Articles tagged with: drugs
Medications can be effective when they are used properly, but some can be addictive and dangerous when abused. This chart provides a brief look at some prescribed medications that—when used in ways or by people other than prescribed—have the potential for adverse medical consequences, including addiction. In 2010, approximately 16 million Americans reported using a […]
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Tracing biological pathways Breakthrough could simplify drug development process A new chemical process developed by a team of Harvard researchers may increase the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) in creating real-time 3-D images of chemical activity occurring inside the human body. Tobias Ritter, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and his colleagues have developed a new […]
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Presidential Proclamation — National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, 2011 National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, 2011 … The White House Office of the Press Secretary October 03, 2011 Presidential Proclamation — National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, 2011 NATIONAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH, 2011 – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A […]
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New Uses for Existing Medicines In a novel approach, researchers used computers and genomic data to find new applications for existing FDA-approved drugs. The accomplishment represents a major step forward in drug discovery. Drug approval takes many years of research, development and safety testing. When drugs that have already been approved are used for other […]
Magnetically controlled pills could boost body’s absorption of drugs Many drugs can only be absorbed in very specific parts of the intestine. In a new paper, Brown University scientists describe a new system that can safely hold a magnetic gelatin capsule in place anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract of a rat. In humans, the system […]
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Research provides new leads in the case against drug-resistant biofilms Films of bacteria that form around foreign materials in the body can be very difficult to defeat with drugs, but research led by Brown University biologists has identified a couple proteins that play a key role in building these “biofilms.” This pair could prove to […]
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Deadly virus reveals a potential weakness A new study of the JC polyomavirus, a devastating pathogen that attacks brain cells in patients with compromised immune systems, has revealed how it binds to its targets, providing a basis for developing drugs to interrupt that process. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The JC polyomavirus doesn’t strike very […]
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