Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes inflammation in the colon which can lead to symptoms such as diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and abdominal pain. There are a number of drugs that a person with UC should avoid as they may make their symptoms worse. Ulcerative colitis causes a person’s immune...
Austin Ulrich, PharmD, BCACP May 24, 2021, 12:17PM (PT) Key takeaways: The manufacturer sets medication expiration dates, and they do not always mean that the medication stops working after that date. Some medications can be harmful or cause health risks if taken after their expiration date. Storing your medications as instructed on their labels can...
WILEY A new study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology ¬provides insights on how common hospitalized patients develop liver injury from taking different medications. When investigators analyzed the records of 156,570 hospitalized patients, they found 499 cases of drug-induced liver injury (DILI), for an incidence of 0.32%. Anti-infective agents, cancer medications, and nonsteroidal...
WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH February 22, 2021 – Widely used medications for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) – also known as enlarged prostate – may be associated with a small, but significant increase in the probability of developing heart failure, suggests a study in The Journal of Urology®, Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is pub lished in...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have developed a machine-learning method that crunches massive amounts of data to help determine which existing medications could improve outcomes in diseases for which they are not prescribed. The intent of this work is to speed up drug repurposing, which is not a new concept – think Botox...
Among women with breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or melanoma, those who were taking cholesterol-lowering medications, were less likely to die from cancer, according to an analysis published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. The analysis included 20,046,11,719 and 6,430 women in Australia who were diagnosed with breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and melanoma, respectively, from 2003...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IMAGE: RESULTS FROM A POLL OF ADULTS OVER 50 ABOUT MEDICATION USE AND MEDICATION REVIEWS. Two-thirds of older adults rely on at least two prescription drugs, and more than half take two or more non-prescription drugs or supplements. And two in ten take five or more prescription drugs. Some...
CELL PRESS Researchers at Columbia University have developed AwareDX–Analysing Women At Risk for Experiencing Drug toXicity–a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts differences in adverse drug effects between men and women by analyzing 50 years’ worth of reports in an FDA database. The algorithm, described September 22 in the journal Patterns, automatically corrects for the...
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM) IMAGE: PROF. OLIVER LIELEG AND CEREN KIMNA ARE CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON NANOPARTICLES THAT RELEASE DRUGS PRECISELY INTO THE AFFECTED CELLS. Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One reason is that they reach not only the unhealthy cells for which they are intended, but also reach and have an impact on healthy...
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LUNG CANCER DENVER–Combined use of aspirin, statins, and metformin is associated with decreased lung cancer incidence and mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO). The JTO is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. All three medications are...
