Rising tide in adverse drug reactions
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission. The trend is connected to a rising tide of multiple… read more.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission. The trend is connected to a rising tide of multiple… read more.
The findings suggest that methods developed in high-income settings to check kidney function are not accurate for many people in Africa. Researchers from the African Research on Kidney… read more.
Existing gaps and serious limitations concerning the information in vaccine product labels makes it challenging for healthcare providers to know when to recommend vaccination to pregnant women. A… read more.
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States, are at significant risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke,… read more.
Offering intensive, weekly telephone-based cessation counseling along with nicotine replacement for people who smoke and who were undergoing screening for lung cancer resulted in over a two-fold greater… read more.
People with hematologic malignancies—or blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—have an impaired immune system due to their disease and its treatment, putting them at risk of… read more.
Speaking the same language as their physician can make for healthier patients, new research using ICES data confirms. Frail, older patients admitted to hospital who received care from… read more.
People who have viewed tobacco content on social media are more than twice as likely than non-viewers to report using tobacco and, among those who have never used… read more.
Researchers at University of Limerick in Ireland have developed a new modelling approach to pharmaceutical manufacturing that could reduce the time required to bring v. Professor Gavin Walker… read more.
The median age for receiving a bladder cancer diagnosis is 73, and a significant number of those living with the disease are in their 70s and 80s. A longstanding stereotype… read more.
A Michigan Medicine study finds that people with two pediatric-onset neurodevelopmental disorders are prescribed opioids at significantly higher rates than those without the conditions, raising concerns over addiction,… read more.
Opioids are the gold standard for treatment of chronic and acute pain; however, their use may result in significant gastrointestinal side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and constipation. The… read more.
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