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Alcohol dependence is safely treated by a drug normally used for epilepsy and neuropathic pain, according to a study conducted by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/04/gabapentin-neurontin-treats-alcoholism-epilepsy/
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $2 billion and plead guilty to a misdemeanor in a deal that would settle the U.S. government's investigations into the marketing of antipsychotic Risperdal.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-372500/
A team of international scientists has isolated a very close relative of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) from horseshoe bats in China, confirming them as the origin of the virus responsible for the 2002-3 pandemic.
http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Bats-confirmed-as-SARS-origin.aspx
Scientists of the Institute of Clinical Immunology in the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Novosibirsk have developed a vaccine for the treatment of cancer, the institute's director, Professor Vladimir Kozlov, told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The typical animal cell measures about 10 microns, or 0.001 centimeters, in diameter. Which is unsurprising—cells are small! that's sort of the point!—and, at the same time, curious. Animals exhibit nothing if not biodiversity, yet the building blocks we all share are, with very few exceptions, astoundingly similar in size.
San Diego-based drugmaker Zogenix received approval Friday to sell its new pure opioid painkiller, despite a regulatory clampdown this week on abuse of the drug.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/25/zogenix-zohydro-opioid-approved/
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, changes that are expected to take place as early as next year.
Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2.
A substance in breast milk that neutralizes HIV and may protect babies from acquiring HIV from their infected mothers has been identified for the first time by researchers at Duke Medicine.
“We believe that someday everybody’s going to get sequenced,” Flatley said. “Newborns will get sequenced when they’re born. And with wireless ... people will have real-time monitoring of their health. They’ll have the genome as the backdrop of the analysis.”
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/21/illumina-jay-flatley/
