The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Eli Lilly’s biosimilar version of insulin glargine, Rezvoglar KwikPen. The new formulation is the second long-acting glargine “biosimilar,” a designation established by the FDA in March 2020 to regulate insulin and other biologics separately from drugs. The first one, benzac per acne funziona Semglee (Mylan Pharmaceuticals) was approved as a glargine […]

High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips 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 High cholesterol means you have too much cholesterol in your blood. Cholesterol is […]

Cessation of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) significantly increases the risk of self-harm and death by suicide in the first month after stopping the treatment in new findings that highlight the need for “advanced safety planning” during this critical time. Investigators found that 4 weeks after stopping OAT, the risk of death by suicide was almost five times higher and the […]

Patients with cancer remain vulnerable to breakthrough COVID-19 infection after vaccination and most experience severe outcomes, according to a review of patient data from the international COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) registry. Of 54 fully vaccinated patients with cancer and COVID-19, 35 (65%) were hospitalized, 10 (19%) were admitted to the intensive care unit or required mechanical ventilation, and 7 […]

For women with ovarian cancer, there is a high rate of mortality, alternative to using flomax in part due to the ease of cancer cell spreading, or metastasis, in the abdominal cavity. Current treatments can be expensive and have proven to be ineffective against long-term survival in these patients. It’s one of the reasons many researchers have sought to identify […]

Omicron: Five symptoms to look out for 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 It can be difficult to spot the tell-tale signs of the new variant […]

Tomsk State University (TSU) neurobiologists are studying congenital brain anomalies in the human prenatal and postnatal periods. While studying agenesis of the corpus callosum (complete or partial absence of the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain), the scientists discovered that its functions can be compensated for by other brain structures. The child’s cognitive abilities remain intact. This […]

All I want for Christmas… is a Covid jab! NHS dishes out 12,000 vaccines on Dec 25 and nearly 25,000 on Boxing Day 200,000 Covid jabs dished out on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day Officials praised staff and volunteers for giving up time with their families Some 32.4million booster doses have been given out across the UK so […]

Back in July, a 24-year-old passed on the chance of seeing England play Denmark in the Euro 2020 semi-finals, in order to help a stranger who needed emergency treatment. Sam Astley gave up his tickets to watch England at Wembley to make a life-saving stem cell donation.  After discovering that he was a donor match, Sam signed up to the […]

The days between Christmas and new year are often a blur, with much of them spent slumped on the sofa or out for the occasional cold walk. You might find this week makes existing pains and aches worse, simply because we’re paying less attention to looking after our bodies – the festive period is often considered a ‘write off’. So […]