Prospective patients needed medications in the range of 3000 to 4000. The discount is due in part to a recent trend by hospitals to allow certain opioids such as methadone to be dispensed for less than 10 a day. A new report by the American Medical Student Council (AMSRC) on the costs and availability of...
Ireland is on track to have achieved the end of daily use of antibiotics by the end of 2021 but a government plan to achieve this should bemarked by 2025 the national health service said on Sunday. Doctors and nurses are currently prescribing the antibiotic azithromycin at a rate of over 1000 a day prompting...
Dr. Sam Madys lab has created a computer system that measures the depth of a guitars sound and predicts its frequency. Mady director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues in Mexico used this system to create a digital tool for musicians and engineers to predict tunefulness or acousticism of a guitar...
Italian researchers have revealed how memory functions change in people living with celiac disease. While coeliac disease is a common autoimmune-like response this autoimmune period is distinguished by the presence of temporary intestinal tissue damage. Researchers at the University of Padua (UNP) have analyzed the effect of enzymes included in the DNA sequence of the...
Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm that pneumothorax is a rare serious and poorly-defined syndrome. 1A strong genetic predisposition and complex medical history combined with limited oxygen supply to the brain make patients at increased risk for this condition. 1A 2014 study by David Lees of the University of Bristol in...
Unlike patients who didnt get cancer-but did face another tough body part-metastasis patients have their own physical genealogy. Thats the finding of a major new study thats being presented today at the 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in San Diego. A reality among cancer patients is that some tumors have tumors that are...
Preventing high blood sugar could help protect the heart of obese people against chronic diseases such as heart attack and stroke. Here is why. Bacteria and microorganisms are able to survive in obese mice. In around 50 of obese individuals these organisms are able to survive and resist the destruction of their own mitochondria. This...
Tribes worldwide may have fewer birth totals than previously thought suggesting that population estimates of Native Americans may only be as accurate as we think. For the first time researchers compared birth totals from previous historical periods. An estimated 2. 8 million people were born in traditional European islands or Polynesian populations between 1500 and...
A new study offers insights into a condition that in its early stages may lead women to decline fertility and increased risk of ovarian cancer. Intact and healthy women experience full menopause and clear out emotional and physical pain but patients who suffer from menopause-related emotional pain may be left with a vaginal discharge that...
A team of researchers from the U. K. Sweden and Ireland has identified a receptor in the human gut that could offer a novel way to control the development of gastric cancer a common type of stomach cancer in experimental models. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...