by Mr Nizam Mamode (pictured) – This year’s European Society for Organ Transplantation meeting, held in Vienna, saw a concerted attempt at providing a high quality congress for… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Investigators suggest caution in prescribing inhaled corticosteroids to high-risk patients such as pneumonia survivors, after their research shows a twofold risk for repeat infection.
Statins might help prevent dementia and cataracts, according to two studies.
by Michel Komajda (pictured right) – DPP4 inhibitors are a new class of glucose lowering agents which act on the incretin pathway.
by Pam Harrison – MSI status has clear prognostic value in stage II CRC Julien Taieb, MD, PhD, University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France Microsatellite instability (MSI), a… read more.
Patients with diabetes who take certain types of medications to lower their blood sugar sometimes experience severe low blood sugar levels, whether or not their diabetes is poorly… read more.
Spinal injections of steroids, intended to relieve back pain, increased bone fragility in the vertebrae of older patients, a retrospective analysis found.
In recent years, there has been an adjustment in the scientific thinking about the utility of screening men for prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen (PSA).
by Peter Mas Mollinedo – Investigators report that current marijuana users have achieved significantly lower fasting insulin, and are less likely than non-users to be insulin resistant, even… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Long-term use of opioids is linked to an increased higher risk of erectile dysfunction (ED), researchers reported on May 15, 2013 in the journal… read more.
In association with A.Menarini Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd. and Daiichi Sankyo Ireland Ltd. By Christine Clark FRPharmS – Hypertension is a long-term condition for which an individual will require treatment… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Increases in outdoor heat significantly raise, for the elderly, the risk of emergency hospitalisation for respiratory disorders, researchers reported online on March 8, 2013… read more.
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