NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. SPORANOX® CAPSULES Itraconazole Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about SPORANOX capsules. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. All […]
Antroquoril
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Tilade
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Perindo Combi
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Jardiamet
NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. JARDIAMET CMI0158-11 Film-coated tablets empagliflozin / metformin hydrochloride Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about Jardiamet. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your […]
Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
Tityus serrulatus, the Yellow scorpion, causes more deaths than any other venomous animal in Brazil. Its sting can induce heart attack and pulmonary edema, especially in children and the elderly. According to the Brazilian Health Ministry, more than 156,000 cases of scorpion envenomation, 169 fatal, were reported in the country in 2019. Researchers at the […]
New insights into the control of inflammation
Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered that Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1), a protein that turns on and off specific genes during blood cell development, inhibits expression of pro-inflammatory genes in macrophages. As part of their function to protect the body against pathogens, macrophages play a major role in initiation, maintenance, and resolution of inflammation. […]
Blood vessel damage, inflammation in Covid-19 patients’ brains: Study
A team of researchers from National Institutes of Health, in an in-depth study of how Covid-19 affects a patient’s brain, have consistently spotted hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples. These damage hallmarks were spotted in patients who died shortly after contracting the disease. In addition, they saw […]
New vaccine design reduces inflammation, enhances protection
Adjuvants are a key ingredient of many modern vaccines, working to unleash an immune response that helps protect the body from disease. Many scientists believe that adjuvants are they key to developing new kinds of vaccines for hard-to-vaccinate viruses, like HIV. But adjuvants can cause inflammation at the injection site, as well as side effects […]
Worm extract found to reduce inflammation in mouse models
A team of researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia has found that a substance isolated from roundworm larvae was able to reduce inflammation in the airways of mice. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group describes extracting a protein from a type of parasite that infects rodents and used […]