UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Researchers have developed a faster, cheaper way to coat liquid medication, an invention that could improve how drugs are delivered in the body. The new encapsulation technology, developed by engineers at the University of Waterloo, uses gravity and other natural forces to wrap drops as they fall through a thin layer of...
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Drug treats inflammation associated with genetic heart disease
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE When young athletes experiences sudden cardiac death as they run down the playing field, it’s usually due to arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), an inherited heart disease. Now, Johns Hopkins researchers have shed new light on the role of the immune system in the progression of ACM and, in the process, discovered a new...
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SYSTEM AIMS TO ALERT YOU ABOUT DRUG-DRUG INTERACTIONS
OCTOBER 17TH, 2019POSTED BY MATT SWAYNE-PENN STATE A machine learning system may be able to warn doctors and patients about possible negative side effects from drug-drug interactions. The more medications a patient takes, the greater the likelihood that interactions between those drugs could trigger negative side effects, including long-term organ damage or even death. For the study, researchers designed an algorithm...
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How to talk to your teenagers about drugs
by Emma Maynard, The Conversation Credit: Vlachaslau Govorkov/Shutterstock.com The UK has seen a sharp increase in teenage drug use in the last few years: the NHS reports that 37% of 15-year-olds have used drugs, and that deaths resulting from drug use are at their highest since records began in 1993. Meanwhile, thousands of children are being drawn into drug dealing...
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Drug rediscovery protocol allows doctors to prescribe anticancer drugs outside of their approved use
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A large team of researchers affiliated with institutions across the Netherlands has begun what they call a Drug Rediscovery protocol—a clinical trial of sorts that involves giving cancer patients anticancer drugs that are not typically used for their type of cancer. In their paper published in the journal Nature,...
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How to talk to your teenagers about drugs
by Emma Maynard, The Conversation The UK has seen a sharp increase in teenage drug use in the last few years: the NHS reports that 37% of 15-year-olds have used drugs, and that deaths resulting from drug use are at their highest since records began in 1993. Meanwhile, thousands of children are being drawn into drug dealing through “county...
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Many cancer drugs aim at the wrong molecular targets
Analysis using CRISPR gene-editing technology suggests that drugs’ mechanism of action are misunderstood. Heidi Ledford Many experimental cancer drugs might be succeeding in unintended ways, finds a study that used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing to investigate how such drugs interact with malignant cells. An analysis of ten drugs — including seven now in clinical trials —...
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36% of proton pump inhibitor prescriptions for older adults may be unnecessary
by Enrique Rivero, University of California, Los Angeles One in eight older adults was prescribed proton pump inhibitor drugs, which are used to treat gastric ulcers or to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding in those taking blood thinners. About 36 percent of those prescriptions were potentially unnecessary, a study found, primarily because people took them far longer...
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Nanodiamonds Cross Blood-Brain Barrier to Image Inside, Deliver Drugs
MEDGADGET EDITORSMATERIALS, MEDICINE, NANOMEDICINE, NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY The blood-brain barrier is nearly impenetrable to most drugs and contrast agents, making it difficult to diagnose and treat diseases afflicting the brain. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now developed a way of using nanodiamonds coated with a biopolymer to penetrate through the blood-brain...
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The technology behind Bitcoin may improve the medications of the future
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES BLOCKCHAIN. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a prototype of an app that may potentially prescribe the optimal dose of medicine for the individual patient, as well as prevent counterfeit products. Big data. Machine Learning. Internet of Things. Blockchain. Futuristic concepts from the world of technology will...