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Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Are On Prescription Drugs

Nearly 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids a... Full Article

‘Big Data’ Shows Promise in Breast Cancer Research
Only eight months into its $100 million, five-year enterprise analytics effort, UPMC and its research partners at the University of Pittsburgh are starting to see the potentia... Full Article

ASHP Publishes Analysis of Infections Related to Compounding Pharmacies
In the wake of the deadly infections in 2012 from drugs compounded at the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a new study examines similar outbreaks in the US over the last... Full Article

Researchers Conclude that What Causes Menopause is—Wait for it—Men
After decades of laboring under other theories that never seemed to add up, a team led by biologist Rama Singh has concluded that what causes menopause in women is men. Singh... Full Article

Brain-Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Movement Disorders
A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such a... Full Article

Leading the Way in Completely Managing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
From a clinical-based perspective, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) can be characterized as an unmet global phenomenon in which anesthesia practitioners and PACU nurse... Full Article

Sickle Cell Anemia Therapy Advances to Phase II Clinical Trials
Seeking to improve the lives of sickle cell anemia sufferers around the world, researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, the Dana-Farber/Children's H... Full Article

New Tasks Become as Simple as Waving a Hand with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those actions. This t... Full Article

New Clinical Trial of Auditory Brainstem Implants for Children
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, is now enrolling a select group of deaf infants and children in a new FDA-approved clinic... Full Article

Re-Analysis of Diabetes Drug Finds No Higher Heart Attack Risk
A re-analysis of the data from a pivotal study of rosiglitazone found no increased risk of cardiovascular events associated with the controversial diabetes drug, according to ... Full Article

Drug Prevents Post-Traumatic Stress-Like Symptoms in Mice
When injected into mice immediately following a traumatic event, a new drug prevents the animals from developing memory problems and increased anxiety that are indicative of p... Full Article

Fish Oil Found to Lower Stress Response
Fish oil supplements may protect the heart in stressful situations, according to a recent study. Jason Carter, a researcher at Michigan Technological University, conducted the... Full Article

Study Finds Proof That Immune Defenses Amplify Parkinson’s Disease Damage
The same mechanism that lets the immune system mount a massive attack against invading bacteria contributes to the destruction of brain cells as part of Parkinson’s disease, a... Full Article

Simple Screening Test at UCLA Catches Newborn's Hidden Heart Condition
Before he was discharged from UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, baby Gaël Villegas received the standard panel of newborn screenings to check for genetic and metabolic diseas... Full Article

Common Protein Known to Cause Autism Now Linked to Specific Behaviors
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic malady that is the most common inherited cause of autism and intellectual disability. Brain scientists know the gene defect that causes F... Full Article

Dogs, Humans Affected by OCD Have Similar Brain Abnormalities
Another piece of the puzzle to better understand and treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has fallen into place with the publication of new research that shows that the s... Full Article

Interleukin 17F Level and Interferon Beta Response in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
A study by Hans-Peter Hartung, MD, of Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldoft, Germany, and colleagues examines the association between IL-17F and treatment response to interfe... Full Article

Cervical Cancer: Paradigms at Home and Abroad
Cervical cancer, a disease that will affect more than 12,000 women in the United States this year and more than a half million women worldwide, leads to significantly fewer de... Full Article

Duke to Co-Lead NIH Research Network on Antibacterial Resistance
Investigators at Duke Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been selected to oversee a nationwide research program on antibacterial resistance, ... Full Article

Cancer Drug Shortages Hit 83% of US Oncologists
Eighty-three percent of cancer doctors report that they’ve faced oncology drug shortages, and of those, nearly all say that their patients’ treatment has been impacted, accord... Full Article

Combination of Drugs Produces Dramatic Tumor Responses in Advanced Melanoma Patients
The combination of the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab and the investigational antibody drug nivolumab led to long-lasting tumor shrinkage in more than half of patients with met... Full Article

Therapy That Heats and Destroys Bone Tumors Eases Patients’ Pain
Patients with cancer that has spread to their bones are often treated with radiation therapy to reduce pain. But if that treatment doesn’t work, or can’t be used again, a seco... Full Article

HIV Treatment Adherence and Outcomes Improving Among HIV-Positive Transgender People
HIV-positive transgender people are just as likely to stay in care, take their medication and have similar outcomes as other men and women living with the disease, according t... Full Article

Roswell Park, Jasco Pharmaceuticals Join Forces to Advance Drug Research
A new partnership, first of its kind for both organizations, will see Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and Jasco Pharmaceuticals, LLC collaborating to advance development ... Full Article

Grant Funds Research Into Cardiac Stem Cells as Treatment for Heart Disease Related to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Newport Beach-based nonprofit Coalition Duchenne has awarded a $150,000 grant to a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute team investigating whether an experimental cardiac stem cell tr... Full Article

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