Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. Medications like dextromethorphan, used to treat coughs caused by cold and flu, could potentially be repurposed to help people quit smoking cigarettes, according to a study by Penn State College of Medicine and University of Minnesota researchers. They developed a novel machine learning method, where computer programs analyze data sets for patterns and trends, to identify the drugs and said that some of them are already being tested in clinical trials. Health News | Machine Learning Identifies Drugs to Help Smokers Quit.
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool to respond to Marburg virus outbreaks. Health News | Marburg Vaccine Shows Promising Results in First-in-human Study.
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. The current clinical practice guidelines lack evidence-based guidance on the effective management of acute dental pain. The National Academies report entitled "Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain", highlighted the need to formalize evidence-based alternatives to opioid analgesics in a clinical practice guideline. Health News | Researchers Suggest Pharmacologic Treatments for Managing Tooth Extraction Pain.
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. As per a new study, some patients with behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), an incurable condition that makes patients lose their ability to control their behaviour and cope with daily living, may instead have a cerebrospinal fluid leak, which is often treatable. Health News | Study Find out the Potential Cause of Dementia.
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC James) suggests a way to re-energize critical killer immune cells that have become exhausted when fighting cancer or chronic viral infections. Health News | Study Suggests Way to Re-energise Tired T Cells when Treating Cancer.