Undercover Colors detects date-rape drug.
Four college students from North Carolina State University have created a nail polish that may help protect the lives of college partiers everywhere. The polish — called “Undercover Colors” — will change shades if it becomes exposed to a drugged drink.
If addictive behaviors rewire the brain, the challenge is to erase these patterns of behavior.
Addictive substances are known to rewire the brain, but addictive behaviors do as well, according to a new article published in the journal Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews. It’s not just what is consumed, but what is experienced that can make the brain crave the experience in the same manner it can be taught to crave a drug.
Continue reading… “Mindfulness can erase brain patterns that lock addicts into a cycle of abuse”
Doctors could be offering children dangerous prescriptions that will affect them for the rest of their lives.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers have found that doctors are prescribing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication to more than 10,000 American toddlers between the ages of two and three.
Continue reading… “More than 10,000 toddlers in the U.S. are prescribed ADHD drugs”
FDA vouchers were created as an incentive to encourage drug companies to work on medicines for neglected diseases.
In March, when the Food and Drug Administration gave the OK to a new treatment for a parasitic disease called leishmaniasis, the Canadian company that owns the medicine got something that’s quite likely to prove even more valuable than U.S. sales of the drug will ever be.
Continue reading… “FDA vouchers encourage drug companies to focus on neglected diseases”
The brain is composed of neural fibers that connect various regions and enable them to communicate.
Over a million American students misuse prescription drugs in hopes of boosting their attention, memory or energy levels. But taking these drugs could cause long-term impairments in brain function, recent animal studies suggest.
Continue reading… “‘Smart drugs’ pose special risks to brain for students”
The wearable sensor stores and transmits motion data and delivers drugs.
A wearable device that is as thin as a temporary tattoo and can store and transmit data about a person’s movements, receive diagnostic information and release drugs into skin has been developed by researchers.
Continue reading… “Researchers create ‘electronic skin’ equipped with memory”
Placebo effect
Placebos are the miracle pills that shouldn’t really do anything. They come in all shapes and sizes, but they contain no active ingredient. And yet, mysteriously, they often seem to work.
Continue reading… “Placebos – the medicine in our minds”
The impact of most of these “chemicals of emerging concern” on the health of people and aquatic life remains unclear.
A new report by the International Joint Commission, a consortium of officials from the United States and Canada who study the Great Lakes has found that only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants.
Continue reading… “Only half of prescription drugs are removed by wastewater treatment plants”
The big money has moved from developing psychiatric drugs to manipulating our brain networks.
Has the psychiatric drug age reached its peak? Mind-altering drugs have are being prescribed in record numbers but there are signs of a radically new approach to understanding and treating mental illnesses. A huge research effort is now devoted to altering the function of specific neural circuits by physical intervention in the brain and the focus is no longer on developing drugs.
Continue reading… “Why neuroscience is ending the Prozac era”
The sponge-like matrix surrounds a reservoir of insulin or other drugs.
A new drug delivery technique has been developed by researchers for the treatment of diabetes in which a sponge-like material surrounds an insulin core.
Continue reading… “Injectable ‘smart sponge’ for controlled insulin delivery”
There were 80,000 drug and alcohol overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database. The database, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, keeps a tally of all the deaths listed on certificates nationwide. They’re classified by the ICD-10 medical coding reference system.
Continue reading… “The drugs that actually kill Americans: Infographic”
By rejecting patent applications, developing countries have kept down the costs of much-needed medications.
Gleevec, a leukemia drug, costs $70,000 per year in the United States, but only costs $2,500 in India. Why does that drug cost so much more in the U.S.?
Continue reading… “Why does chemotherapy cost $70k in the U.S., but only costs $2.5k in India?”
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