Hong Kong's only remedy for Ebola is a breast cancer drug South China Morning Post A breast cancer drug is the only possible remedy Hong Kong has for an Ebola outbreak after the city was denied supplies of other drugs being tested against the deadly virus. | The medicine, which has shown promise in treating Ebola infections in mice, has never been tested in humans for this purpose...
Let drug mules stew in own juices in Peru Belfast Telegraph GERARD Ferran (Write Back, August 15) sounds a very balanced person – with a chip on both shoulders. | He is totally wrong in thinking that the Michaella McCollum row is an Irish vs unionist debate. | The real issues are twofold. First, Michaella M...
How the NHS can deal with soaring drugs prices The Guardian National Insitute of Clinical Excellence decisions have sparked debate over funding the spiralling cost of medication | 'Doctors need to get back to the principle of prescribing drugs from the current arsenal that they can be confident will offer ben...
Novartis licenses experimental tuberculosis drugs to TB Alliance Reuters ZURICH Aug 20 (Reuters) - Novartis said on Wednesday it had signed an a deal to exclusively license its experimental drugs for tuberculosis (TB) to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. | Under the terms of the agreement, TB Alliance will take...
Kombucha tea given mixed reviews despite 2,000 years as successful medicine The Examiner Although the title of the article is somewhat negative with regard to Kombucha tea, the body of the article released by eMPR on Aug. 19, 2014 is actually very informative and positive. The article is titled Kombucha: Boosting Immunity or Just Toxic T...
Health workers given untested Ebola drug improving The Hindu Three Liberian health workers receiving an experimental drug for Ebola are showing signs of recovery, officials said on Wednesday, though medical experts caution it is not certain if the drug is effective. | The World Health Organization said that th...
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Extreme medicine: The search for new antibiotics Reuters NORWICH England (Reuters) - Pampering leafcutter ants with fragrant rose petals and fresh oranges may seem an unlikely way to rescue modern medicine, but scientists at a lab in eas...
Ethical to use untested Ebola drugs, says WHO BBC News Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. | The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak ...
Diabetes drug may even benefit non-diabetics The Siasat Daily London, August 08: | A study involving over 180,000 people has shown that patients treated with the widely prescribed diabetic drug metformin can live longer than non-diabetics. | ...
Obama: too early to send Ebola drug to Africa Al Jazeera Barack Obama, the US president, has said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as Liberia declared a state of emergency amid...
Antibiotic use and 5 other risk factors for toddler obesity The Dallas Morning News | I don’t think anyone will ever ask me, “Do these antibiotics make me look fat?” But, I do believe that physicians may become more cauti... (photo: WN / Dr. Cory Couillard)
Experimental Ebola drug making progress Stuff Three Liberian health workers receiving an experimental drug to treat Ebola are showing signs of recovery, officials said on Tuesday (local time). | T... (photo: AP / Abbas Dulleh)
