Managing menopause: treating hot flushes without hormones
Menopausal hot flushes drive one in five women to seek help, but the first choice of treatment — hormone replacementContinue Reading
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Personalising antidepressants: should we be genetic testing?
Some health systems are already using pharmacogenomic testing to help tailor treatment for depression, but experts say the evidence forContinue Reading
Could universal coronavirus vaccines avert another pandemic?
Experimental universal coronavirus vaccines target multiple related viruses, with the aim of warding off other pandemics before they can wreakContinue Reading
Women with epilepsy continue to face treatment dilemmas
For women with epilepsy, seizure control during pregnancy is a moving target, and with increasing knowledge about the risks ofContinue Reading
CAR-T therapy advances in multiple myeloma
CAR-T therapies have been licensed in the UK since 2018 for the treatment of B cell lymphoma. But with positiveContinue Reading
A cloud of doubt over the sunshine vitamin
Negative results in recent trials of vitamin D supplementation have led researchers to question the best way of reaching those who are deficient.
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A turning point for fish oils and cardiovascular disease?
The use of fish oils to improve cardiovascular health has been in and out of favour for decades, but positiveContinue Reading
Tipping the scales
As obesity levels rise, pharmacists need new methods to help them get dosing right. Read this story at Pharmaceutical Journal.
Striving to stall Parkinson’s disease
First described 200 years ago, Parkinson’s disease remains without a cure. After many failed clinical trials, researchers are getting backContinue Reading
Cannabis for epilepsy
Parents of children with treatment-resistant epilepsy are searching for something to help, and some are turning to cannabis to tryContinue Reading
Personalized depression treatment on the horizon?
When a patient seeks help for depression, the doctor plays a primitive guessing game to find an effective antidepressant. It takesContinue Reading
Autism: in search of new drug targets
Genetic discoveries have invigorated autism research and raised the possibility of finding drug targets based on autism’s underlying pathophysiology, ratherContinue Reading
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