Amid high demand for GlaxoSmithKline's new shingles vaccine, healthcare providers are running out. Even though the company worked up what it calls a "fair and equitable" process to ship Shingrix doses, two U.S. senators are not satisfied and are urging the drugmaker do more to boost inventory levels.
Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Tina Smith, D-Minn., wrote&nbs...
Metformin found to help reverse lung fibrosis in mice
The type 2 diabetes drug metformin could be used to help treat lung fibrosis condition in the future, researchers have said.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or lung fibrosis is a respiratory disease which occurs when scars are formed in the lung tissues, leading to breathing problems. It can develop after lung injuri...
Some post-surgical wounds, including following abdominal surgeries and mastectomies, may require suction drainage to prevent post operative complications due to edema and fluid collections. Suction bulbs have been common for the past few decades, since they don’t require external power and are very simple in design. New technologies can significantly improve this, as batteries have become mo...
The treatment could relieve haemophilia B patients from factor IX replacement drugs
UniQure has enrolled the first patient in its registration trial of haemophilia B gene therapy candidate AMT-061 as it tries to keep ahead of a rival project from Spark Therapeutics/Pfizer.
The subject is the first out of around 50 subjects that will be recruited into the open-label HOPE-B trial of AMT-061, an a...