitis Alliance The revolution in generic drugs means that a 12-week course of drugs to cure hepatitis C can be manufactured for just US$50 – as low as the cost of a plane ticket on many… Read More ›
How flu shot manufacturing forces influenza to mutate
Public Release: 30-Oct-2017 Egg-based production causes virus to target bird cells, making vaccine less effective Scripps Research Institute IMAGE: The L194P egg-adaptive mutation dramatically increases the motility of the major epitope on the hemagglutinin of influenza H3 viruses…. Read More ›
Flu vaccine and booster fails to protect leukemia patients, yet still recommended?
Public Release: 16-Oct-2017 Flu vaccine failed to protect young leukemia patients during cancer treatment St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators said the results reinforce the importance of hand washing and other measures to help protect vulnerable patients from influenza infections… Read More ›
Common acid reflux medications promote chronic liver disease
Public Release: 10-Oct-2017 University of California – San Diego Caption In mice, some common acid reflux medications promote growth of Enterococcus bacteria (like those shown here artificially glowing red in a petri dish) in the intestines. These bacteria also… Read More ›
BU: Resurgence of whooping cough may owe to vaccine’s inability to prevent infections
“This disease is back because we didn’t really understand how our immune defenses against whooping cough worked, and did not understand how the vaccines needed to work to prevent it,” said Christopher J. Gill, associate professor of global health at… Read More ›
Drug, which once sold for $40 for a vial raise to $23,000 overnight
Public Release: 11-Sep-2017 Expensive drug driving up Medicare expenditures without evidence of greater efficacy Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore. – Medicare spent more than $1 billion over a five-year period on a high-priced drug that has not been proven more… Read More ›
Using antidepressants during pregnancy may affect your child’s mental health
Public Release: 7-Sep-2017 Aarhus University IMAGE: The study shows that the increase not only applies for autism but also for other psychiatric diagnoses like depression, anxiety and ADHD. Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the… Read More ›
Medicaid patients continue high prescription opioid use after overdose
Public Release: 22-Aug-2017 The JAMA Network Journals Despite receiving medical attention for an overdose, patients in Pennsylvania Medicaid continued to have persistently high prescription opioid use, with only slight increases in use of medication-assisted treatment, according to a… Read More ›
Mystery surrounds the missing ingredients of the smallpox vaccine
Public Release: 18-Aug-2017 Seeking the secret ingredient in the original smallpox vaccine Publicase Comunicação Científica Smallpox is an infectious disease caused by variola virus that has killed millions of people over the centuries. The disease is characterized by the growth… Read More ›
How a chemo drug can help cancer spread from the breast to the lungs
Public Release: 7-Aug-2017 Mouse study helps explain the paradoxical pro-cancer effects of paclitaxel Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio -The very same treatment that thwarts breast cancer has a dark side — it can fuel the spread of the… Read More ›
Surgery for early prostate cancer may not save lives
Public Release: 12-Jul-2017 Surgery for early prostate cancer may not save lives Most men just as likely to survive with limited or no treatment Washington University in St. Louis Caption Gerald L. Andriole, M.D., (right) director of Washington University’s… Read More ›
WHO decision to downgrade Tamiflu ‘comes far too late’ argues expert
Public Release: 12-Jul-2017 BMJ In an editorial published today, Mark Ebell, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Georgia, outlines important lessons from the Tamiflu story. Tamiflu (oseltamivir) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)… Read More ›
A newly-developed hands-free musical instrument now allows people to make music with their minds
Public Release: 12-Jul-2017 Creating music by thought alone Frontiers IMAGE: The Encephalophone is a musical instrument that can be played by the mind alone. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Washington. Neurologists have created a hands-free, thought-controlled musical… Read More ›
Sunscreen creams break down into dangerous chemical compounds under the sunlight
Public Release: 27-Jun-2017 Scientists of Moscow State University have found out that avobenzone decomposes into harmful chemical compounds Lomonosov Moscow State University Caption Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have demonstrated in… Read More ›
More than half of all opioid prescriptions go to people with mental illness
Public Release: 27-Jun-2017 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR–Fifty-one percent of all opioid medications distributed in the U.S. each year are prescribed to adults with mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, according to new research from the University of… Read More ›
Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit masculinity
Public Release: 22-Jun-2017 Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit the development of ‘male behavior’ in mice; new research from the University of Copenhagen shows that it can reduce sex drive and aggressive behavior University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health… Read More ›
Popular prostate drug linked to serious side effects
