Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
According to JAMA, one third of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) starting receiving etanercept treatment demonstrated excellent responses. Etanercept, approved 10 years ago by the U.S. FDA and European Agency for the treatment of JIA, is linked to younger age at the onset of JIA, low measures of disability ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Marijuana is increasingly becoming the drug of choice among young adults in the United States, while use of methamphetamines is waning, according to a national survey of drug use released on Thursday.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
The week will see the first U.N. World Hepatitis Day, called by the international body to raise awareness of the viral disease, largely spread by contaminated water and food, blood, semen and other body fluids. Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) were recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to improve upon the "seek, test, treat, and retain" paradigm in Eastern Europe among HIV-infected Russian and Eastern European injection drug ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
The birth rate for U.S. teenage girls declined for a second year in 2009, while the rate of drug use among eighth graders edged higher, according to the latest government report on child well-being.
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