Archive: 16/03/2015
Genetic analysis of current smokers shows that high tobacco consumption lowers body weight
Published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology, a new study of 80,342 participants, including 15,220 current smokers, from the Copenhagen General Population Study has shown that smokers who consume a high amount ...
Mar 16, 2015
New hepatitis C drugs will place strain on health care system
The cost of treating people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with newly approved therapies will likely place a tremendous economic burden on the country's health care system. The prediction comes from a cost-effectiveness ...
Mar 16, 2015
Overhaul of European and US medical device safety recommended by leading diabetes associations
Two major diabetes associations have joined forces to recommend a comprehensive overhaul of medical device safety, involving regulators, manufacturers, doctors and the associations themselves. The recommendations come from ...
Mar 16, 2015
Investigators find window of vulnerability for STIs to infect female reproductive tract
Charles R. Wira, PhD, and colleagues at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine have presented a comprehensive review of the role of sex hormones in the geography of the female reproductive tract and evidence supporting a "window ...
Mar 16, 2015