Many UK patients with gonorrhea are being prescribed antibiotics that are no longer recommended for treating the infection by their family doctor, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
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Regenerative Medicine highlights the immunological challenges that lie ahead for RegenMed
The journal Regenerative Medicine has published a special focus issue on methods to avoid immune rejection in regenerative medicine.
Save Our Sons campaign arrives in Canberra to lobby Prime Minister
A group campaigning for increased support for the rare muscle-wasting condition Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy takes its message directly to Tony Abbott.
Master orchestrator of the genome is discovered, UB stem cell scientists report
PLOS ONE paper describes how a single nuclear protein functions like an orchestra conductor, programming the ‘symphony of biology’One of developmental biology’s most perplexing questions concerns…
Diabetes-Specific Health Plan Boosts Medication Adherence (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — But benefits were modest at 1-year follow-up.
Spinal injury researchers hope cyclotron can advance diagnosis
A former league footballer who became a quadriplegic is spearheading fundraising efforts to create an imaging system to help diagnose spinal cord injuries.
Some thoughts on overuse of sedatives, opiates, and stimulants
A recent article over at the Why is American Health Care So Expensive blog discussed the patterns in overuse of sedatives, opiates, and stimulants, noting:There is no good evidence that these medications are either safe or effective when used long term. In fact there is good evidence that they are NOT safe, and quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that they are not effective. We prescribe many times the number of controlled substances now than we did a decade ago, and overall Americans are not less anxious or less in pain or better able to concentrate than they were before. Those of us who prescribe opiates to patients with chronic pain very rarely see the pain become significantly more manageable though we do see the patients
Aussies outdo Brits on drug use, but less likely to have drinking problems: study
More Australians are taking illicit drugs than are Britons on average, but people in Britain are still smoking tobacco and abusing alcohol in higher numbers, a University of Adelaide report finds.
Practice-changing study offers new option for tough breast cancer cases
A new phase 3 study in some of the most difficult-to-treat patients, women with endocrine-resistant disease, showed that the newly approved drug, palbociclib, more than doubled the time to cancer recurrence for women with hormone-receptor (HR+) positive metastatic breast cancer.
Do they deserve a medal?
The United Hospital Fund has posted a quarter page ad in the New York Times, entitled “They deserve a medal.” The ad celebrates hospital trustees whose “leadership and dedication make life better for all New Yorkers,” and there will be a presentation in their honor at the Waldorf-Astoria. This is an annual event by the UHF.I firmly believe that hospital trustees are dedicated and thoughtful folks, who devote time, energy, and money to support local institutions. We should indeed be grateful for their devotion to the cause. But it’s been my experience that many hospital governing boards fail to address fully the patient experience. So, I wondered what, other than personal commitment, the boards of these hospitals have achieved on that front. I