Adam Marcus July 15, 2022 A staff sergeant steps onto a C-130 transport plane from Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, joining nearly 100 other fighters on a 13-hour flight to a US military base in South Korea. As the jumbo jet roars into the sky, she touches a button on a small wristband...
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Live Updates: January 2021 Drug Price Increases
by Tori Marsh December 21, 2020, 10:10AM Amidst the worst of the pandemic, drug prices continue to rise. Each year, in January and July, manufacturers raise the list price of their medications, and we predict that this year will be no different. Every day this January, the GoodRx Research Team will be tracking price increases...
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Innovative approach offers option for treating upper tract urothelial cancer
Treatment of low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer usually involves radical surgery to remove the kidney and ureter, highlighting the need for improved treatments. An international team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reports in the journal The Lancet Oncology that an innovative form of local chemotherapy using a mitomycin-containing reverse thermal gel offers...
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Older Americans are risking coronavirus exposure to get their medications
It’s been nearly a month since the U.S. government began urging older Americans to stay home to avoid exposure to the new coronavirus. That means many older adults may be running out of their usual 30-day supplies of medication. As the pandemic continues to spread, they increasingly face a difficult challenge: how to get the...
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U.S. pharmacists can now test for coronavirus. They could do more if government allowed it
by Steven W. Chen, The Conversation As Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus climbed to one of the highest in the world, its doctors made a plea to other countries: Manage the pandemic in the community, not in hospitals and emergency rooms. When people with COVID-19 show up at hospitals, they can spread the...
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Pharmacy assessment of penicillin allergies finds safe, less-expensive options
by ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) A pharmacy-driven assessment found more than half of patients with reported penicillin allergies were able to take antibiotics from the same drug class rather than resorting to substitutes that may be more costly, have more side effects and have other downsides, according to research presented at the ASHP...
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What are hives, the common skin condition that gives you itchy, red bumps?
by Rodney Sinclair, The Conversation Have you ever wondered who buys those huge boxes of antihistamines prominently displayed all year round in your local pharmacy? If antihistamines were just used for hay fever, you’d think sales would be good in spring, but pretty mediocre for the rest of the year. Many of the antihistamines sold in Australia are actually for hives,...
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Scientists enlist tiny biomagnets for faster drug discovery
by University of Toronto What started as a hallway conversation between colleagues is now an “engine for the discovery of new therapeutic targets in cells” thanks to Medicine by Design, says Shana Kelley, a University Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Kelley’s lab was developing a portable, chip-like...
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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...
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Can I still use prescription drugs after they expire?
The Harvard Medical School republished a well-worn article in August that recounted a 1985 study in which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looked to pinpoint expiration dates for more than 100 drugs in an effort to unburden the U.S. military from some of the exorbitant annual costs of replacing its pharmaceuticals. Credit: CC0 Public Domain...
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