A survey of emergency contraceptive pills in Peru found that 28 percent of the batches studied were either of substandard quality or falsified. Many pills released the active ingredient too slowly. Others had the wrong active ...
Apr 18, 2014
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Faulty batches of generic lamotrigine tablets—an anti-convulsant drug commonly used for treating bipolar disorder and epilepsy—are being dispensed to patients in Australia. The compromised product is likely a result of ...
Nov 30, 2022
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A five-year trial at a Brisbane Hospital has increased the accuracy of diagnosing patients with amyloidosis, a group of rare and incurable diseases caused by abnormal protein deposits in tissues and organs.
Nov 2, 2016
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A gene that controls the completion of meiosis in spermatogenesis has been discovered by researchers from Kumamoto University. Until now, details of the mechanism that inactivates the expression of genes involved in the meiotic ...
Aug 24, 2021
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Researchers have found changes in the levels of particular proteins in people's blood up to two years before they were diagnosed with breast cancer.
Nov 16, 2022
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Researchers from Skoltech were part of a research consortium studying a case of vertical COVID-19 transmission from mother to her unborn child that resulted in major complications in the pregnancy, premature birth and death ...
Mar 18, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Routine urine samples can be used to test for medication adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the June issue of Diabetes Care.
May 23, 2019
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EMBL-EBI researchers have developed a new computational method to study biological signalling networks in healthy and cancer cells.
Sep 10, 2015
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In Alzheimer's disease, abnormal proteins snake through the brain, causing neurons to wither away and die. But even as these proteins choke out the brain's molecular machinery, some Alzheimer's patients live well into old ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Although few people realize it, modern medicine relies heavily on the ovarian cells of Chinese hamsters, not as a direct cure, but rather as a way to engineer custom protein-based therapeutics. These therapeutics can treat ...
Feb 23, 2018
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