Archive: 31/10/2013
FDA enlists companies to head off drug shortages
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing a new proposal designed to head off more shortages of crucial medications that have disrupted care at hospitals and health clinics nationwide.
Oct 31, 2013
Long-term use of prescription-based painkillers increases the risk of depression, researcher finds
Opioid analgesics, or prescription-based narcotic pain killers, have long been known to reduce pain, but reports of adverse effects and addiction continue to surface. Now, a team of investigators led by a Saint Louis University ...
Oct 31, 2013
Newly identified proteins make promising targets for blocking graft-vs-host disease
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified new proteins that control the function of critical immune cell subsets called T-cells, which are responsible for a serious and often ...
Oct 31, 2013
Scientists discover why newborns get sick so often
If you think cold and flu season is tough, trying being an infant. A new research finding published in the November 2013 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology sheds new light on why newborns appear to be so prone to getting ...
Oct 31, 2013
Studies: Current hepatitis C treatments can't be used by more than half of patients; others lose opportunity for treatme
More than half of chronic hepatitis C patients studied in a new research project led by Henry Ford Hospital were not treated for the potentially fatal disease, either because they couldn't withstand current therapies or because ...
Oct 31, 2013
Patient in 'vegetative state' not just aware, but paying attention
A patient in a seemingly vegetative state, unable to move or speak, showed signs of attentive awareness that had not been detected before, a new study reveals. This patient was able to focus on words signalled by the experimenters ...
Oct 31, 2013
Research identifies ways to improve access to mental health services
A study by researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester has identified ways to improve how older people and ethnic minority populations access mental health care services.
Oct 31, 2013
Increasing rate of knee replacements linked to obesity among young, researchers say
Contrary to popular myth, it is not the aging Baby Boomer or weekend warrior that is causing the unprecedented increase in knee replacement surgeries. Data gathered by more than 125 orthopedic surgeons from 22 states across ...
Oct 31, 2013
Studies of experimental hepatitis C drug show promise for preventing recurrence in liver transplant
New drug therapies offer promise to some hepatitis C sufferers whose transplanted livers are threated by a recurrence of the disease, including some patients who have had no treatment options.
Oct 31, 2013