Medication

Article • Pharmaceutical research

Boosting biomarker detection with digital pathology

Digital pathology can be used to great effect in pharmaceutical research: it can accelerate analyses, give deeper insights into cellular mechanisms, and enable better understanding of their role into…

News • Medication-related procedure complications

Weight loss drugs may increase endoscopy risk

Popular medications like Ozempic and Wegovy that are used to treat diabetes and obesity are associated with an increased risk of aspiration pneumonia following endoscopy, a new study finds.

News • Warfarin, personalised

AI helps dosing anticoagulation meds in heart surgery patients

Warfarin is sometimes prescribed after heart surgery, but getting the dose right requires a personalised approach for each patient. A new AI tool is designed to help with this complex task.

News • Personalised oncology

New platform to significantly reduce cancer drug testing and screening time

In a breakthrough for personalised oncology, scientists have developed and demonstrated a novel platform that can significantly reduce the time needed to determine the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs.

News • New antibodies discovered

Researchers snake toward a universal antivenom

Scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia.

News • Medication safety

Should these pills go together? ML model predicts drug interactions

Not all medication can safely be taken together. Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers predict interactions that could interfere with a drug’s effectiveness.

News • Research project 'ADAPT-HEAT'

Climate medicine: How does extreme heat affect medication?

Heat waves are becoming more common due to climate change. Researchers in Cologne explore what this might mean for the effectiveness of medication.

News • Decision support system

Reducing high-risk drug combinations in the ICU

Fewer, but more relevant alerts in the ICU: Dutch researchers show how a computerized decision support system significantly reduces high-risk drug combinations in intensive care patients.

News • Replacement of unnecessary medicines

Are placebos fair game in healthcare? New study confirms

Using placebos in primary care to reduce overprescribing, conserve existing antibiotics and limit further resistance, is publicly acceptable, a new study shows.

News • Biopharmaceutical business

Precision approach to significantly reduce R&D costs for cancer drugs

A new analysis exploring the finances of bringing new cancer drugs to market has found that precision oncology drugs could be $1 billion cheaper to develop than non-precision drugs.

News • Safe practice

New guidance to prevent injection errors in anaesthesia

To reduce avoidable errors, especially involving injectable medications in anaesthesia care, UK experts have published a new guidance on safe injection practice.

News • New method

Time-released drug delivery could make vaccines last for months

Missing crucial doses of medicines and vaccines could become a thing of the past thanks to Rice University bioengineers’ technology for making time-released drugs.

News • The "Rx" factor

GP burnout linked to higher opioid and antibiotic prescribing

When in doubt, write a prescription? New research links burnout in GPs to higher antibiotic and strong opioid prescribing, especially in more deprived areas of the North of England.

News • Seniors’ use of antibiotics halved

Study shows benefits of antibiotic stewardship in UTI management

An international study has shown how a decision tool for health professionals has proved capable of halving the use of antibiotics against urinary tract infections while maintaining patient safety.

Article • Inks and polymers

3D printed pharmaceuticals for personalized therapies

60 percent of all administered drugs do not have the desired therapeutic effect. Even worse: in Germany alone about 60,000 deaths per year are caused by medication. With these shocking statistics Professor Dr Christian Franken started his presentation on “Pills from the 3D printer” at last year’s Medica in Düsseldorf. He hopes that his vision of personalized medication based on 2D and 3D…

News • A chatbot to replace GPs?

ChatGPT does a surprisingly solid job at prescribing the right meds, but...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have tested whether the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT could be used to make decisions about prescribing patients with antibiotics.

News • Personalised medicine

DNA-matching medication reduces side effects by 30%

According to an international group of researchers led by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), patients experience 30% fewer serious side effects when medication doses are tailored to their DNA.

News • Sustainability assessment

EU laws need to look at the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals, study finds

Current EU regulation does not adequately consider the environmental emissions of pharmaceuticals in global manufacturing supply chains, a recent study from Finland concludes.

News • A winning combination

‘Cocktail’ vaccines to offer protection against future Covid-19 variants

Covid-19 vaccinations that combine two or more distinct variants of SARS-CoV-2 could offer protection against current and future ‘variants of concern’, say scientists from UK and Austria.

News • Study on meth, cannabis, cocaine and opiate use

Illicit drugs linked with atrial fibrillation

Methamphetamines, cocaine, opiates, and cannabis are associated with an increased likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation, a newly-published 11-year study shows.

News • Coronavirus countermeasures

Long Covid: referral drop suggests vaccine effectiveness

Referrals to Cambridge’s long Covid clinic fell dramatically in the period August 2021 to June 2022, which researchers say is likely due to the successful rollout of the vaccine.

News • Resistance building prevention

New test to reduce antibiotics in primary care

Antibiotic prescribing in primary care could be monitored using health insurance data. And reduced with a simple test.

News • Drug delivery research

'Tunneling' capsule to enable oral insulin intake

A newly developed capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.

News • Blood-brain barrier simulation

Artificial brain vessels advance drug testing

German researchers present a novel method for testing chemical agents that could help in the development of drugs against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

News • Extended treatment

New trial doubles down on antibiotics against life threatening infections

Hospital patients who develop infections where 10% of sufferers die will be offered double the traditional course of antibiotics in a new trial.

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