Losing Sleep Over Sleep Inducing Drugs
FDA in the United States has urged drug companies to print strong new warnings on 13 drugs that are intended// to treat sleep disorder. FDA has also ordered the companies to provide information to the patients on drug safety. Last week the FDA had underlined the harmful effects of some of the d...Concerns About Popular Anti-Ulcer Pill Used For Inducing Labor
A review study conducted on a popular anti-ulcer pill used worldwide for inducing labor and preventing post-delivery bleeding reveals that it is equally effective// as the other expensive drugs. Researchers have however urged that the drug must be used with caution. The pill – a prostaglandin k...Therapy inducing self-repair of nerves to help Alzheimer’
A team of scientists has found a way to induce nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to release natural antioxidants to protect the cells from the damage // caused by stress and free radicals. The new therapeutic approach is based on a compound found in the body. The findings might give new ...Justifying the use of letrozole for inducing ovulation
Letrozole used for the treatment of advanced/metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women is also being used by // infertility specialists as a second line of treatment for infertility for inducing ovulation. Studies indicate that letrozole was used not on an experimental basis, but as an accep...Hip and back fractures increase mortality rates in people older than 50
...l activity, and comorbidity of other diseases. "Hip fractures may have long-lasting effects that result in eventual death by signalling or actually inducing a progressive decline in health," write Dr. George Ioannidis and coauthors. "Our results also showed that vertebral fracture was an independent predic...Risks of Delaying ACL Reconstruction in Young Athletes May Be Too High, Study Shows
...uly 9-12) details the benefits and risks of repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in young athletes under the age of 14. "The risk of inducing a growth disturbance with early reconstruction of a torn ACL must be balanced against the risk of further knee damage by delaying treatment until clos...Neurocrine Biosciences Presents Elagolix Data
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... New research suggests that antibiotic treatment could be asymptomatically inducing the transmission of the healthcare-acquired infection, C. difficile , contributing to the outbreaks that have recently been widely reported in hospit...Powerful nutrient cocktail can put kids with Crohn's into remission
...a first-line therapy for Crohn's disease," he says. The next step in his research, says Dr. Shamir, is to "define exactly the role of nutrition in inducing remission in these patients, and the role of nutrition in maintaining remission." ...Specific genetic cause of fetal alcohol-related developmental disorders found
...inase type III, or Dio3, she explained. Sittig and her colleagues hypothesized that alcohol exposure in the womb leads to cognitive impairments by inducing epigenetic alterationschanges to DNA that do not alter the actual DNA sequenceof developmental genes like Dio3 in the fetal brain. To investigate this...'Shock and kill' research gives new hope for HIV-1 eradication
...to induce the 'awakening' of a portion of cells within a latently infected cell population. The researchers then repeated the experiment adding a drug inducing oxidative stress, buthionine sulfoximine (BSO). The results showed that BSO recruited cells non-responsive to the HDAC inhibitors into the responding ...Histogen Hair Regrowth Clinical Trial Presented at ISHRS Annual Meeting
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...adstone Institutes and Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, whose lab first succeeded in inducing iPS cells in mouse. Newly Formed Scientific Advisory Board Members iPierian has created a new SAB with world-renowned scientists in the fiel...ImmunoVaccine Technologies Partners with FIT Biotech to advance a therapeutic HIV vaccine
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