Various synthetic cannabis products such as “spice” and K2 have been contaminated with a rat poison ingredient that affects the blood supply. Hundreds of people in 10 states in the USA have been diagnosed with symptoms like seizures and severe bleeding after using these products, as declared by US-FDA.
The AD-36 virus improves blood-sugar and cholesterol levels. Dhurandhar explained, “We think the virus infects fat cells, causing them to divide and grow faster than normal; your body may produce more fat cells, but that means there’s less fat left to travel to your liver and blood.”
Japanese Scientists unravel a molecular apparatus via which antibodies control gut bacteria to conserve health. They observed that immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies released by the intestines can influence how bacteria express their genes.
A phase 2 study on BAN2401, a monoclonal antibody that hits soluble amyloid beta oligomers, showed that it limits cognitive decline in patients with slight cognitive injury or premature Alzheimer’s dementia on two scales and removed brain amyloid in 81% of patients in the trial.
Novartis has renewed its memorandum of understanding with the World Health Organization (WHO) to lengthen its drug donation for Egaten® (triclabendazole) to 2022 and continues its war against liver fluke. WHO lists Egaten as the only medicine for fascioliasis and also includes it in the Model List of Essential Medicines.
System C has signed a contract to develop a collective child health information system in the South West of England. 708,000 child health records from South Gloucester, Bristol, Somerset and North Somerset, Devon, Torbay, Plymouth and Cornwall will be put to use by its CarePlus software.
Risk of Alzheimer's disease increases with reduction in levels of plasmalogens, a class of lipids produced by the liver that constitute cell membranes in the brain, confirms new research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 by Mitchel A. Kling, MD, an associate professor of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Biophysicists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have used an infrared sensor to discover which active agents influence the structure of proteins rapidly and easily and calculate the amount of time the change persists.
Cone beam imaging, a new stroke imaging technology was showcased at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 15th Annual Meeting in a presented study which aims at preventing nearly an hour of delay in patient care, providing them with the prospect of complete recovery.
Healthy.io, of Israel, gains FDA 510(k) approval for Dip.io, it's domestic urinalysis kit that transforms a smartphone into a clinical-standard diagnostic machine. It is the first and only smartphone-based urine analysis to be cleared as a Class 2 device.
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