EU approved 96 new medicines in 2020
The European Medicines Agency gave its backing to 15 new medicines at its December meeting, taking its total for the year to 96. This rounded off a busy […]
The European Medicines Agency gave its backing to 15 new medicines at its December meeting, taking its total for the year to 96. This rounded off a busy […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed that health authorities can extract six doses of vaccine from each vial of Comirnaty, a vaccine against COVID-19 manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech. […]
A recent Canadian study examining comorbidities before and after the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) used distance matrices to match RA cases to controls with similar medical histories. The […]
The findings of a recent Canadian study examining comorbidities before and after the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could have important implications for practice, according to lead researcher Dr […]
A recent Canadian study examining comorbidities before and after the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) produced a number of interesting findings, Dr Mark Tatangelo, the lead researcher explains. This study […]
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects about one percent of the population in the UK and comorbidities are reported to be common. A recent study from Canada was designed to […]
Among persons with prediabetes, a lifestyle intervention can almost halve the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, researchers from a large, new study reported on Nov. 13, 2020 […]
Investigators from the QUAZAR trial report that treatment with oral azacytidine (CC-486), significantly improves survival in older patients, over age of 55, with AML acute myeloid leukemia (AML). […]
The diabetes drug canagliflozin, which has already shown efficacy in slowing kidney disease, is also effective among patients with advanced kidney disease. Researchers reported these findings in the […]
Rilonacept, an FDA approved drug for other inflammatory diseases, shows high efficacy for treating acute pericarditis, an inflammation of tissue around the heart. The findings were published on […]
Is there case for mass vitamin D supplementation to mitigate the effects of covid-19? There are now more than 40 studies demonstrating that having optimal blood levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D […]
A meta-analysis of 11 randomised clinical trials of ivermectin to treat covid-19 infection shows a resoundingly positive effect. In summary, ivermectin treatment is associated with: Faster viral clearance Shorter duration […]