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How Do EpiPens Work?
The price of EpiPens has increased more than 400 percent since 2007. People who need to keep them on hand — often because they may need the emergency drug in case they have a life-threatening allergic reaction — brought the price increase to light, and eventually it reached Congress: In a letter to Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa has now asked the company to explain its pricing.
But how do EpiPens work?
EpiPens are a type of epinephrine auto-injector, which means they work by automatically injecting a dose of the hormone epinephrine (also called adrenaline) into a person&rsq...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 26, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
This EpiPen News Is Part of A Disturbing Trend
The TV was on as we sat waiting to be called in for our check-up. My son, who is 11, turned his head as he heard the anchor use the word “EpiPen.” He is in tune since he has a life threatening peanut allergy and the EpiPen has saved his life. His face was full of emotion as he listened to the anchor talk about how some people could no longer afford this life-saving device. He shook his head and said “Mom, that can’t be right, they can’t be right, can they, everyone who needs an EpiPen should have one.”
The media has exploded as word spread of some parents paying well ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 26, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
EpiPen's 500 Percent Price Hike Leaves Patients Scrambling
The EpiPen, an easy-to-use injectable shot filled with medicine that can stop a life-threatening allergic reaction, has increased in price from about $100 for a pack of two pens in 2009 to over $600 this year.
Pharmaceutical company Mylan purchased the rights to the pen back in 2007, and it appears that they’ve taken a page from “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli and re-priced their newly acquired product. That is, they’ve spiked prices for no apparent research and development reason related to the product, except perhaps to make up for the tens of millions of dollars they’ve spent on TV commercials ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eosinophils, galectins, and a reason to breathe Immunology and Inflammation
Asthma is a common and incurable inflammatory respiratory disease leading to wheezing, shortness of breath, and cough, that affects nearly 300 million people worldwide (1). Although the precise molecular cause of asthma remains unknown, diverse risk factors including environmental allergies, chronic sinusitis, gastrointestinal reflux disease, obesity, and respiratory virus infection...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - August 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Rosenberg, H. F., Druey, K. M. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research
Voodoo Medicine: Time To Stop
The world's most celebrated athlete standing on the podium in Rio in honor of receiving yet another gold medal has something important in common with your lazy uncle throwing back a cold one in his Barcalounger. Yes, swimming powerhouse Michael Phelps, purple-spotted from cupping therapy, and your slovenly relative with a beer gut both share a bond -- a weakness in succumbing to the allure of voodoo medicine. Modern-day snake oil salesmen hawking quick cures and TV doctors peddling the latest diet miracle with blatantly ridiculous claims are everywhere on the tube, social media, the supermarket and old-fashioned billboards...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
"It's A Scandal" -Daryl Hall on Doctors Denying Chronic Lyme
Growing up a musically-obsessed child in the 80's, Daryl Hall was one of my biggest inspirations. A masterful, inventive songwriter with an ocean of soul, he set me on the path to being an artist, to never waste a word, and to sing because I mean it.
With six number ones and five additional top ten hits throughout the 70's and 80's Daryl Hall and John Oates are the number one duo in music history. Still at the top of his game at 69 years old, Daryl has won legions of new fans with his hit MTV Live show Live From Daryl's House.
In February of 2015, at my very sickest from chronic Lyme and Bartonella, after it was missed b...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 22, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
So THAT'S How To Tell If There's Mold In Your Home
We hate to break it to you, but if you don’t think there’s mold in your home, then you’re probably wrong.
Mold is everywhere: It thrives indoors and outdoors all year round, wherever conditions are wet and warm. You may have heard scary stories about “dangerous black mold” that requires a total home overhaul to eliminate. But we’re here to tell you that while a serious issue, most types of household mold are easier to handle than you think. Consider the facts:
Mold is everywhere, but it might not be making you sick.
There are at least tens of thousands of varieties of mol...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 21, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
That New Study Linking Nail Biting To Fewer Allergies Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does
This study aligns with past research that finds, for instance, that babies whose parents suck their pacifiers to “clean” them (passing oral microbes from the adult to the infant) are less likely to develop eczema and asthma in toddlerhood.
Malcolm Sears, a professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada and a co-author on the paper, wants to emphasize that this paper wasn’t designed to recommend whether or not a parent should encourage nail biting or thumb sucking. Instead, he simply described it as an observation that adds to scientific knowledge of the potential causal connection between ex...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Next iPhone Update Will Help You Save Lives
If you update your iPhone to iOS 10 this fall, you'll gain access to a very special new feature: The ability to register as an organ donor directly from the device's built-in Health app.
The app already allows users to include a lot of important information for first responders. For example, you can list existing medical conditions, prescriptions and allergies, along with emergency contact information.
Once iOS 10 comes out, the app will let you "sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor," Apple and Donate Life America said in a press release Tuesday.
The sign-up process supposedly takes "just a few ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 5, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Allergy-causing 'bad guy' cells unexpectedly prove life-saving in C. difficile
Researchers have identified immune cells vital for protecting us from potentially deadly C. difficile. Surprisingly, those cells are often vilified for their role in causing asthma and allergies. But when it comes to C. difficile, they could be the difference in life and death.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
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Source: Scientific and Medical Events on Global Events List - June 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: events
Understanding how chemical changes in the brain affect Alzheimer's disease
A new study is helping to explain why the long-term use of common anticholinergic drugs used to treat conditions like allergies and overactive bladder lead to an increased risk of developing dementia later in life. The study used mouse models to show that long-term suppression of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine -- a target for anticholinergic drugs -- results in dementia-like changes in the brain.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 22, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Mice fed more fiber have less severe food allergies
The development of food allergies in mice can be linked to what their gut bacteria are being fed, reports a new study. Rodents that received a diet with average calories, sugar, and fiber content had more severe peanut allergies than those that received a high-fiber diet. The researchers show that gut bacteria release a specific fatty acid in response to fiber intake, which eventually impacts allergic responses via changes to the immune system.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 21, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Pollen allergies have increased among Swedish adults
The prevalence of pollen allergies among adults in Sweden has increased. However, the prevalence of allergies to furred animals, mites or mold has not, new research shows.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 21, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Biotech firm's shares plummet as cat-allergy trial fails
Circassia Pharmaceuticals loses two-thirds of its value after significant placebo effect halts vaccine for sufferersAn Oxford company hailed as a star of British biotechnology lost almost two-thirds of its stock market value on Monday after it revealed that its experimental cat allergy treatment had failed in a late-stage trial.Circassia Pharmaceuticals floated on the stock exchange in 2014 and was seen as one of the great hopes of the sector for its research into cat allergies, which affect 24 million people in the US alone. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 20, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Sean Farrell Tags: Pharmaceuticals industry Stock markets UK news Science Allergies Business Society Cats Life and style Pets Animals Source Type: news
