Regulators have given the green light to the first alopecia treatment proven to regrow hair. Trials have shown that taking the daily pill can almost entirely reverse the condition that causes hair to fall out in clumps. Called baricitinib, the drug is already in use on the NHS for a number of conditions, including arthritis, … Read more
A much-debated drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease won US approval on Thursday from the Food and Drug Administration. The nod represents a long-desired victory for patients, though it is likely to renew questions about the scientific rigor behind government reviews of experimental medicines, as the Associated Press has reported. The FDA approved the drug from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals based … Read more
Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Inserm, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France Aniket Mishra, Quentin Le Grand, Ilana Caro, Constance Bordes, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Marine Germain, Christophe Tzourio, Jean-François Dartigues, Sara Kaffashian, Quentin Le Grand, Florence Saillour-Glenisson & Stephanie Debette Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany Rainer Malik, Marios K. Georgakis, Steffen Tiedt & Martin Dichgans Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, … Read more
Socialist and progressive city council members are looking to advance a bill that would pay drug users to return spent paraphernalia as the number of discarded needles in New York City has more than doubled over the last year. The proposed cash-for-addicts program “would authorize the [Department of Health and Mental Hygiene] to set the … Read more
Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A common heart and blood pressure drug could see a second act as a treatment for alcohol use disorder, new government-led research this week suggests. The study has found evidence in both rodents and humans that the medication spironolactone can reduce people’s craving for and consumption of alcohol. Spironolactone has been in … Read more
For years, human civilization has been embroiled in a quiet public health crisis: Some of our antibiotic drugs have stopped working. The over-prescription of antibiotics has turned the bugs we could once easily defeat into super-pathogens capable of evading even our best defenses, as they have evolved faster than we can design drugs to defeat … Read more
1/4 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Washington Division is raising awareness about nitazenes, a dangerous class of drugs they are seeing emerge in the region. Nitazines are being sourced from China and being mixed into other drugs, the DEA says. Isotonitazene, also known as nitazene or “ISO,” is a synthetic opioid first identified around 2019. … Read more
A Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit plans to move its local outpatient clinic to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street, after purchasing that recently shuttered ex-pharmacy property for $2.5 million. On Monday, Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism Inc. (MCCA) bought the 1.15-acre commercial property at 215 Whalley Ave. from the Brandfon Family Limited … Read more
Humans have used honey for its antimicrobial properties for millennia, and science has only recently been catching up. Researchers recently demonstrated in the laboratory that mānuka honey could help us treat one of the most aggressive and drug-resistant lung infections. “The use of this potential treatment combining amikacin and mānuka honey shows great promise as … Read more
The only medication available to treat monkeypox is so difficult to use that it is given to only a fraction of the approximately 7,000 patients in the United States. Health officials have designated tecovirimat, also known as Tipox, a “trial drug,” meaning it cannot be released from the strategic national stockpile without a series of … Read more