The USA’s 2022 Fentanyl Epidemic: Headlines have been full of reports on COVID-related fatalities, but there’s something as contagious that’s responsible for even more deaths in the US: the fentanyl epidemic. In 2021 alone, 41,587 people aged 18 to 45 died due to fentanyl overdose. In the same time period, and for the same age […]
Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS £300 million every year – 40% of Brits admit binning unused medications, potentially wasting up to an estimated 445 million prescriptions a year. More than a third (36%) of people admit to taking potentially harmful medications, as a result of not checking their use-by date 4 in 10 people […]
Coronavirus booster vaccination also protects cancer patients: People with cancer are often given immunosuppressive treatments that weaken their innate immune defences. This puts them at high risk of severe disease, should they become infected by Coronavirus. A study conducted by MedUni Vienna has now shown that many of these people can build up sufficient immunity […]
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Scientists find link between antibiotics and colon cancer: Scientists from the University of Aberdeen, NHS Grampian and Queen’s University Belfast have found that antibiotic use may increase the risk of developing colon cancer, potentially more so among younger people. The study of almost 40,000 people compared antibiotic use and lifestyle factors of those who had […]
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New data on drug metabolism and distribution in the eye: One of the most comprehensive ocular pharmacokinetic studies including metabolism so far provides valuable information for ocular drug development. Severe visual illnesses are increasing in our society, and effective treatments are missing for diseases as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. Both industry and […]
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Keeping up with the first law of robotics: A new photonic effect for accelerated drug discovery: Physicists at the University of Bath and University of Michigan demonstrate a new photonic effect in semiconducting nanohelices. A new photonic effect in semiconducting helical particles with nanoscale dimensions has been discovered by an international team of scientists led […]
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Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs do not seem to protect people with rheumatoid arthritis against Parkinson’s disease. The autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis has been associated with a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in previous studies, with antirheumatic drugs as one possible explanation. However, most of the disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) were not associated with the risk […]
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Phage therapy to fight bacteria: New research from the University of Exeter has moved a step closer to harnessing viruses to fight bacterial infection, reducing the threat of antibiotic resistance. A growing number of infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and salmonellosis, are developing antibiotic resistance, which means they becoming harder to treat, resulting in higher death […]
An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the University of Melbourne and Monash University receive $4.2 million to establish a six-month clinical trial lead by Northern Hospital in collaboration with Oxford University. Heparin, a widely used blood-thinning drug to treat or prevent blood clots […]
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Cannabis in medicine: enormous therapeutic potential but reliable studies still lacking: For more than twenty years now, international research into the endocannabinoid system in the human body has been seeking to understand the mode of action of cannabis and its constituents. There is ample evidence of therapeutic success for the use of cannabinoids for indications […]