USA – Flu Caused 80,000 Deaths in US Last Year
Influenza was especially severe in the United States last year. According to new data released today at a news briefing held by the Centers...
Inernational – The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World : Request for Proposals For New...
Researchers studying people’s smoking behaviors (e.g., cigarette smoker, vaper, smokeless tobacco user, nicotine-replacement therapy user, nonuser) need to know what products, in what...
USA – FTC Charges First Marketer of Intravenous Products
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has, for the first time, charged a marketer and seller of intravenously injected therapy products, known as iV Cocktails,...
USA – E-cigarette warnings to arrive in high school bathrooms nationwide
The US Food and Drug Administration will stage a massive education campaign aimed at the nearly 10.7 million teens at risk for e-cigarette use...
International – Oral Contraceptive Use Link to Childhood Leukemia
A nationwide cohort study in more than 1.1 million Danish children shows that the use of combined estrogen and progestin oral contraceptives in the...
Europe – Low Vitamin D Levels in Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Lower vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D) levels are found in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) compared to those with painless DPN, patients with...
USA – Cumulative BP Measures Better for CV Risk Prediction
Algorithms used for risk prediction of cardiovascular disease would be more accurate if they included a more sophisticated measure of blood pressure history rather...
Europe – High-Sensitivity Troponin Does Not Improve MI Outcomes
The first randomized controlled trial of the latest high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome showed the test increased...
International – Study discovers immunotherapy could treat some aggressive prostate cancers
The team - led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the US - found that...
Study – Researchers 3D Print Prototype “Bionic Eye”
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed a light receptive array, consisting of silver particles and semiconducting polymers, on a glass hemispherical surface....
