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CDC Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Summary
This is a rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information and guidance as it becomes available. Updated March 26, 2020 CDC is responding to a pandemic of...Full Article
5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Boost Immune System While Social Distancing
As COVID-19 continues to spread and we make lifestyle adjustments in response, the challenge is to maintain your mental and physical health in light of mounting stress. These ...
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Treatment of pain is a challenge in Alzheimer’s disease
The treatment and management of pain in people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be a challenge due to problems in communication and uncommon symptoms of pain. Opioid painkill...
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Minneapolis Pharmacist to receive NKF Medical Advisory Board Distinguished Service Award
Each year, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists in the field of nephrology and selects among them those who most exemplify the re...Full Article
Destress in Your Own Back Yard
While adults are home teleworking, and kids are at home participating in online educational instruction (we hope), it’s even more important during these challenging times to t...Full Article
The impact of the new coronavirus could lead to the longest flu season in decades
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has created a third spike in influenza-like illness (ILI) activity across the United States, as researchers working with AccuWeather pr...
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Lung Specialist Urges Patients and Exercisers to Avoid Toxic Air Caused by Wildfires, Climate Change
From California to Australia, wildfires are growing in frequency and ferocity. Climate scientists draw a direct line from rising global temperatures to a wildfire season that ...Full Article
What Men and Women Lie to Their Doctor About
The TermLife2Go team surveyed 500 people to find out if they’ve ever lied to their doctors, and 23% said they have. Here are some of the white lies, stretched truths, and comp...Full Article
Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage - Scientists advance case for use of molecular machines to treat skin diseases
Molecule-sized drills do the damage they are designed to do. That’s bad news for disease. Scientists at Rice University, Biola University and the Texas A&M Health Science Cen...
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DiscGenics Announces Completion of Enrollment in U.S. Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of Discogenic Cell Therapy for Degenerative Disc Disease
DiscGenics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing regenerative cell-based therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with ...Full Article
AllOne Foundation Combats the Opioid Crisis
In 2018 alone, more than 4,400 people died from drug overdoses in Pennsylvania. While this number represents an 18 percent decrease from 2017, the number of drug-related death...Full Article
APhA Foundation Announces New Endowed Scholarship
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced that Theodore G. Tong, PharmD, FAPhA, has donated $35,000 to establish an eponymously named scholarship endowm...Full Article
The National Kidney Foundation and CVS Kidney Care have Joined Forces
to Promote Kidney Health
Organizations collaborate for National Kidney Month to raise awareness about the deadly disease The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and CVS Kidney Care, a CVS Health company...
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CDC Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Summary
This is a rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information and guidance as it becomes available. Updated March 26, 2020 CDC is responding to a pandemic of...Full Article
NIAAA at 50: A Legacy of Advancing Alcohol Research
On December 31, 1970, Congress passed the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, the legislation that created the National I...Full Article
Team’s Fabricated Corneal Tissue Allows Closer Look at How Eyes Heal
Cells called corneal keratocytes are innately programmed to come to the rescue if the eye is injured. This natural healing process sometimes fails, however, resulting in scarr...Full Article
Gene Hunting: The Power of Precision Medicine
MU researchers improve animal welfare by discovering genetic mutations that cause disease Humans and animals are made up of trillions of cells, and each cell contains DNA spe...Full Article
EVERSANA and Noom announce strategic partnership to improve therapy adherence and patient engagement for complex therap
EVERSANA™, the leading independent provider of commercial services to the life science industry, and Noom, the world's leading behavior change company, today announced a colla...Full Article
People Who Eat a Big Breakfast May Burn Twice as Many Calories
Eating a big breakfast rather than a large dinner may prevent obesity and high blood sugar, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical ...Full Article
DNA "Scissors" Could Cut Out the Alzheimer's Causing Gene in Mice
Scientists at Dongguk University successfully treated Alzheimer's disease in mice using the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. They used the tool to edit out the Alzheimer's causi...Full Article
American Pharmacists Association Announces 2020 APhA Fellows
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today announced the selection of the APhA Fellows as part of the 2020 APhA Awards and Honors Program. Honorees will be officially r...Full Article
Scaling the National Diabetes Prevention Program in Underserved Areas Through Pharmacies
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced it is building on the cooperative agreement entered into with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...Full Article
Pharmacists for Healthier Lives Offers Perspective on Opioid Crisis
Pharmacists for Healthier Lives (PfHL) - a coalition of pharmacy and healthcare organizations raising awareness of how pharmacists help people live their healthiest lives – to...Full Article
Cracking The Code To Society’s Most Feared Disease
Even more than cancer, there’s one disease most people fear. The thought of falling prey to Alzheimer’s disease and to the inevitable desecration of the mind is something that...Full Article
Keeping a stiff upper lip can hurt your health following death of a loved one
Keeping a stiff upper lip can hurt your health following death of a loved one Some people facing the loss of a loved one try to maintain their composure, but it's healthier t...Full Article