It is well known that eating healthily helps us to maintain a stable and healthy body weight, as well as improving energy levels and reducing our risk of various diseases. However, for most of us, making healthy dietary choices is easier said than done. So what’s the best way to lose weight and stick to...
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Whitening Strips Could Be Killing the Collagen in Your Teeth
If you’ve sought out teeth-whitening products, you might want to keep in mind how they might be impacting your dental health. New research presented at the annual American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting in Orlando, Florida, sheds light on how hydrogen peroxide — used in the over-the-counter whitening products you can find at any drugstore — might be damaging your teeth. Specifically, the...
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FDA Warns Of Pre-owned, Unauthorized Medical Test Strips Sold Through Amazon, eBay, And Craigslist
The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public against using medical strips not authorized for sale in the United States. Some sellers have started offering medical test strips through online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist. While many of these products claim to have the same efficacy as those available in pharmacies and...
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32 Percent Of Gluten-Free Restaurant Food Contain Gluten: Study
A new study has found that about 32 percent of restaurants serving gluten-free menu may be untrue to the promise, making people with celiac disease vulnerable. The study reported that there is still a higher chance of being served with gluten food even when the menu indicates it is gluten-free. Eating Out Can Be Dangerous...
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Swallowable Vibrating Pill Shakes Faecis to Relieve Constipation
GI, MEDICINE Constipation is often a hard problem to solve, typically requiring medications to get things moving down there. Medications have side effects, nor do they always work as is hoped for. We, being fans of medical gadgetry, are glad to see that a drug-free pill has been developed capable of shacking up the large intestine and motivating the...
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Drug interaction causes hypotension
by Leigh Macmillan, Vanderbilt University The commonly used muscle relaxant tizanidine can lower blood pressure. Tizanidine is metabolized by the enzyme CYP1A2, and concurrent use of tizanidine and a CYP1A2 inhibitor, such as ciprofloxacin, greatly increases tizanidine plasma concentrations. Despite package insert warnings, tizanidine and CYP1A2 inhibitors are commonly co-prescribed. Cecilia Chung, MD, and colleagues used...
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New advances to improve the genetic diagnosis of Opitz C syndrome
by University of Barcelona Opitz C syndrome (OCS), an ultra-rare disease that causes serious physical and intellectual disabilities, has an heterogeneous genetic base that makes its medical diagnostic and therapeutic intervention difficult, according to a new study by professors Daniel Grinberg, Susanna Balcells and Roser Urreizti, from the Group on Human Molecular Genetics of the of the Faculty of Biology of the University...
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Patients on immunotherapies should consume more fiber, fewer probiotics
By Liji Thomas, MD Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. A new study has found that taking probiotics could drastically reduce the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy. Probiotics are freely available without prescription and are not regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration. On the other hand, patients on a fiber-rich diet showed a five-fold increase in response. The study was presented on April 2,...
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Seizures Could Be A Side Effect Of E-Cigarette Use: Here Are The Warning Signs To Watch Out For
U.S. health regulators issued an announcement about a health risk possibly linked to use of e-cigarettes that mostly affects young users. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it will investigate a possible link between vaping and seizures after receiving reports of seizures among users of e-cigarettes. Possible Side Effect Of E-Cigarette Use Recent studies already showed that e-cigarette use can cause DNA damage and cause cancer....
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Topical corticosteroids associated with higher risk for type 2 diabetes
Yuki M.F. Andersen, M.D., from the University of Copenhagen in Hellerup, Denmark, and colleagues assessed whether topical corticosteroid use in real-world settings is associated with an increased risk for T2D among two cohorts (115,218 adults with new-onset T2D in a Danish cohort and 54,944 adults in a U.K. cohort). The researchers found that topical corticosteroid use was significantly associated with T2D in the Danish (adjusted...