Public Release: 22-Jun-2017 Boston University Medical Center (Boston) — Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with the commonly prescribed Avodart (Dutsteride) may put men at an increased risk for diabetes, elevated cholesterol levels, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and… Read More ›
Study finds 1 in 5 hospitalized adults suffer side effects from prescribed antibiotics
Public Release: 14-Jun-2017 Infectious disease experts say nearly a fifth of prescriptions were unnecessary Johns Hopkins Medicine A study examining the impact of antibiotics prescribed for nearly 1500 adult patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital found that adverse… Read More ›
Unpublished trial data show side effects of a key MS drug increase secondary autoimmune diseases by 50%
Public Release: 12-Jun-2017 Previously unpublished trial data explain effects and side effects of key MS drug Through a Freedom of Information request to the European Medicines Agency, researchers from Queen Mary University of London gained access to the phase III… Read More ›
New fabric coating could thwart chemical weapons, save lives
Public Release: 7-Jun-2017 American Chemical Society IMAGE: A new fabric coating could neutralize chemical weapons and help save countless lives. Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society Click here to download the image. Chemical weapons are nightmarish. In a millisecond,… Read More ›
TSRI anti-heroin vaccine found effective in non-human primates
Public Release: 6-Jun-2017 Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA – June 6, 2017 – A vaccine developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to block the “high” of heroin has proven effective in non-human primates. This is the… Read More ›
Statins increase all causes of mortality in older adults ( JAMA Study )
Public Release: 22-May-2017 Was a statin beneficial for primary cardiovascular prevention in older adults? The JAMA Network Journals Analysis of data from older adults who participated in a clinical trial showed no benefit of a statin for all-cause mortality or… Read More ›
Rotavirus vaccine increases the risk of the intestines folding, there is a better way to vaccinate
Public Release: 22-May-2017 Rotavirus vaccination in infants and young children Slightly increased risk of intussusception Deutsches Aerzteblatt International COLOGNE. Rotaviruses (RV) are the commonest cause of diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. To protect against rotavirus infection, in 2013… Read More ›
Study: ‘Moral enhancement’ technologies are neither feasible nor wise
Public Release: 16-May-2017 North Carolina State University A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) finds that “moral enhancement technologies” — which are discussed as ways of improving human behavior –… Read More ›
Common antibiotics linked to increased risk of miscarriage
Public Release: 1-May-2017 Canadian Medical Association Journal Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole, were associated with an increased risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, according to a new study published in… Read More ›
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) damages memory and coordination, exercise can help recover
Public Release: 26-Apr-2017 Resistance exercises recover motor and memory impairment caused by flavor enhancer The Physiological Society A study in rats, published in Experimental Physiology, showed that resistance exercise recovers memory and motor impairment caused by the flavour enhancer monosodium… Read More ›
‘Alarmingly high’ risk of death for people with opioid use disorder in general medical care
Public Release: 24-Apr-2017 Wolters Kluwer Health April 24, 2017 – Almost one-fifth of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in a large healthcare system died during a four-year follow-up period, reports a study in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the… Read More ›
How to hack a cell
Public Release: 4-Apr-2017 Boston University engineer programs living cells Boston University College of Engineering The human body is made up of trillions of cells, microscopic computers that carry out complex behaviors according to the signals they receive from… Read More ›
‘Harmless’ painkillers associated with up to 50% increased risk of cardiac arrest
Public Release: 15-Mar-2017 Researchers advise avoiding diclofenac and limiting ibuprofen to 1200 mg per day European Society of Cardiology Sophia Antipolis, 15 March 2017: Painkillers considered harmless by the general public are associated with increased risk of cardiac arrest, according… Read More ›
Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people still obey
Public Release: 14-Mar-2017 Society for Personality and Social Psychology The title is direct, “Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?” and the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes. Social psychologists from SWPS… Read More ›
Popular heartburn drugs linked to gradual yet ‘silent’ kidney damage
Public Release: 22-Feb-2017 Most patients don’t experience acute kidney problems beforehand Washington University in St. Louis Caption Taking popular heartburn medication for prolonged periods may lead to serious kidney damage, even in people who show no signs of… Read More ›
Food additive found in candy, gum could alter digestive cell structure and function, titanium dioxide
Public Release: 16-Feb-2017 Small intestinal cells hindered by chronic exposure to common food additive Binghamton University Caption Researchers exposed a small intestinal cell culture model to the physiological equivalent of a meal’s worth of titanium oxide nanoparticles —… Read More ›
