No more addiction to medicines, study underway.

Two University of Adelaide pharmacologists working with one the world’s leading neuroscientists have helped pave the way for the development of new pain-killing drugs that are not addictive. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide, Paul Rolan, and postdoctoral fellow Dr Mark Hutchinson are part of a combined US and Australian research team [...]

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Infant Cold Medicine Recall

NYtimes report that major makers of over-the-counter infant cough and cold medicines announced Thursday that they were withdrawing their products from the market for fear that they could be misused. The voluntary withdrawal, already under way, affects only products labeled for use in infants, not for use in children 2 and older. And some small [...]

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Nobel Prize in Medicine

Two American scientists and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating mouse genes. The widely used process has helped scientists use mice to study heart disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis and other diseases. The prize is shared by Mario R. [...]

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Alcohol and Breast Cancer

From CNN:
We’ve heard for nearly a decade about the benefits of alcohol — red wine in particular. It’s good for your heart and may have other positive effects. In moderation, we thought, it’s not only OK, but actually good for us. But now there’s a different risk to consider: New research appears to show a [...]

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