Medications
Why some medications are swallowed while others are injected
When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain?
Jun 20, 2022
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Diabetes
Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is taking aim at the high insulin prices harming people with diabetes
Doctors have been treating diabetes with insulin since 1922. A century later, about 1 in 5 of the 37 million Americans living with diabetes take this medication—a hormone that helps cells absorb sugar from the blood.
May 9, 2022
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Health
Leukemia-causing benzene found in underarm sprays
Anti-perspirant and deodorant body sprays have been found to contain elevated levels of the carcinogen benzene and should be recalled, an independent testing lab said in a petition filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Nov 4, 2021
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Medical research
The world is hungry for mRNA COVID vaccines like Pfizer's, but short of vital components
Given the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is no longer recommended for under-50s following news of very rare blood clots, Australia is looking to other vaccines to plug the gap.
Apr 28, 2021
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Vaccination
Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how
In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Vaccination
Top-speed antibody development
The development of biopharmaceuticals is a long and expensive process. A decade or more can elapse between the discovery of a new protein-based active ingredient and the release of a new drug. One major hurdle on this journey ...
Feb 1, 2021
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Health
Ten lessons for the life sciences from COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen virus-beating technologies progress at unprecedented speed. Scientists have raced to understand and treat the new coronavirus, teams have developed tests and built COVID-19 equipment, and deals ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Diabetes
The hormone glucagon may be a warning light for diabetes
Up to one in four Danes has an unhealthy accumulation of fat in the liver, also known as fatty liver. Fatty liver is rarely the cause of symptoms in itself, but people with fatty liver have an increased risk of developing ...
Sep 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dutch, French, Germans and Italians form virus vaccine alliance
France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands have forged an alliance to speed up the production of a vaccine "on European soil" against the new coronavirus, Dutch officials said Wednesday.
Jun 3, 2020
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Medications
The technology behind Bitcoin may improve the medications of the future
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a prototype of an app that may potentially prescribe the optimal dose of medicine for the individual patient, as well as prevent counterfeit products.
Aug 23, 2019
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