For years, physiologists looking closely at bones noticed something puzzling. It was a microscopic prison break, blood cells slipping unseen from the enclosed depths of the bone marrow into the general circulation. “We have the bone marrow, which produces the blood cells, and when you need them, you need them urgently. But how do they...
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Using Genetics of Human Fat Cells to Predict Response to Anti-Diabetes Drugs
In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, a team of researchers led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have demonstrated—using fat cells derived from human stem cells—that individual genetic variation can be used to...
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Antiepileptic drugs linked to increased hospital stays in persons with Alzheimer’s disease
People with Alzheimer’s disease who used antiepileptic drugs had a higher number of accumulated hospital stays than people with Alzheimer’s disease who did not use antiepileptics, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The results were published in the Journal of American Medical Directors Association. During a two-year follow-up, persons who...
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How long do people need to be monitored after fainting?
For the first time, physicians in the Emergency Department (ED) have evidence-based recommendations on how best to catch the life-threatening conditions that make some people faint. New research published in Circulation suggests that low-risk patients can be safely sent home by a physician after spending two hours in the ED, and medium and high-risk patients...
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Another blood pressure drug, irbesartan, recalled over cancer-causing impurity
A drug company on Friday announced the recall of eight more lots of irbesartan blood pressure medication after testing revealed the drugs contained trace amounts of a carcinogen. Prinston Pharmaceuticals recalled one lot of irbesartan tablets and seven lots of irbesartan HCTZ tablets. The medication contained unacceptable levels of the probable carcinogen nitrosodiethylamine, or NDEA,...
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What role does the immune system play in hypertension?
Millions of people in the United States and across the world have hypertension, a condition that, without proper management, can contribute to the risk of heart disease and stroke. woman getting her blood pressure checked Specialist white blood cells play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure, a new study finds. Data from...
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Fighting deadly drug resistant bacteria in intestines with new antibiotic
A new antibiotic developed by a Flinders University researcher is being heralded as a breakthrough in the war against a drug resistant superbug. IMAGE: WHEN DOSES OF A NEW ANTIBIOTIC CALLED RAMIZOL WERE GIVEN TO HAMSTERS INFECTED WITH A LETHAL DOSE OF THE BACTERIA, A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF HAMSTERS SURVIVED THE INFECTION. view more CREDIT:...
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ToeMate Nail Soak Fungus Treatment Kits
Penetration For the medication to penetrate and reach the infection through nail keratin (which absorbs water and repels water insoluble drugs) the treatment must be at least partially water soluble. The most effective way is to immerse the infected nails in an antimicrobial that is dissolved in water to give nails absorption time. Of the...