May 22, 2018 –The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just released a Safety Alert concerning serious neural tube defects that might arise in babies born to women who took HIV medications that contained the active ingredient Dolutegravir. Neural tube defects are birth defects that can occur early in pregnancy when the spinal cord,
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May 15, 2018 –An increasing number of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are opting for multigene sequencing instead of the more limited testing for only BRCA1/ BRCA2 mutations, according to a new report.
The findings come from the ICanCAre study,
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May 13, 2018 – Researchers have uncovered 17 genetic variants linked to different depression-related phenotypes in a large genome-wide association study, including variants near genes involved in neurotransmission and synapse function.
The first author of the study, David Howard, Center for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh,
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May 10, 2018 – A seemingly higher incidence of prostate cancer and resulting fatalities in African-American men than in European-Amcerican men has been noted for quite some time. New research published in Molecular Oncology may help explain why African American men are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and a higher risk of dying from the disease compared with European American men.
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May 06, 2018 – In April 2016 the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took regulatory action by mandating label changes with new warnings about an increased risk of heart failure for new diabetes medicines in the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor drug class, including Saxagliptin (Onglyza),
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May 05, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved the combination of Dabrafenib (Tafinlar)/Trametinib (Mekinist) to be administered together for the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic),
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May 04, 2018 – All natural is healthy. This is a common belief for many, particularly when shopping for alternative medicines and dietary supplements. For many, however, the contrary might be fatally true.
As a point in case, new research shows, that substances in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can cause severe cardiac arrhythmia.
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March 31, 2018 – Are patients ready for direct-to-consumer genetic testing? This was the very important and central question that came up in the article by Matt Smith on Medscape, published March 29, 2018.
Since thasso is all about theragenomic and personalized medicine and individualized drug safety (i.e.
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February 15, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just permitted marketing of the Viz.AI Contact application, a type of clinical decision support software designed to analyze computed tomography (CT) results that may notify providers of a potential stroke in their patients.
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