Quadriceps 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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