medicine
From diets to fitness apps, consumers are ready to spend money (to the tune of $13,493 per year on average) on staying healthy, exercising, eating well, and losing weight. Weight loss treatments, in particular, have been making a market disruption in recent months, thanks to the growing conversation around GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Although roughly 1 in 8 Americans are reported to have used GLP-1 drugs to achieve their health goals, half experience intense side effects. What’s more is over 70% of users are not able to go beyond the year mark with their treatment for this very reason...
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In the last decade, Ben has taken part in 15 paid clinical trials. The 37-year-old from Cambridge in the UK became a human guinea pig for the reason most people do: money. “I’d had my first child, and the childcare bill was more than I was earning per month. So I did trials using my annual leave entitlement to earn some extra cash,” Ben told Euronews Health. The very first trial he participated in was for an anti-inflammatory drug and run by Quotient Sciences, a UK-based drug development company. “(Quotient Sciences) were a really great team who explained the trial and risks to me fully. I had...
Euronews (English)
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has ordered the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall to supply eight additional Forward Surgical Team stations (FST) for the country's army, the company said on Aug. 9. The FSTs are container-based rescue units for mounted operations that are intended for use on the frontline. The systems are equipped with modern medical equipment, including an X-ray container, operating room and intensive care unit, in line with the standards of a modern hospital, the company said. The order is part of a German government initiative and is expected to be completed by end 2026. "The ...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has ordered the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall to supply eight additional Forward Surgical Team stations (FST) for the country's army, the company said on Aug. 9. The FSTs are container-based rescue units for mounted operations that are intended for use on the frontline. The systems are equipped with modern medical equipment, including an X-ray container, operating room and intensive care unit, in line with the standards of a modern hospital, the company said. The order is part of a German government initiative and is expected to be completed by end 2026. "The ...
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has ordered the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall to supply eight additional Forward Surgical Team stations (FST) for the country's army, the company said on Aug. 9. The FSTs are container-based rescue units for mounted operations that are intended for use on the frontline. The systems are equipped with modern medical equipment, including an X-ray container, operating room and intensive care unit, in line with the standards of a modern hospital, the company said. The order is part of a German government initiative and is expected to be completed by end 2026. "The ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla Thomas and six other researchers at Bristol Medical School in England, also calculated prevalence rates for "signs and symptoms" of D&OUD (29.6 percent), "aberrant behavior" (22 percent), and those deemed "at risk" of D&OUD (12.4 percent). They conclude that "problematic pharmaceutical opioid use appears to be common in chronic pain patients treated with opioid analgesics, with nearly one in 10 ex...
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Fran Fernández's life changed completely on a summer day seven years ago in Algeciras, southern Spain. On 5 August 2017, he was hit by an explosion that burned 75% of his skin. When he arrived at the hospital, Fran was given no more than 48 hours to live, but today he has recovered thanks to more than a dozen operations and several grafts of both his own and artificial skin. The Spanish Medicines Agency has approved using artificial human skin, or cultured skin, for therapy at Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville in June. It is the first facility in Spain to apply the advanced therapy dubbed "...
Euronews (English)
Researchers have found a way to increase the healthy lifespan of mice. By “switching off” a key inflammatory protein called interleukin 11 (IL-11), they managed to extend their lifespan by more than 20 per cent and reduce age-related disease. The researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and the Imperial College London in the UK published their findings in the journal Nature. The project originated in 2017 when a collaborator sent tissue samples for a separate task. The data revealed a clear increase in IL-11 with age, which sparked more research and prompted their 2018 discovery o...
Euronews (English)
You probably have never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine) (DOI), let alone heard that it is commonly abused. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban the synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical that has figured in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category supposedly reserved for drugs with a high abuse potential and no recognized medical applications—drugs so dangerous that they cannot be used safely, even under a doctor's supervision. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated ...
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Europe is currently facing a shortage of organs, leading to increasingly long waiting lists for transplants. As well as improving the quality of life of their recipients, transplants also help save money for public health systems. For example, a kidney transplant recipient costs Spain €30,000 less per year than a patient on dialysis, according to the Spanish National Transplant Organisation. The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU has now introduced a new proposal aimed at increasing "organ availability, enhancing efficiency and accessibility in transplant systems, and improving qual...
Euronews (English)
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