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People who are using blood-thinning medications regularly have to check if their dosage needs adjusting. And while doing so currently involves lab tests or expensive home systems, a simple smartphone-based setup may soon be able to perform the task.Con… Continue reading Smartphone system measures clotting time of users’ blood samples
A new study analyzing health records from several hundred thousand people in Denmark has identified a link between low rates of type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis patients treated with a drug called alendronate. The researchers hypothesize the drug may p… Continue reading Reduced risk of type 2 diabetes linked to cheap, common osteoporosis drug
Nobody likes gulping down a big pill, to the point that some people may not bother taking their medication because it’s just too hard to swallow. A new system from MIT could help in that regard, by packing the same drug dose into a smaller pill.Continu… Continue reading MIT tech packs drugs into smaller but just-as-potent pills
Although we may all get a dry mouth from time to time, for some people it can be an ongoing debilitating condition. There could be new hope for such folks, however, thanks to a recent accidental discovery.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags:… Continue reading Accidental discovery may lead to new treatment for mouth dryness
When a patient is receiving medication, it can be difficult to determine how much of the drug is actually making its way into their bloodstream. A new subdermal “tattoo” could help, thanks to its color-changing gold nanoparticles.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Under-skin sensor uses bits of gold to show bloodstream drug levels
Even though at-home use of an inhaler or insulin pen can be extremely important, doctors have to pretty much just hope that patients are doing it right. A new system, however, could objectively assess patients’ technique within their homes, and let the… Continue reading AI monitoring system warns patients of improper inhaler usage
Currently, in order to see if an antidepressant works, patients have to take the drug for at least a month. New research, however, suggests that by monitoring a patient’s brainwaves as they sleep, the effectiveness of an antidepressant can be gauged in… Continue reading Sleeping brainwaves could point the way to the best antidepressant
Opioid pain relievers not only produce potential side effects such as nausea and constipation, but they can also be highly addictive. Australian scientists have therefore created what could be a better medication, that is made using tarantula venom.Con… Continue reading Tarantula venom finds use in non-opioid pain relief drug
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of the disease, thanks largely to the fact that the tumors tend to be much more solid. This means that cancer drugs aren’t able to get inside to work their magic. But now researchers have iden… Continue reading Slow-and-steady drug combo wins race against pancreatic cancer
Scientists could almost build a whole mini-body out of the mini-organs that have been grown over the last few years. But cell development has traditionally been tricky to study, thanks largely to the difficulty in getting sensors in there wit… Continue reading Harvard team grows cyborg mini-organs out of stem cells