(Reuters) – Pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and other defendants on Tuesday said they were not to blame for the opioid crisis in San Francisco, and that they acted responsibly when providing legal medications to patients in pain.FILE PHOTO: Tablets of the opioid-based Hydrocodone at a pharmacy in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo“Almost all of those prescriptions […]

Kane Tanaka of Japan, who was the world’s oldest living person, has died at age 119, according to news reports. Tanaka was born on Jan. 2, 1903 and died on April 19, according to CNN. According to Guinness World Records, db bending up soma sonic everything Tanaka became the world’s oldest living person on Jan. 30, 2019 at 116 years […]

Distrust can lead people to put up walls. For communities of color, past abuses, such as the Tuskegee Experiment, left them wary of scientific research. That distrust has been further fueled by the on-again, off-again relationship some researchers have offered these communities. Keen at first to engage them to gain data for their studies, some researchers disappeared once funding ran […]

People with sickle cell disease (SCD) who were recently prescribed a corticosteroid—a medicine frequently used to treat asthma or inflammation—were found to be significantly more likely to be hospitalized for a severe pain event, according to a paper published today in the journal Blood. The research also found that older adults, women, and people who were not taking the drug hydroxyurea to […]

Russian lawmaker threatens 'nuclear strike' against Great Britain We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision, in March, to increase his country’s nuclear […]

Mysterious cases of serious liver damage or hepatitis in young children have been reported in 12 countries, including the U.S. and the U.K. Health officials say there have been at least 169 cases and one death, and more than a dozen children required liver transplants. Health officials report that the outbreak may be linked to a common adenovirus. Any child […]

Are you finding it difficult to get moving after having COVID? You are not alone. Even if you have mild symptoms, you may still experience difficulty in regaining your fitness. Building back up to exercise is important, but so is taking it slowly. In general, most people can start to return to exercise or sporting activity after experiencing no symptoms […]

One way exercise can counter the damage of diabetes is by enabling activation of a natural system we have to grow new blood vessels when existing ones are ravaged by this disease, scientists report. Angiogenesis is the ability to form new blood vessels, and diabetes not only damages existing blood vessels, it hinders this innate ability to grow new ones […]

Dotmatics was today announced as the formal name and brand for the combined entities of Insightful Science and Dotmatics. As the Insightful Science brand is retired, the new Dotmatics company is now inclusive of the Dotmatics’ enterprise scientific platform and many of scientists’ favorite applications including SnapGene, Geneious, and GraphPad Prism to offer end-to-end solutions for biology, chemistry, and formulations […]

insights from industrySteffen van HeijningenMarketing Specialist, Neuroscientist Noldus Information Technology In this Interview Neuroscientist Steffen van Heijningen, shares with News-Medical the insights from the research on mice housing conditions.  Could you start by introducing yourself and saying a bit about your background? My name is Steffen van Heijningen. I studied at the University of Groningen from 2010 to 2015, first as an undergraduate […]