Medications
What is Melanotan-II, the drug that consumers are urged to avoid?
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Jan 30, 2023
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Medications
The time is now to curb spring allergies
Send yourself some love this Valentine's Day by setting a reminder to start taking your spring allergy medications.
Jan 25, 2023
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Medical research
Antiviral compound could be broadly efficient in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2
A new study led by Gonçalo Bernardes, group leader at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal) and Professor at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), published recently in the journal ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Pediatrics
Simple nasal spray shown to significantly reduce snoring and breathing difficulties in children
A simple nasal spray significantly reduced snoring and breathing difficulties in children and halved the number needing to have their tonsils removed, according to a new study.
Jan 17, 2023
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Medications
Nasal delivery of antibodies helps treat symptoms of a stroke in mice
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Switzerland and Germany has found that antibodies that heal the brain after a stroke can be delivered via nasal spray in mice. Their study was published in Proceedings ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nasal injections could treat long-term COVID-19–related smell loss
Early in the pandemic, when people with COVID-19 began reporting that they lost their sense of smell, Zara Patel, MD, figured as much. A professor of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine, Patel has, for years, studied loss ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Medical research
Developing mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses
Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have proved exceptionally difficult to develop. In a new review article in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers ...
Jan 11, 2023
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Medical research
Scientists pinpoint COVID-19 virus's entry and exit ports inside our noses
Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line.
Jan 10, 2023
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Medications
New York doctors are now required to prescribe naloxone to some patients on opioid painkillers
Without opioid painkillers to dull the ache in his knees and other joints, Arnold Wilson wouldn't be able to walk half a block. The 63-year-old former New York City nurse has crippling arthritis for which he takes OxyContin ...
Jan 9, 2023
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Health
Coping with nicotine withdrawal symptoms
Giving up nicotine can be a brutal experience that can include everything from physical symptoms, such as headache and nausea, to mood issues, including irritability, anxiety and depression.
Jan 9, 2023
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