In April, Armand Balboni received an anxious call from Tokyo. On the line was a contact from Fujifilm Toyama, the Japanese multinational, who told him that problems were cropping up with a plan to ship 30,000 tablets of the drug known as favipiravir to Canada for a clinical trial. “It was their head of business...
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Four of ten adults worldwide have functional gastrointestinal disorders
For every ten adults in the world, four suffer from functional gastrointestinal disorders of varying severity. This is shown by a study of more than 73,000 people in 33 countries. University of Gothenburg scientists are among those now presenting these results. Functional gastrointestinal disorders, FGIDs, is a collective term for chronic disorders in the gastrointestinal...
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Study confirms diabetes type 3c as early manifestation of pancreatic cancer
by The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre As biomedical sciences incorporate increasingly sophisticated methodologies and technologies, the understanding of diseases improves. Diabetes is a clear example, since new classifications are being added to the traditional classification into type 1 and type 2 diabetes; these new classifications are based on genetic and molecular characteristics that improve...
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Everything you need to know about ascariasis
Ascariasis occurs when a type of roundworm known as Ascaris lumbricoides infects the small intestine. Though common across the globe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that ascariasis is not common in the United States. Read on to learn more about the causes, symptoms, treatment, and outlook for an ascariasis infection. What is ascariasis? Ascariasis is...