Mar 13,2024 By Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University and Ian HamiltonHonorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York New York: There has been a significant rise in deaths linked to the commonly prescribed anxiety drug, pregabalin. While in...
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Mar 13,2024 Illinois: A collaborative research between a bariatric and transplant surgery team has provided fresh hope for individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and obesity. The study’s authors investigated the results of metabolic and bariatric surgery in ESRD patients,...
Mar 13,2024 London: Merck & Co said on Wednesday it plans to conduct clinical trials testing its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil 9 to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single-dose regimen compared to the approved three-dose regimen. The...
Mar 14,2024 BRUSSELS – EU lawmakers have gone part of the way to meeting pharmaceutical industry concerns about the exclusivity period for new medicines after reaching a compromise on the biggest overhaul of EU pharmaceutical rules in 20 years, a...
Mar 13,2024 Mumbai: Dealing with existing infectious diseases like tuberculosis and dengue will prepare the country better for tackling the next pandemic or unknown pathogen, said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, former chief scientist of the World Health Organisation, here on Tuesday....
Mar 13,2024 London: TheU.S. Food and Drug Administration’s staff reviewers said on Tuesday they were unclear if Geron’s blood disorder drug provided a clear benefit to patients in a late-stage trial and raised multiple safety concerns with the treatment. Shares...
Mar 13,2024 London: Pfizer said on Tuesday its drug, Adcetris , extended survival in patients with the most common type of lymphoma in a late-stage study, bolstering efforts to expand the use of the treatment gained through its $43 billion...
Feb 28,2024 NEW DELHI: A cataract surgery could cost up to Rs 10,000 per eye in a govt hospital and Rs 30,000-1,40,000 in a private facility. Supreme Court Tuesday took strong exception to this disparity and inability of the Centre...
Mar 07,2024 Paris, Mar 06, 2024 -A German man who deliberately got vaccinated for Covid-19 a whopping 217 times did not report any side effects from his many jabs, according to researchers studying possibly the “most vaccinated person in history”....
Mar 03,2024 Panaji: GMC has set a shining example of innovation by becoming the first hospital in the country to use a gold-coated implant for a knee-replacement procedure. At an orthopaedics conference Global Medial Pivot Knee Summit – held in...