Feature Channels: Pharmaceuticals

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The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) announced its opposition to additional Medicare payment cuts included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Within the fee schedule, CMS proposed Medicare payment cuts to the Anesthesia Conversion Factor and in revised injection codes where imaging is now bundled – reductions that compound the financial strain anesthesia groups are already facing.

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Kurtis Carsch was awarded the Hertz Foundation's Thesis Prize for discovering and providing substantial insight into how to bypass some of the most wasteful and energy-intensive steps in the chemical reactions carried out to create medicines.

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A study of a herpes virus that infects chickens offers new insights into potentially problematic interactions between vaccines made from live viruses and the viruses they are meant to thwart.

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Receptors found on cell surfaces bind to hormones, proteins, and other molecules, helping cells respond to their environment.

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Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making between doctor and patient.

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New research suggests that providing a break in treatment to patients with advanced bowel cancer could not only benefit a patient’s quality of life but could also help save £1.2 billion for the National Health Service in England.

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The July issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology highlights new clinical science including using a smartphone app to assess stool form, rural-urban disparities in cirrhosis mortality, and lung infection risk in severe alcohol-related hepatitis. This issue also includes articles on pediatric IBD, therapy options for Crohn’s disease, a novel endoscopic suturing device, proton pump inhibitors, and more.

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UNC School of Medicine scientists discovered that hepatitis A viral replication requires specific interactions between a human protein and a group of enzymes, and they used a molecule to stop replication at this key interactive step, making it impossible for the virus to infect liver cells.

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Cannabinoid vaping products, genomic biomarkers to determine tumorigenic potential, and analyses of various testing assays are just a few of the article topics in the July 2022 issue of Toxicological Sciences.

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After returning from their trip into space, tablets subjected to the harsh effects of cosmic radiation have shown some unexpected results: those with increased aroma were not degraded as much as those with less taste.

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A small tweak to hospitals’ prescribing systems might make a big difference in reducing risk from leftover opioid pain medication, while still making sure surgery patients get relief from their post-operation pain, a new study suggests.

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The UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive released more than 114,000 documents related to McKinsey & Company's work showing how they advised opioid makers to help increase sales, despite the growing public outcry over the opioid epidemic.

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In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, new UVA Health research reveals that a factory-calibrated continuous glucose monitor (CGM) may be sufficiently accurate for use by people on dialysis, a group often plagued by dangerous swings in blood-sugar levels.

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Cleveland's University Hospitals patients with strokes are being given tenecteplase, a faster-acting drug than alteplase (tPA), which has been a mainstay since the 1990s.