Feature Channels: Addiction

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Researchers know that youth with a family history of alcoholism have a greater risk of developing an alcohol use disorder; this heightened vulnerability may be due to impulsive behavior. For this study, researchers examined “waiting” impulsivity – a tendency toward prematurely responding to a reward, and previously associated with a predisposition to drinking. The study sample comprised young, moderate-to-heavy social drinkers who were either positive (FHP) or negative (FHN) for a family history of alcoholism. Impulsivity was assessed after an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink.

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UCLA experts are available for interviews about marijuana-related topics

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New research from the University of British Columbia suggests there may be some truth to the belief that marijuana use causes laziness-- at least in rats.

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Drug addicts and non-addicts may have more in common than ever thought, according to a researcher at Texas A&M University who found that to some degree, everyone’s brain is “wired” to become addicted.

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Expert can speak on the promise of vaccines to counter heroin addiction and broader efforts to address opioid addiction. Roger Crystal, M.D., CEO of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, has an interest in this area inspired by his company’s own efforts to develop opioid antagonist nasal sprays and other innovative formulations for the treatment of substance abuse disorders, addictive disorders and eating disorders.

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A new study aims to better understand what makes some individuals particularly vulnerable to developing drug addiction. A team of researchers from across the country will look at how genes that influence brain function cause risk for addictions. J. David Jentsch, Empire Innovation Professor of psychology at Binghamton University, is part of the team of investigators awarded a new grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct the research.

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Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that could be a drug target to help prevent tolerance and addiction to opioid pain medication, such as morphine, according to a study by Georgia State University and Emory University.

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Being homeless puts people at greater risk of HIV infection than those with stable housing, but targeting services to reduce risk behaviors is often complicated by fuzzy definitions of homelessness.

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An international team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has found strong evidence supporting a new strategy against drug addiction.

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An international team of researchers has developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain without triggering the dangerous side effects of current prescription painkillers. Their secret? Starting from scratch — with computational techniques that let them explore more than four trillion different chemical interactions.

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David Bradford's recent research showed medical marijuana is having a positive impact on the bottom line of Medicare's prescription drug benefit program.

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A new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, suggests increased levels of a molecule in the brain, called hypocretin, may contribute to cocaine addiction.

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A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo suggests that Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworkers may need to use a more all-encompassing approach to improve how they respond to cases of chronic neglect.

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More than a hundred years ago, Ivan Pavlov conducted what would become one of the most famous and influential psychology studies — he conditioned dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell. Now, scientists are able to see in real time what happens in the brains of live animals during this classic experiment with a new technique. Ultimately, the approach could lead to a greater understanding of how we learn, and develop and break addictions.

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Riverview Medical Center Foundation is honored to announce a gift of $120,000 from the Tigger House Foundation that will support the addition of an Addictions Counselor in the hospital’s emergency department. The majority of patients seeking help for addiction arrive in the Alton A. Hovnanian Emergency Care Center in a state of crisis. The addition of a licensed chemical dependency counselor would provide timely and critical assessment and outreach to patients during this severe time of need.

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Rats bred to abuse alcohol accumulated numerous genetic differences, many of which occurred in regulatory regions of the genome, reports Feng C. Zhou at Indiana University in Indianapolis and William Muir at Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana, and colleagues in a study published on August 4 in PLOS Genetics.

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Tutela Monitoring Systems has your solution to mobile cold chain protection

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There is a high rate of prescription pain reliever abuse in Europe, largely accounted by opioids, according to the first comparative study of prescription drug abuse in the European Union, which was conducted by researchers at RTI International and published in BMC Psychiatry.

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AACC welcomed thousands of medical professionals and healthcare leaders at the 68th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Philadelphia from July 31–August 4. The meeting featured pioneering advances in medical testing research and technology that will help patients get accurate diagnoses and more effective treatment. As of Wednesday, August 3, a total of 20,000 laboratory medicine professionals had registered for the meeting, which is a 14% increase over meeting attendance in 2015 and the highest number of attendees that have come to the meeting in the last four years. More attendees are expected today, the last day of the meeting.

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The Tutela Genesis II Temperature Monitoring System is the most intuitive and robust system yet from Tutela. Find out why so many have chosen Tutela to monitor their priceless inventory.

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Beckman Coulter Addresses Critical Factors for Clinical Laboratories to Move Healthcare Forward

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GlycoMark, Inc. announced it has partnered with Diazyme Laboratories to offer the first diabetes panel to test three different measures of glycemic control on one specimen. The panel includes assays that measure both intermediate-term and long-term glucose averages (Diazyme’s Glycated Serum Protein/GSP and Enzymatic HbA1c) along with GlycoMark—a test specifically related to hyperglycemia over a one- to two-week period. The announcement was made at the 68th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo.

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The first of its kind alliance provides Augusta University’s medical center with unprecedented access to the full suite of diagnostic products and world-class business services available from Beckman Coulter’s parent company, Danaher Corporation.

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This product allows you to test different particles to find which yield optimal performance characteristics in your specific system including cell isolations, affinity purifications, immunoassays, molecular assays.

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Pacific University (Ore.) Pharmacy Professor John Harrelson Awarded More Than $375,000 to Research New Therapies for Tobacco Addiction

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Tutela Monitoring Systems has been providing web-based scientific wireless temperature monitoring systems for over 20 years. Our customers trust us as their valued partner for their temperature monitoring needs.

