Medications
Why do some medicines need to be taken with food?
Have you ever been instructed to take your medicine with food and wondered why? Perhaps you've wondered if you really need to?
Sep 10, 2024
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Australian study finds medications for alcohol use disorders underutilized
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found medications used to treat alcohol use disorders are severely underutilized in Australia.
Sep 10, 2024
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Off-label drugs prescribed for breathlessness may do more harm than good, warn scientists
A new study from King's College London shows that off-label prescriptions of a common antidepressant doesn't help breathlessness in patients with respiratory disease—and may cause side effects.
Sep 9, 2024
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Sickle cell patients given Lactated Ringer's solution for pain improve more easily than those given normal saline
Sickle cell disease is a common genetic disorder characterized by periodic occurrences of pain that occur repeatedly throughout life. These episodes, referred to as vaso-occlusive episodes, happen when sickled cells obstruct ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Combined anti-seizure drug and omega-3 may lower COVID-19 risks
Ronald Rodriguez, MD, Ph.D., professor of medical education and urology at Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has discovered ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Alzheimer's study: Drug combination improves memory skills in mice
Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer's disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.
Sep 9, 2024
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Zongertinib demonstrates promising efficacy in patients with HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer
The HER2-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor zongertinib was well tolerated and demonstrated promising efficacy in patients with HER2 mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer, meeting the primary endpoint of the Beamion ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Medications
Q&A: Researchers discuss statin, metformin, and aspirin use with hepatocellular carcinoma
Erik Almazan, MD, of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Raymond T. Chung, MD, of the Liver Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the authors of a paper titled "Association of Statin, Metformin, ...
Sep 9, 2024
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BAY 2927088 demonstrates 'rapid, substantial and durable responses' in patients with HER2-mutant NSCLC
Treatment with BAY 2927088 led to rapid, substantial, and durable responses in patients with heavily pretreated HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to research presented at the International Association ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Ivonescimab outperforms pembrolizumab in study for first-line treatment of PD-L1-positive advanced NSCLC: Clinical trial
Data from a Phase 3 study has revealed that ivonescimab demonstrates a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival compared to pembrolizumab for patients with PD-L1-positive ...
Sep 8, 2024
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