Archive: 11/02/2016
An expert opinion on how to address the skyrocketing prices of cancer drug
Many patients with cancer find themselves in great financial distress, in part because the costs of cancer-fighting drugs are skyrocketing. Is it possible to create public policy that will rein in these prices and cut patients' ...
Feb 11, 2016
Giving support to others—not just receiving it—has beneficial effects
Social support has well-known benefits for physical and mental health. But giving support—rather than receiving it—may have unique positive effects on key brain areas involved in stress and reward responses, suggests ...
Feb 11, 2016
The history of hemodialysis sheds light on the ethical use of limited medical resources
As medical research continues to generate new technologies and drugs for a wide variety of uses, many questions arise regarding how such resources should be used and who should have access to them. These questions are especially ...
Feb 11, 2016
Common antimalarial drug could be used to treat major injury
A common anti-malarial drug Artesunate could be used to reduce organ failure following injury, according to an early study in rats led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Feb 11, 2016
Recent asthma may be linked with abdominal aneurysm rupture
Patients aged 50 and older with recent asthma activity were significantly more likely than non-asthmatics to experience abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture and sudden death, according to new research published in Arteriosclerosis, ...
Feb 11, 2016
Put that in your e-cigarette and smoke it, or should you?
Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person's risk for a host of diseases, and there's an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke full of known carcinogens. ...
Feb 11, 2016