Pharmacology

No More Necessary Evil: Reduced Risk Of Hearing Loss After Antibiotics

In 2002 on Christmas Eve, two-year-old Bryce Faber was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a deadly. The toddler's treatment, in addition to surgery, included massive amounts of radiation followed by even more massive amounts of antibiotics, and it no doub ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2015 - 7:30pm

12 Year Study Confirms Measles Vaccines Are Safe

A 12-year study of two measles-containing vaccines has found that seven main adverse outcomes were unlikely after either vaccine. The study conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center included children ages 12 to 23 months from January 2000 thr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 1:38pm

Blueberries Lower Blood Pressure In Post-menopausal Women

Hypertension- high blood pressure- affects up to 80 million people in the United States and cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death so lowering blood pressure has the potential to save lives. For most people, exercise and diet are enough and a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2015 - 11:02am

With Teixobactin, A New Class Of Antibiotics Is Here – And Why There May Be More To Come

Food for drug-resistant bacteria. AthanArk, CC BY-NC-ND By Angelika Gründling, Imperial College London ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 12 2015 - 9:00am

Review Of Trials Dispute Warning That Statins Impair Memory And Cognitive Functioning

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently warned that statins could affect the memory, attention span and other cognitive abilities of people who it drug to control high cholesterol. Despite cultural claims in the US that the FDA is too liberal in app ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 12:19pm

Oral Immunotherapy As Wheat Allergy Treatment For Children

A small pilot study has shown that most of the children in a new oral immunotherapy treatment program were able to eat 100 grams of wheat bread without side effects, a promising way to mitigate the risk of accidental ingestion by people with this allergy.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 1:00pm

10 Percent Of Heart Patients Taking Aspirin As Therapy Shouldn't Be

Over 10 percent of patients using aspirin therapy for primary cardiovascular disease prevention shouldn't be doing so, according to a recent paper.  They were likely either inappropriately prescribed it or do it over the counter, according to a new s ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2015 - 9:00am

Drug Culture: Those “Poppers” Might Not Be What You Think

It is well-known that “huffing”- inhaling organic solvents or propellants to achieve a “high”- is extremely dangerous, but less well known is that newer replacement products primarily used by homosexual men, called “poppers”, actually contain harmful solve ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2015 - 4:08pm

Hepatitis C Drugs Show Patients Benefit Most From Treatment Choices

By Josh Bloom and Henry Miller The development of new drugs is among the riskiest of business ventures. It now takes 10-15 years for a pharmaceutical company to get a new drug approved, and on average the cost exceeds $2.5 billion. To establish its safety ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Feb 3 2015 - 1:28pm

Opiods For Chronic Pain- Where's The Evidence?

A new white paper finds little to no evidence for the effectiveness of opioid drugs in the treatment of long-term chronic pain, despite the explosive recent growth in the use of such drugs.  The paper, which constitutes the final report of a seven-member p ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 9:00am