September 18, 2024 by University of Helsinki Credit: Pixabay/Gerd AltmannAbout one-third of patients with schizophrenia do not respond to conventional medications, leaving them with one effective treatment option: clozapine. Clozapine’s most serious side effect, a life-threatening drop in white blood cell levels, has been effectively controlled through strict monitoring. However, recent findings show that the...
Written by Alice Perlowski, MD, MA, FACC | Reviewed by Sophie Vergnaud, MDUpdated on June 27, 2022 The best time to take blood pressure medication is at the same time every day.There’s some debate in the medical community about whether blood pressure medication works better in the morning or evening. Some experts recommend taking it...
Written by Sandy P. Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS | Reviewed by Stacia Woodcock, PharmDUpdated on June 5, 2024 Key takeaways: You can take most medications on the plane when you travel. But there are some exceptions. Depending on your destination, you may want to bring more medication than you expect to use during the trip. Keep...
Individual patients with autoimmune diseases can receive tailored medication by computationally treating their so-called digital twins with thousands of medications. This is according to an international study published in Genome Medicine by researchers from Karolinska Institutet. What does your publication show?“It is possible to construct a digital twin of an individual patient’s autoimmune disease. This...
Bertrand Herer, MD For researchers involved with sleep disorders, developing a pharmacologic treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a bit like searching for the holy grail. P K Schweitzer and colleagues have published the results of the randomized MARIPOSA study assessing a combination of two medicinal products known as AD109, one of the products...
by Alison Poulton, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that can affect all stages of life. Medication is not the only treatment, but it is often the treatment that can make the most obvious difference to a person who has difficulties focusing attention, sitting still or not acting on...
by Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some older people struggle with remembering to take their medications or organizing them effectively. Adult children, like yourself, can help by taking steps to monitor and update medication lists. Doing this can help prevent potential health complications, while also providing peace of mind for both you...
by National Jewish Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainPatients with atopic dermatitis, the most common inflammatory skin disease in the general population, often have vascular changes that lead to a loss of proteins in their skin and symptoms like oozing, bleeding, infection and redness. In a recent study, researchers at National Jewish Health tested a medication...
Casey Clark A new study sheds some light on using metformin as a long COVID prevention tool. It seems like every time you turn on the news or open your phone, new information about COVID-19 pops up. Most of this information is pertinent to the latest variant EG.5, also called “Eris,” but recently, other more...
Meg Burke, MDSophie Vergnaud, MDWritten by Meg Burke, MD | Reviewed by Sophie Vergnaud, MDUpdated on May 12, 2022 Key takeaways: Some medications (and foods) can cause an abnormal urine color.Urine color typically returns to normal when you stop the medication.One example is metronidazole, an antibiotic. It colors urine brown. Tom Merton/OJO Images via Getty...
