Jun 17, 2019
Faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) involves the medically supervised and coordinated transplant of feacal organisms from one human to another for therapeutic purposes. This medical procedure is still in its early days, and first reports of serious adverse effects have...
Jun 17, 2019
For many years sodium polystyrene sulfonate, a cation exchange resin marketed in Australia as Resonium A, has been the mainstay technique for the reduction of the serum potassium concentration for people with significant hyperkalaemia. In a recent Canadian study,...
Jun 15, 2019
There continues to be grave safety concerns involving adverse effects of gabapentinoid medications (especially gabapentin and pregabalin), and in this context Swedish researchers have conducted a major pharmacoepidemiological study of 191 973 people from the Swedish...
Jun 14, 2019
An online survey of adults and parents of children 5 to 17 years with asthma in Australia was completed by 792 adult patients and 609 parents of children (5-10 years 51%) with asthma. Cost-related under use of medication was reported by 52.9% adults and 34.3% parents,...
Jun 14, 2019
Danish researchers have recently concluded that the widely used topical corticosteroids used to treat skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. They examined data from two matched case-control studies and one...
Jun 12, 2019
Data from questionnaires from 160,812 people (aged ≥12 years) about prescription opioid misuse and alcohol consumption were assessed in a recent study that analysed self-reported past-30-days prescription opioid misuse by sociodemographic characteristics, other...
