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Needle free future for diabetics

...blood samples without a syringe, and administering drugs without an injection. Researchers at the University of Texas, tried to show just what can be done for people with diabetes using iontophoresis. There's already a monitoring device called 'Glucowatch' which extracts glucose through the skin using i...

Attacking therapy with electricity

...rnia, have been developing a new way of delivering drugs called electroporation, which involves punching ti...ry of DNA for gene therapy, and to the delivery of drugs for a range of medical problems, including heart disease and glaucoma. Some of the applications are ...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...a, is in a class called bisphosphonates. Two other drugs in this class are used as once-a-day pills to treat osteoporosis; one also is available as a once-a-week pill. Novartis said it does not know how much the drug is likely to cost. If a version of Zometa is approved for use against osteoporosis, it wil...

Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

People who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may reduce their risk of developing...provide the strongest evidence to date that statin drugs may also help protect people from Alzheimer's disease. An earlier, smaller study had suggested the...

Stem Cell Transplants May Be Effective For MS Patients

... patients have needed to take MS disease-modifying drugs since the transplant, Kraft said. Researchers said the treatment needs to be studied on more patients to confirm its effectiveness and studies are also needed to determine its long-term effec....

Hepatitis E virus made impotent

...n on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...ing may be useful in allowing doctors to prescribe drugs that hold back dementia before it develops fully. But the researchers stress that not all cases of mild cognitive impairment will turn into full-blown dementia. It may, in some cases, be a condition in its own right. But it should not be seen as a no...

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...onditions are routinely treated with diuretics, or drugs that decrease body fluid by increasing urine production. But diuretics can be dangerous and even deadly for TRALI patients, who need more fluids....

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

...from 10 mg to 160 mg of oxycodone, while the other drugs contain 2.25 mg to 5 mg of the drug....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...kers--containers used to dissolve and heat illicit drugs including heroin and cocaine--were four times more... colleagues felt that, in most injection sessions, drugs are placed in a cooker and dissolved in water. The solution is then drawn into a syringe through a c...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...e of the proposal is worrisome. In wake of a dozen drugs pulled off the market because of dangers in recent years, critics say the FDA already is approving drugs too fast and doesn’t adequately monitor problems that can arise when new ones hit the market. Dr...

Liver key to extending life

... to diseases of ageing. "Rather than simply using drugs to treat Alzheimer's and heart disease, we could be using a broader range of interventions targeted at the liver instead," Professor Le Couteur said.His team is exploring avenues such as reducing food intake, using antioxidants designed to work speci...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...cording to a new study taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called 'statins' could elevate the risk of peri...evious research has shown the benefits of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol levels. However, researchers in Texas now reveal that the drugs might// incre...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

...sor of molecular biology at Hopkins University, if drugs could be grown that increase manganese levels, it ... HIV. Boeke said his team currently is looking for drugs that do just that. The higher levels of manganese in yeast were caused by a defective gene called PR...

FDA considers nicotine lollipops illegal

...s nicotine lozenge, to see if they also qualify as drugs being sold illegally....

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...ound Health Care System in Seattle, suggested that drugs that suppress the hormone called ghrelin could cur...ssachusetts notes that research into whether these drugs will mimic the effects of gastric bypass surgery or result in unexpected medical consequences is nee...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...to allow taxpayer dollars for pediatric studies of drugs their makers, despite the incentives, won't do. During a two-year suspension of the older mandate, the FDA will assess if the new law takes care of the problem....

Iron supplementation quite necessary

Hypertensive drugs in general have a common side effect- cough. Iron supplementation cures the annoying cough that often plagues people on a widely-used blood pressure medication. The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are often used to treat high blood pr...

Antidepressants increase gastric bleeding

...ry widely prescribed.They are preferred over older drugs because they are relatively free of side effects.// But, as Researchers at Ottawa Hospital in Canada have just shown, they are not risk-free. Almost 314,000 patients aged 65 and over who had been prescribed antidepressants between 1992 and 1998 were...

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

...archers is already experimenting to see which AIDS drugs best fight HIV in NK cells. Hence it appears that the class of drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, including zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine (3TC...

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