FMI Inc. FMI Inc. announced the official opening of their medical silicone molding manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China. The company has built the state-of-the-art clean room as an addition to the facility owned and operated since 2004 ...
Tags: medical devices, Health, Medicine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of Cefaly -- a battery-powered plastic headband that is a preventative treatment for migraine headaches. Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation at the FDA's ...
Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
Tags: prescriptions, Health&Medicine, care visits
Pharmaceuticals manufacturer Pfizer Inc. said Sunday certain lots of the antidepressant Effexor will be recalled after another medication was found in a bottle. Thirty-count and 90-count bottles of Effexor XR 150 milligram ...
By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Research shows that patients with bipolar I disorder have reduced white matter integrity, including in the corpus callosum, which connects the brain's hemispheres. Furthermore, reduced ...
Tags: Interhemispheric, Bipolar Disorder
Acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter products such as Excedrin and Tylenol, provides many people with relief from headaches and sore muscles. When used appropriately, it is considered mostly harmless. Over recent decades, the drug, ...
UC San Francisco and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) have opened a unique Walgreens store today on the UCSF campus that aims to improve medication safety, decrease health care costs and help patients use medicines more effectively by ...
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing researchers are recruiting women for a study to better understand how early life adversity and stress over one's lifetime are related to risk of developing heart disease and ...
Tags: difficult life experiences, greater inflammation, psychosocial factors
A selection of health policy stories from Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, California, Colorado and Florida. The Associated Press: Ky. Senate Passes Bill Creating Malpractice Panels A panel of medical experts would review ...
Tags: Whistleblower Case, Malpractice Panel, Woman Health, Low-Income Adult
Giving intravenous magnesium to stroke patients soon after the start of symptoms, in an attempt to protect brain cells deprived of oxygen, failed to improve stroke-related disability 3 months later, according to research presented at the ...
Tags: Intravenous Magnesium, Stroke-Related Disability, Stroke Therapy
Pass codes, phone numbers, social security numbers, clothing sizes and addresses. We all have a lot of numbers in our heads, but heart experts at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center say there are five more you need to know to ...
Tags: keep cardiovascular system healthy, healthy BMI, heart disease
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Acetaminophen, a commonly used drug for pain and fever during pregnancy, may be linked to attention-deficit hyperactivity-like behavior, U. S. researchers say. Study author Zeyan Liew of the University of ...
Tags: Acetaminophen, Pregnant, Medicine
With world's first automated blood pressure management system developed by KK Women's and Children's Hospital New trial results have shown that the world's first Double Intravenous Vasopressor Automated (DIVA) System affords superior ...
Tags: KKH, DIVA, Prof Sia, Blood Pressure Management