News tagged with drug testing
Restaurants plan DNA-certified premium seafood
(AP) -- Restaurants around the world will soon use new DNA technology to assure patrons they are being served the genuine fish fillet or caviar they ordered, rather than inferior substitutes, an expert in genetic identification ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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GAO investigators say DNA tests give bogus results
A government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inheritable diseases are misleading and offer little or no useful information.
Jul 25, 2010 |
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FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Proteins may point to alcohol use test
Measuring a set of protein changes in the blood linked to alcohol use may potentially lead to a more accurate diagnostic test than those currently available, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2010 |
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New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease
Scientists are reporting a potential solution to a problem that limits the human body’s ability to absorb and use medications for heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, cancer and other conditions. It is a “nano-hybrid ...
May 27, 2009 |
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Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment
A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.
Nov 18, 2009 |
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China gives press more freedom -- for food safety
(AP) -- Toxic bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation's dinner bowls.
May 15, 2011 |
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Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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UC Berkeley plan to test freshmen DNA criticized
(AP) -- A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven technology on impressionable students.
May 21, 2010 |
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Intentional variation increases result validity in mouse testing
For decades, the traditional practice in animal testing has been standardization, but a study involving Purdue University has shown that adding as few as two controlled environmental variables to preclinical ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 09, 2010 |
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FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 18, 2009 |
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It's time to phase out codeine
It is time to phase out the use of codeine as a pain reliever because of its significant risks and ineffectiveness as an analgesic, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 04, 2010 |
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A more definitive test for a common sexually transmitted infection
A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), Trichamonos vaginalis (TV). The researchers also noted ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Engineer builds tissue models to study diseases
Shelly Peyton, a chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is building working models of human bone, breast, liver and artery tissues to see how cells behave when they are affected by a ...
May 12, 2011 |
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System to deliver organ transplant drug -- without harmful side effects
A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmful side effects, is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 26, 2012 |
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