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Effective pain treatment for cancer patients?

Effective pain treatment for cancer patients?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cancer patients often suffer from severe pain that cannot be effectively treated with conventional medication. Researchers at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of Heidelberg have found the possible ...





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Curing addiction with cannabis medicines

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Smokers trying to quit in the future could do it with the help of cannabis based medicines, according to research from The University of Nottingham.


Unique mass spectrometer to explore Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A group of U.S. biomedical scientists has won a $750,000 NASA grant to design a mini mass spectrometer to aid in the search for life on Mars.


Heartburn drugs deemed safe for fetuses: research

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

H2 Blocker drugs, such as Famotidine, Cimetidine and Ranitidine, approved in the U.S. for acid reflux (heartburn), pose no significant risks for the fetus according to a large collaborative cohort study by researchers at ...


Chinese slimming capsules

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centers in the German cities of Freiburg and Göttingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking ...


US pharmacologist Robert Furchgott

Viagra developer Furchgott dead at 92: report

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92, The New York Times reported Sunday.


Label for first homoeopathic product may be illegal, warns senior scientist

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The labelling for the first homoeopathic product to get a licence from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should be illegal, because they breach Unfair Trading regulations, argues a senior scientist ...


Urine protein may be present before hypertension diagnosis in at-risk adolescents

Urine protein may be present before hypertension diagnosis in at-risk adolescents

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A protein that is an early indicator of kidney dysfunction in adults may predict hypertension in black adolescents, Medical College of Georgia researchers have found.


Don't block folic acid in early pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using medication that reduces or blocks the actions of folic acid during the first trimester of pregnancy (weeks 1-12), increases the risk that the growing baby will develop abnormalities. This conclusion was reached by a ...


Antidepressants and painkillers - a dangerous combination

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 08, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taking antidepressants together with painkillers can substantially increase the risk of bleeding from the stomach, according to new research by the University of East Anglia.


Stopping diabetes damage with vitamin C

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center have found a way to stop the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.



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