A systematic review revealed the inadequacy of adverse event data in clinical trials of probiotics and prebiotics, rendering it difficult to draw broad conclusions with regards to the safety of interventions to modify gut micro-organisms. These randomized trials assessed probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics, which are products that combine probiotics and probiotics.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT which introduced The Certified Health IT Product List Data Challenge in the last week, has initiated a contest for innovative ideas that highlights how its vast and meticulous specs can enhance service to hospitals and health systems.
The CQC rated the South Doc Services Limited as ‘outstanding’ in a report on 11 July. The service operates virtual primary care services for the MyHealthcare GP federation, functioning at several hubs across Birmingham with more than 47 GP practices under its umbrella catering to around 300,000 registered patients. The report praised how the “service used technology to improve treatment and to support patients’ independence”.
A scientists team from the University of Sheffield have discovered that the human pathogen named Staphylococcus aureus especially MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) uses non-threatening bacteria in the skin to initiate infection.
China opens up its pharmaceutical market to its rather hostile neighbor, India while Beijing and Washington have a tiff over President Donald Trump’s renewed warning of added tariffs on Chinese imports worth $200 billion.
$1.5 million was raised in a seed investment round to support the development of its futuristic automated external defibrillators by Hearthero, a medtech startup.
Nowadays fish pedicures have become a popular form of pedicure where fish eat dead skin off a person’s feat. But a woman in her 20’s from New York approached a doctor when her toenails started becoming abnormal. She told the doctor that she had been having the issue for around 6 months, from the moment she had the fish pedicure. There was no pain but a few breaks in her toenails, due to which the bottom portion of her nails got separated from the upper portion.
Recent scientific data revealed that the nonadherence to hepatitis B medicines increases the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis followed by mortality.
Current HIV drugs usually act on enzymes needed by the virus throughout its survival. But no drug targets the outermost layer of the virus named the capsid, which protects the genetic material delivered into the host.
A New York-based company named Siga Technologies has won FDA approval for its oral formulation of tecovirimat, used to treat smallpox, in case there occurs an outbreak.
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