Systemic therapy outperforms intraocular implant for treating uveitis
Speed management key to saving lives, making cities more liveable
Managing speed, a new report from WHO, suggests that excessive or inappropriate speed contributes to 1 in 3 road traffic fatalities worldwide. Measures to address speed prevent road traffic deaths and injuries, make populations healthier, and cities...
CDC updates guidance on interpretation of Zika testing results for pregnant women
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Notice with updated guidance for healthcare professionals to interpret Zika test results for women who live in, or frequently travel (daily or weekly) to areas with a CDC Zika...
WHO to begin pilot prequalification of biosimilars for cancer treatment
This year WHO will launch a pilot project for prequalifying biosimilar medicines, a step towards making some of the most expensive treatments for cancer more widely available in low- and middle-income countries.
Brain “relay” also key to holding thoughts in the mind
Long assumed to be a mere “relay,” an often-overlooked egg-like structure in the middle of the brain also turns out to play a pivotal role in tuning-up thinking circuity. A trio of studies in mice funded by the National Institutes of Health are...
Prescribing Patterns Change Following Direct Marketing Restrictions
A study of how policies restricting pharmaceutical promotion to physicians affect medication prescribing found that physicians in academic medical centers (AMCs) prescribed fewer of the promoted drugs, and more non-promoted drugs in the same drug...
African-American Death Rate Drops 25 Percent
African Americans are more likely to die at early ages from all causes.
NIH research improves health for people with asthma
Zika virus persists in the central nervous system and lymph nodes of Rhesus monkeys
Transmission electron microscope image of negative-stained, Fortaleza-strain Zika virus (red), isolated from a...
Antidepressant may enhance drug delivery to the brain
Normally, P-glycoprotein prevents most medicines from entering...
