Current hepatitis C virus testing guidelines miss too many cases, study suggest
A review of blood samples for nearly 5,000 patients seen at The Johns Hopkins Hospital Emergency Department suggests that federal guidelines for hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening may be missing up to a...
View ArticleFirst widely available Zika test OK'd for emergency use
The first commercial test for the Zika virus has been cleared for emergency use in the U.S. and could be available by next week.
View ArticleFrance to tighten up drug trial rules after fatal incident
France's health minister presented a plan on Monday to tighten the rules regarding human drug trials following an experimental test that killed a volunteer in January.
View ArticleModeling the correct doses for disease-fighting drugs
In treating diseases with drugs, dosing is critical; too little is ineffective, while too much can be lethal. Colorado State University's Brad Reisfeld takes a mathematical approach to achieving...
View ArticleOne in five opioid users also might be abusing seizure drug: study
(HealthDay)—Opioid medication users may be abusing and misusing the seizure and nerve pain drug gabapentin, a new study finds.
View ArticleResearch on new, rapid screening test identifies potential therapies against...
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Clinical Center and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have...
View ArticleFlakka is a dangerous drug, but it doesn't turn you into a zombie
Stories of horrific crimes resulting from drug use have been propagated by the media for over a century. Such stories began with cocaine in 1914 and were followed by "reefer madness" stories in the...
View ArticlePatients with severe mental illnesses slip between cracks in HIV testing
People with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with psychosis may be up to 15 more likely than the general population to be HIV positive, but are only marginally more likely to be...
View ArticleScientists aim to reduce animals killed in drug testing
That's the hope of Associate Professor Noriyuki Yanaka and researchers at Hiroshima University who have developed a non-invasive way to assess the anti-inflammatory properties of fortified health foods...
View ArticleNewborn screening tests approved
(HealthDay)—A set of screening tests designed to detect four rare metabolic disorders in newborns has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
View ArticleScreening, HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer: FDA
(HealthDay)—Women can reduce their risk of cervical cancer through vaccination and screening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
View Article'Human-on-a-chip' could end animal testing
She was just another beagle that Lawrence Vernetti had scheduled to take part in another drug experiment.
View ArticleHelping drug users get back to work, not random drug testing, should be our...
Drug testing people on welfare, as proposed in this year's federal budget, is a blunt way of tackling problems drug users face when looking for work.
View ArticleFDA, CDC warn certain lead tests may produce too-low results
U.S. health agencies on Wednesday warned that certain blood tests for lead poisoning may give results lower than the actual level of lead.
View ArticleNew cancer drug can prevent reactions to common airborne allergens
A cancer drug for patients with certain types of leukemia and lymphoma can also prevent reactions to some of the most common airborne allergies, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study. The...
View ArticleWhy antibiotics fail—biologists correct a flaw in the way bacterial...
When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay—standardized in 1961 by the World...
View ArticleQuadriceps exercise relieves pain in knee osteoarthritis
(HealthDay)—A quadriceps isometric contraction exercise method is effective for relieving pain in knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a study published online May 25 in the International Journal of...
View ArticleNew consensus document for appropriate use of drug testing in clinical...
A new Consensus Document from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) provides practical, evidence-based recommendations on the use of drug testing for identification, diagnosis, treatment,...
View ArticleDoctors and nurses can't always tell if someone's drunk or on drugs, and...
Bob has arrived at the emergency department at 10am on a Tuesday after breaking several fingers slamming his hand in a car door. Bob is quite anxious; he speaks quickly and paces around. When asked to...
View ArticleTB: Genetic drug resistance tests as good in gauging treatment outcome, death...
Novel molecular tests are gaining popularity as a rapid way to detect genetic mutations that render tuberculosis impervious to drugs. Yet, how well these new tests fare in gauging risk of actual drug...
View ArticleTime for a makeup refresh?
(HealthDay)—You love a certain shade of lipstick, but do you know how long ago you bought this particular tube of it?
View ArticleBrief primary care intervention cut risky drug use among Latinos by 40 percent
New research finds that brief interventions in a primary care clinic can reduce patients' risky substance use by 4.5 days per month—a 40 percent decline among the Latino patients surveyed—compared with...
View ArticleIs evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the...
The government's announcement in the May 2017 budget of a trial of random drug testing of 5,000 Youth Allowance and Newstart recipients has been almost universally criticised. While the prime minister...
View ArticleUnintentional drug use continues among molly users in EDM party scene
Electronic dance music (EDM) parties have historically been high-risk scenes for use of a variety of psychoactive substances. Studies over the past couple of years have found nightclub and festival...
View ArticleStudy suggests epilepsy drug can be used to treat form of dwarfism
A drug used to treat conditions such as epilepsy has been shown in lab tests at The University of Manchester to significantly improve bone growth impaired by a form of dwarfism.
View ArticleRapid hepatitis C testing may help better screen young adults
Routine and rapid hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among young adults who use injection drugs improves life expectancy and may provide a good use of limited resources, according to new research out of...
View ArticleThe benefits and dangers when genetic testing companies partner with orphan...
Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing firms to identify individuals with rare diseases, in a trend that is raising...
View ArticleOrgans on microchips for safe drug testing
Miniaturized organs on a chip enable drug tests prior to application to humans. At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the team of Professor Ute Schepers has developed such an organ-on-a-chip...
View ArticleFDA gives green light to Roche cancer test
The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to Roche for its FoundationOne CDx personalised diagnostic cancer test, the Swiss group said Monday.
View ArticleActivating MSc glutamatergic neurons found to cause mice to eat less
(Medical Xpress)—A trio of researchers working at the State University of New York has found that artificially stimulating neurons that exist in the medial septal complex in mouse brains caused test...
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