http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Use and abuse of "bath salts," a new group of designer drugs, have been increasing in recent years, particularly among teenagers. Poison control centers received over 2,000 calls last year for patients with delusions, hallucinations and paranoia following "bath salt" use. Although the synthetic compounds found in "bath salts" are routinely changing in order to circumvent laws on banned substances, federal legislation recently added MDPV, a common constituent in "bath salts," to the list of Schedule 1 drugs – a list that includes cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and other stimulants similar to MDPV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-drug-salts-confer-additional-adolescents.html Health Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:49:39 EST news285940172 Designer drugs are multiplying at a worrying rate and increasingly sending users to hospital, a UN-affiliated report said Tuesday, calling for international efforts to stem the spread of these substances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-drugs-health.html Addiction Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:27:37 EST news281687251 An international research collaboration led by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the University of Dundee, in the U.K., have developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at once. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-paves-drugs-aimed-multiple-protein.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:16 EST news274533992 Nonprescription medications are just as likely a cause of poisoning as prescription drugs, according to a new study by Timothy Wiegand, M.D. from the University of Rochester Medical Center in the US and colleagues. Their work, which analyzes the data from the second annual report of the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), is published online in Springer's Journal of Medical Toxicology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-nonprescription-medication-abuse-underestimated.html Medications Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:27:12 EST news268575968 (Medical Xpress) -- President Obama signed a bill into law this week designating certain chemicals found in designer drugs as FDA-controlled substances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-tackle-drug-craze.html Addiction Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:22:40 EST news261652952 Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that advanced pancreatic cancers in mice can't survive without continued expression of a mutant oncogene that "rewires" key metabolic pathways to fuel the cancer cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-advanced-pancreatic-tumors-oncogene.html Cancer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:33:37 EST news254669548 (Medical Xpress) -- A researcher at the University of Sydney has discovered how the increasingly common street drug mephedrone affects the brain, helping to explain why it is potentially such an addictive substance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-party-drug-brain.html Medical research Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:05:25 EST news239281517 Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-discovery-insulin-pancreas-diabetes-drugs.html Medical research Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:54:53 EST news236274880