Pharmacology

Marijuana Use Associated With Narcolepsy In Adolescents

A 10-year retrospective study of 383 children is the first to examine the prevalence of positive drug screens in pediatric patients undergoing  multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) for narcolepsy. The results in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine showed that ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2015 - 4:01pm

Nicotine Supports Learning And Memory

A nicotine metabolite once thought to be inactive, cotinine, instead supports learning and memory, by amplifying the action of a primary chemical messenger involved in both, finds a new study. The new findings indicate cotinine makes brain receptors more s ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2015 - 10:31am

New HPV Vaccine 20 Percent More Effective

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) infect epithelial cells in the skin and mucosal tissue and can cause tumor-like growth. Some of these viruses also develop malignant tumors, especially cervical cancer in women, which kills around 4,000 women each year. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2015 - 6:33pm

Aflibercept Most Effective For Severe Diabetic Macular Edema In New Trial

Diabetes is a significant risk factor for developing eye diseases and the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness is diabetic retinopathy, which is caused by elevated blood sugar levels damaging the blood vessels of the retina and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 11:04am

What Antidepressants Do To Healthy People

Picture this: For the past two weeks you have felt continuously dejected. You have lost interest in what normally makes you happy. Perhaps you’ve slept poorly or lost your appetite. There is a risk that you have one of the most common maladies in the world ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2015 - 1:05pm

Efficacy, Safety Of Statins Exaggerated, Finds Review

Statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs prescribed to prevent heart attacks for the last two decades, are not as effective nor as safe as claimed, according to a review by Dr. David M. Diamond, a psychologist at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Uffe Ra ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2015 - 10:07pm

Is A 'Sobriety Pill' In Our Future?

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 24 2015 - 8:30am

Competition For Wealthy Elites Drives Up Antibiotic Prescription Rates

Competition between doctors' offices, urgent care centers and retail medical clinics that cater to wealthy elites often leads to an increase in the number of antibiotic prescriptions written per person, finds a new analysis. The number of physicians p ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2015 - 5:14pm

ANAVEX 2-73 Preserves Mitochondrial Integrity, Prevents Alzheimer's Disease In Mice

A pre-clinical study of ANAVEX 2-73 found that it prevents mitochondrial dysfunction and blocks resulting oxidative stress and apoptosis (cell death) in a nontransgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mitochondrial damages have been consisten ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2015 - 12:20am

Do Anesthetics Have Long-Term Impact On Child Brains?

Each year millions of infants, toddlers and preschool children require anesthesia or sedation for various procedures and a new review suggest caution about their use. A team of anesthesiology investigators and toxicologists writing in the New England Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2015 - 9:59am