Deaths due to medical error in US hospitals estimated to be greater than 200,000 deaths per year
Public Release: 13-Feb-2017 Preventing hospital-related deaths due to medical errors — ‘We can and must do better’ Wolters Kluwer Health February 13, 2017 – How many patients die in the hospital as a result of preventable medical errors? While… Read More ›
The drugs don’t work, say back pain researchers
Public Release: 2-Feb-2017 George Institute for Global Health Commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, used to treat back pain provide little benefit, but cause side effects, according to new research from The George Institute for Global… Read More ›
Antibiotics shown to stimulate bad bacteria growth by 300%
Public Release: 30-Jan-2017 University of Exeter IMAGE: These are two types of lab E. coli smeared across an agar plate. The green ones are drug resistant and the blue ones are not. Credit: The University of Exeter The growth… Read More ›
Survival rates for people suffering from heart failure have not improved since 1998
Public Release: 30-Jan-2017 Heart failure survival rates show no improvement Oxford University Press USA Survival rates for people suffering from heart failure have not improved since 1998, according to a study led by University of Oxford researchers. Published in Family… Read More ›
Rat-grown mouse pancreases help reverse diabetes in mice
Public Release: 25-Jan-2017 Stanford University Medical Center Rat-grown mouse pancreases help reverse diabetes in mice, say researchers at Stanford, University of Tokyo Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into… Read More ›
Antibiotics, not dirty hospitals, the main cause of C. difficile epidemic
Public Release: 24-Jan-2017 University of Oxford The study concluded that overuse of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin led to the outbreak of severe diarrhoea caused by C. difficile that hit headlines from 2006 onwards. The outbreak was stopped by substantially… Read More ›
Psychological ‘vaccine’ could help immunize public against ‘fake news’ on climate change
Public Release: 22-Jan-2017 University of Cambridge In medicine, vaccinating against a virus involves exposing a body to a weakened version of the threat, enough to build a tolerance. Social psychologists believe that a similar logic can be applied… Read More ›
New data show heightened risk of birth defects with antidepressants
Public Release: 18-Jan-2017 University of Montreal MONTREAL, January 18, 2017 – A new Université de Montréal study in the British Medical Journal reveals that antidepressants prescribed to pregnant women could increase the chance of having a baby with… Read More ›
Gastric acid suppressants linked to hospitalization
Public Release: 11-Jan-2017 Sax Institute New research has found a link between popular heartburn drugs and an increase in the risk of infectious gastroenteritis — an illness that results in 13.1 million lost days of work in Australia… Read More ›
Acid suppression medications linked to serious gastrointestinal infections
Public Release: 5-Jan-2017 Wiley In a population-based study from Scotland, use of commonly-prescribed acid suppression medications such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) was linked with an increased risk of intestinal infections with C. difficile and Campylobacter bacteria, which… Read More ›
New drugs, higher costs offer little survival benefit in advanced lung cancer
Public Release: 4-Jan-2017 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a decade that saw the development of new therapies for non-small cell… Read More ›
Sunlight and an Artificial leaf as mini-factory for drugs
Public Release: 21-Dec-2016 Artificial leaf as mini-factory for drugs Eindhoven University of Technology Caption Even with the naked eye the amount of light captured by the ‘mini-factories’ is visible, lit up bright red. The ‘veins’ through the leaves are the… Read More ›
Scientific ‘facts’ could be false
Public Release: 20-Dec-2016 University of Copenhagen – Niels Bohr Institute IMAGE: Silas Boye Nissen is a Ph.D. student in biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Credit: Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen. When is a scientific result true… Read More ›
Traffic fatalities decline in states with medical marijuana laws
Public Release: 20-Dec-2016 Most affected are those between the ages of 25 and 44 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health States that enacted medical marijuana laws, on average, experienced reductions in traffic fatalities, according to a study by… Read More ›
Medications for heartburn and gastric issues could lower possibility of survival and recovery for cancer patients
Public Release: 15-Dec-2016 Avoiding over-the-counter heartburn meds could save cancer patients’ lives University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry IMAGE: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which are very common medications for heartburn and gastrointestinal bleeding, decrease effects of… Read More ›
Potential Mumps Vaccine failure Arkansas, 95% of children infected have been fully immunized
Mumps The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is investigating an outbreak of Mumps in Arkansas.December 3, 2016 – Mass Vaccination ClinicMumps Clinic Flyer English | Spanish (PDF)Mumps Clinic Poster English | Spanish (PNG) CURRENT CASE COUNT:The ADH will now report… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 