(Reuters) – AbbVie Inc and Eli Lilly & Co are facing fresh delays in the approval of their respective rheumatoid arthritis drugs for treating the chronic skin disease eczema as the U.S. health regulator assesses the new class of treatment over safety concerns. The treatment, called JAK inhibitors, blocks inflammation-causing enzymes known as Janus kinases and targets a range of […]
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Curtin University research has found quit support for smoking mothers should continue even after their first babies are born, given that many of those women will become pregnant again, and that quitting can substantially reduce the risk of future preterm births. The longitudinal study examined the records and histories across 23 years, of 63,540 Australian women with more than one […]
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ST. LOUIS — The day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson finished his bicentennial bus tour to drum up tourism to the state in mid-July, Chicago issued a travel advisory warning about visiting Missouri. Earlier this summer, as covid-19 case counts began to tick up when the highly transmissible delta variant took hold in the state, the Republican-majority legislature successfully enacted […]
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High-dose buprenorphine therapy, provided under emergency department care, is safe and well tolerated in people with opioid use disorder experiencing opioid withdrawal symptoms, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, or the NIH HEAL Initiative. Lower doses of buprenorphine, a medication approved […]
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A trio of researchers at the Phase Research Center in Moscow has found some evidence that suggests people who claim to have seen or been abducted by aliens may have instead simply dreamed about the experience. In their paper published in the journal International Journal of Dream Research, Michael Raduga, blood pressure benicar Andrey Shashkov and Zhanna Zhunusova describe experiments […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, called the COVID-19 Delta variant “one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of” and reported more cases and hospitalizations. “Today, I want to speak about our need to come together against a common enemy. SARS-CoV-2 and the Delta […]
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As far back as the early 1990s, audits performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of Inspector General consistently identify USDA’s failure to protect dogs in puppy mills. The most recent audit uncovered critical issues that prevent the USDA from ensuring humane treatment of dogs, including basic recordkeeping failures and reliance on information that the USDA itself admits […]
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We all know that sitting around all day can be bad for your back and your general health, but did you know it can be bad for your butt, too? And not just bad for your butt because you’re sitting on it all day — bad for your butt because it falls asleep. By falling asleep, it simply means the muscles aren’t […]
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Our favorite thing about cooking in the summer is that the produce is so ripe, so flavorful, and so fresh, that you don’t have to use a lot of fancy cooking techniques to make a delicious meal. One of the masters of this style of cooking is Giada De Laurentiis, probably because she gets so much of her culinary inspiration […]
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