Archive: 07/05/2020

Japan set to approve remdesivir for coronavirus treatment

Japan plans to authorise Thursday the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients, the government said, with an eye to approving another medication Avigan this month.

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Fears of 'second wave' hang over coronavirus successes

Britain was expected to extend its nationwide lockdown on Thursday, but the European country hit hardest by the coronavirus plans cautiously to ease some restrictions on economic and social activity next week as it tries ...

May 7, 2020

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Emergency drug overdose visits associated with increased risk for later suicide

A new data analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health finds patients who visited the emergency department for an opioid overdose are 100 times more likely to die by drug overdose in the year after being discharged ...

May 7, 2020

New review of studies shows no link between prenatal antidepressant exposure and autism

A mother's use of antidepressants during pregnancy does not appear to increase her child's risk for autism, according to a new meta-analysis by Jeffrey Newport, M.D., published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

May 7, 2020

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Canadian team first in world to treat COVID-19 with specialized dialysis

As part of a randomized controlled trial, a team from Lawson Health Research Institute is the first in the world to treat a patient with COVID-19 using a modified dialysis device. The device gently removes a patient's blood, ...

May 7, 2020

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Study shows drug saves lives of kids fighting deadly immune disease

After 20 years of trying, modern medicine remains unable to lower the roughly 40 percent mortality rate for the severe childhood immune disease called HLH (hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis), which damages vital organs and ...

May 7, 2020

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Androgen-deprivation treatments for prostate cancer could protect men from COVID-19

A study of 4532 men in the Veneto region of Italy has found that those who were being treated for prostate cancer with androgen-deprivation therapies (ADT) were less likely to develop the coronavirus COVID-19 and, if they ...

May 7, 2020

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Sleep difficulties linked to altered brain development in infants who later diagnosed with autism

Infants spend most of their first year of life asleep. Those hours are prime time for brain development, when neural connections form and sensory memories are encoded.

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