SATURDAY, Dec. 31 — If champagne is a part of your New Year’s Eve celebration, use care when you pop the cork or it could turn into a dangerous projectile that can cause serious eye damage, the American Academy of Ophthalmology warns.
When it…
Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Read more →ProStrakan, Inc., a subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd., and an international specialty pharmaceutical company, today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) REMS Access…
Read more →Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval of the Company’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevnar 13 (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) as a single dose for use in ad…
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Read more →FRIDAY, Dec. 30 — Researchers have identified three gene abnormalities that appear to raise the likelihood for developing the thyroid cancer, with one in particular — the PTEN gene — implicated in children’s risk for the disease.
Dr. Charis Eng,…
THURSDAY, Dec. 29 — Overcrowding in emergency rooms appears to keep children with broken arms and legs from getting pain relief in a timely manner, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine said their…
FRIDAY, Dec. 30 — Taking up running is a good way to boost your fitness level in the year ahead, but one expert cautioned that anyone new to the sport — or exercise in general — should have realistic expectations about the commitment it takes to…
Read more →FRIDAY, Dec. 30 — New research suggests that in addition to the disabling lesions it’s known to cause, multiple sclerosis also damages the part of the brain that affects thinking skills, motor function and the senses.
“The thalamus is a central…
FRIDAY, Dec. 30 — Drug users who inject themselves with methamphetamine are 80 percent more likely to attempt suicide than those abusing other drugs, new research reveals.
The magnified risk for meth users is probably rooted in a mixture of…