Imagine a surgical patient on a bloodthinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center Promptpillstore have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers [...]

A medication list can provide emergency medical personnel with lifesaving information and help prevent the nearly 1.5 million¹ people harmed by medication related errors every year. But, a recent consumer survey commissioned by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and conducted by Harris Interactive revealed that while a large percentage of Americans have an uptodate list [...]

A program that bundled two generic, lowcost drugs a cholesterollowering statin and a blood pressurelowering drug and gave daily doses to 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease for two years is estimated to have prevented 1,271 heart attacks and strokes in the first year following the study period, according to a Kaiser [...]

The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) will host a one day, comprehensive CARD Rochester Autism Conference on October 28, 2009 at The Country Party House located at 321 East Linden in Rochester, New York.
“CARD has brought together six of its leading autism experts to present workshops which [...]

Obstetrics patients treated by graduates of certain residency programs have better health outcomes than others, according to a study by the University of Pennsylvanias Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the New York Times reports. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated residency programs based on rates of complications among [...]