Poor sleep 'early warning sign' for drink and drug issues BBC News Poor sleep in teenage years could be an early warning sign for alcohol problems, illicit drug use and "regretful" sexual behaviour, research suggests. | US scientists found adolescents with bad sleep habits were more likely to engage in risky behaviour in the years to come than those who s...
Promote Indian drugs, US health groups urge Obama The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Leading US health groups including AVAC, Oxfam America, amfAR, Health Global Access Project (GAP), TAG (Treatment Action Group)and others have written to Barack Obama urging him to support India in providing "high-quality, low-cost generic...
Researchers recruiting Alzheimer’s patients for important drug trial The Miami Herald Four sites in South Florida are recruiting subjects for a national clinical trial looking at a drug that can potentially slow the process of Alzheimer’s Disease. Researchers hope that this investigational medicine, geared for people with mild to mo...
Common medicines pose higher dementia risk, including Alzheimer’s disease The Examiner The use of certain medications causing anticholinergic effects have been associated with an increase in developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report published in the journal of JAMA Internal Medicine on Jan. 26. These m...
Clinton Foundation To Help Make Anti-Overdose Drug Much More Affordable> Huffington Post INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Naloxone, a medication known as the “overdose antidote,” can reverse the effects of an overdose from opioid drugs like heroin, Vicodin, OxyContin and morphine. Although Naloxone has saved tens of thousands of lives, and ha...
SA role in Ebola vaccine clinical trial Business Day Related articles | Experimental Ebola vaccine trials start Ebola outbreak in West Africa appears to be slowing down, says UN SA healthcare workers joi... (photo: UN / Martine Perret)