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AutoSorter™ 1200 is Yaskawa Motoman’s newest high-speed sorting instrument for pre- and post-analytic specimen processing. Leveraging the previous model’s excellent record for reliability and speed, AutoSorter 1200 raises the bar on throughput at up to 1,200 tubes/hr.

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Yaskawa Motoman’s AutoSorter™ 2000BB bulk sorter has a new configuration available that can maintain frozen specimens in a -20°C environment during the sorting process. This enables automated sorting of most frozen specimens which previously required labor-intensive and error-prone manual handling.

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Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center are one step closer to understanding what causes cocaine to be so addictive.

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Loyola researchers have discovered a potential new health concern related to excessive alcohol consumption.Adults who drink excessively were found to have less nitric oxide in their exhaled breath than adults who don’t drink. Nitric oxide helps protect against certain harmful bacteria.

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Aalto Bio Reagents (ABR) Complements Its Zika Virus Proteins with Chikungunya and Dengue Virus antigens for the first Tri-Plex Offering

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Gold Standard Diagnostics, Corp. (GSD) announces a strategic alliance with R-Biopharm AG (Darmstadt, Germany) to collaborate on multiple technology and marketing initiatives that will leverage the companies’ respective strengths in expanding product offerings and geographic sales coverage.

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The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) sets global standard in collaboration with other international organizations as harmonization of methods in laboratory medicine is a means to improve patient safety

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eAcademy aims to make high quality educational modules available to Laboratory professionals and will provide a resource for individuals in their training, as well as for those involved in the planning and organisation of educational programmes.

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced its entry into the rapidly growing molecular diagnostics testing market with the launch of Amplichek™ II quality control, which was recently issued a de novo clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) as leading organization in the field of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine worldwide, strives to enhance the scientific level and the quality of diagnosis and therapy for patients throughout the world.

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced its continued expansion into the molecular diagnostics testing market with the launch of Amplichek™ I quality control, which was recently issued a 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of two human recombinant antigens, expanding the company’s portfolio of Critical Raw Materials for the in vitro diagnostics market.

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Based on the proven ASP sample processing platform extended with a specially designed card handler addcare provides an automated solution for Gel Card based applications.

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AUDIT MicroControls, Inc. is pleased to announce the following new addition to our complete line of calibration verification/linearity and daily quality control products: Linearity FD BNP (Extended). This product is intended to simulate human patient serum samples for the purpose of determining linearity, calibration verification and verification of reportable range.

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Awareness Technology, manufacturer of diagnostic ELISA, CLIA, Biochemistry, and ISE instruments and reagents announces the restructuring of its UAE branch office to improve access for all Asian markets.

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Addcare Bio-Tech provides advanced liquid handling systems, automated immunoassay workstations and customized systems. We create solutions for a wide range of applications by combining our proprietary liquid handling technology with a variety of platforms and modules, each designed to handle a specific task in the configuration.

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Awareness Technology, manufacturer of diagnostic ELISA, CLIA, Biochemistry, and ISE instruments and reagents, completed the development of ChemWell® 2. The new analyzer represents an evolution of the ChemWell® line of fully automated instruments applying the company’s innovative single-plate technology to a two-plate system. Unlike similar devices capable of processing both ELISA and CLIA assays in 96-well micro plates, ChemWell®2 offers increased flexibility to laboratory professionals by allowing random placement of ELISA and CLIA microstrips even within the same plate.

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Awareness Technology, manufacturer of diagnostic ELISA, CLIA, and Biochemistry instruments and reagents announces the worldwide launch of a new analyzer for measuring serum concentrations of sodium, potassium and chloride as a companion product to its line of biochemistry analyzers. Selectalyte, which is available both as a stand-alone instrument and as a module, was developed after many years of working with other similar devices and incorporating a number of significant improvements to ease of use, electrode stability, overall durability, precision, and convenience. The instrument and all its consumables, including a tri-level set of controls, are manufactured at Awareness Technology.

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Biomatrica, Inc., a producer of reagents and devices for sample collection and analysis in diagnostics systems, nucleic acid testing, and biobanking, announced today that it has received certification from British Standards Institution Group America, Inc. that the company complies with the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 for an integrated quality management system across all functions of the business, from design and development to manufacturing and supply.

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Boule Diagnostics AB has won a significant share of public tenders for a total of 329 hematology systems in Mexico in partnership with its Mexican distributors. The instruments will be delivered at the end of the second quarter and beginning of third quarter 2016. Some smaller follow-up orders are expected during the third quarter. The purchasing organisations have been IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social), the largest and most important public health system in the country, and ISSSTE (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado), the second largest public system in charge of providing health services to government employees.

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Compact KNF boxer diaphragm pumps feature an efficient two-heads-one-motor configuration. The alternating head operation results in smooth, level flow, reducing the need for additional dampening components for systems sensitive to pulsation. In an alternative mode, two different liquids are transferred simultaneously, eliminating the need for a second pump.

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KNF Neuberger introduces the “Big Sucker diaphragm pump, a high flow pump specifically designed for liquid/air mixture applications, such as emptying well plates and waste-liquid containers.

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Quiet, compact KNF Micro gas diaphragm pumps offer durable solutions for aspiration, waste-handling, anesthesia monitoring, tissue sampling, blood pressure gauges, negative wound therapy, and cleaning applications.