Addiction
Juul can keep selling e-cigarettes as court blocks FDA ban
Juul can continue to sell its electronic cigarettes, at least for now, after a federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a government ban.
Jun 25, 2022
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Health
Home COVID tests can cause harm if not stored safely: FDA
At-home COVID-19 tests are a key tool in containing the spread of the coronavirus. But a few safety precautions are in order to prevent serious injury, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
Mar 22, 2022
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Medical research
PDMS-based liver-on-a-chip naturally absorbs some drugs, affecting toxicity results
Liver-on-a-chip devices capture the physiological and mechanical properties of the liver. They are commonly used by researchers to study how the liver metabolizes different compounds and drugs. In a new study seen in ACS ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New anti-cancer immunotherapy drug: Fewer side effects, more therapeutic
Unlike conventional cancer drugs that attack and kill cancer cells directly, anti-cancer immunotherapy, which kills cancer cells by strengthening the body's immunity, is a novel type of cancer treatment currently attracting ...
Jun 28, 2021
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Medical research
Biologists create better method to culture cells for testing drug toxicity
When a new drug is being developed, the first question is, "Does it work?" The second question is, "Does it do harm?" No matter how effective a therapy is, if it harms the patient in the process, it has little value.
Apr 8, 2021
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Health
NIDA: Teen vaping levels seem to have plateaued in 2020
(HealthDay)—Teen vaping levels remained high in 2020 but have not increased substantially since 2019, according to results from the annual Monitoring the Future survey, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug ...
Jan 5, 2021
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Medical research
Protein twist and squeeze confers cancer drug resistance
In 1986, cellular biochemist Kazumitsu Ueda, currently at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), discovered that a protein called ABCB1 could transport multiple chemotherapeutics out of ...
Dec 29, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Treatment of chloroquine poisoning
Research by Bangor University's Professor Dyfrig Hughes has provided important evidence on the safety of treatments that are being tested for use in COVID-19.
May 29, 2020
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Medical research
New drug leads could battle brain-eating amoebae
Brain-eating amoebae can cause particularly harmful forms of encephalitis, and more than 95% of people who develop these rare but devastating infections die. Despite the high mortality rate, there is currently no single effective ...
Feb 12, 2020
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Medical research
AQAMAN takes aim at rare neurodegenerative diseases
A synthetic small molecule compound called AQAMAN can prevent and even reverse harmful protein build-up in neurons that is associated with several rare neurodegenerative disorders, including polyglutamine (or polyQ) diseases.
Jan 10, 2020
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