New Method Of Treatment Glaucoma.
Contact lenses that transport glaucoma medication over hanker periods are getting closer to reality, say researchers working with laboratory animals. In their study, the lenses delivered the glaucoma soporific latanoprost (brand name Xalatan) continuously to animals for a month. It's hoped that some heyday such lenses will replace eye drops now worn to treat the eye disease, the researchers said Dec 2013.
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Saturday 7 January 2017
Scientists Oppose The Use Of Antibiotics For Livestock Rearing
Scientists Oppose The Use Of Antibiotics For Livestock Rearing.
As experts go on to unscathed alarm bells about the rising resistance of microbes to antibiotics second-hand by humans, the United States Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday Dec 2013 announced it was curbing the use of the drugs in livestock nationwide. "FDA is issuing a project today, in collaboration with the monster health industry, to phase out the use of medically important for treating human infections antimicrobials in scoff animals for production purposes, such as to enhance growth rates and improve feeding efficiency," Michael Taylor, reserve commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the agency, said during a Wednesday forenoon press briefing. Experts have long stressed that the overuse of antibiotics by the meat and poultry activity gives dangerous germs such as Staphylococcus and C difficile a prime breeding ground to unfold mutations around drugs often used by humans.
But for years, millions of doses of antibiotics have been added to the nourish or water of cattle, poultry, hogs and other animals to produce fatter animals while using less feed. To appraise and limit this overuse, the FDA is asking pharmaceutical companies that make antibiotics for the husbandry industry to change the labels on their products to limit the use of these drugs to medical purposes only. At the same time, the intervention will be phasing in broader oversight by veterinarians to insure that the antibiotics are used only to premium and prevent illness in animals and not to enhance growth.
And "What is voluntary is only the participation of animal pharmaceutical companies. Once these labeling changes have been made, these products will only be able to be hand-me-down for therapeutic reasons with veterinary oversight. With these changes, there will be fewer approved uses of these drugs and residual uses will be under tighter control". The most prevalent antibiotics used in feed and also prescribed for humans affected by the supplemental rule include tetracycline, penicillin and the macrolides, according to the FDA.
Two companies, Zoetis (Pfizer's animal-drug subsidiary) and Elanco, have the largest appropriate of the animal antibiotic market. Both have said they will put one's signature on on to the FDA's program. There was some initial praise for FDA's move. "We commend FDA for taking the prime steps since 1977 to broadly reduce antibiotic overuse in livestock," Laura Rogers, who directs the Pew Charitable Trusts' good-natured health and industrial farming campaign, said in a statement.
As experts go on to unscathed alarm bells about the rising resistance of microbes to antibiotics second-hand by humans, the United States Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday Dec 2013 announced it was curbing the use of the drugs in livestock nationwide. "FDA is issuing a project today, in collaboration with the monster health industry, to phase out the use of medically important for treating human infections antimicrobials in scoff animals for production purposes, such as to enhance growth rates and improve feeding efficiency," Michael Taylor, reserve commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the agency, said during a Wednesday forenoon press briefing. Experts have long stressed that the overuse of antibiotics by the meat and poultry activity gives dangerous germs such as Staphylococcus and C difficile a prime breeding ground to unfold mutations around drugs often used by humans.
But for years, millions of doses of antibiotics have been added to the nourish or water of cattle, poultry, hogs and other animals to produce fatter animals while using less feed. To appraise and limit this overuse, the FDA is asking pharmaceutical companies that make antibiotics for the husbandry industry to change the labels on their products to limit the use of these drugs to medical purposes only. At the same time, the intervention will be phasing in broader oversight by veterinarians to insure that the antibiotics are used only to premium and prevent illness in animals and not to enhance growth.
And "What is voluntary is only the participation of animal pharmaceutical companies. Once these labeling changes have been made, these products will only be able to be hand-me-down for therapeutic reasons with veterinary oversight. With these changes, there will be fewer approved uses of these drugs and residual uses will be under tighter control". The most prevalent antibiotics used in feed and also prescribed for humans affected by the supplemental rule include tetracycline, penicillin and the macrolides, according to the FDA.
Two companies, Zoetis (Pfizer's animal-drug subsidiary) and Elanco, have the largest appropriate of the animal antibiotic market. Both have said they will put one's signature on on to the FDA's program. There was some initial praise for FDA's move. "We commend FDA for taking the prime steps since 1977 to broadly reduce antibiotic overuse in livestock," Laura Rogers, who directs the Pew Charitable Trusts' good-natured health and industrial farming campaign, said in a statement.
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Research On Animals Has Shown That Women Are More Prone To Stress
Research On Animals Has Shown That Women Are More Prone To Stress.
When it comes to stress, women are twice as disposed to as men to come to light stress-induced disease, such as glumness and/or post-traumatic stress, and now a new study in rats could worker researchers understand why. The team has uncovered evidence in animals that suggests that males further from having a protein that regulates and diminishes the brain's stress signals - a protein that females lack. What's more, the crew uncovered what appears to be a molecular double-whammy, noting that in animals a younger protein that helps process such stress signals more effectively - conception them more potent - is much more effective in females than in males.
The differing dynamics, reported online June 15 in the newspaper Molecular Psychiatry, have so far only been observed in male and female rats. However, Debra Bangasser of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and colleagues suggest that if this psychopathology is at long last reflected in humans it could assume command to the development of new drug treatments that target gender-driven differences in the molecular processing of stress.
When it comes to stress, women are twice as disposed to as men to come to light stress-induced disease, such as glumness and/or post-traumatic stress, and now a new study in rats could worker researchers understand why. The team has uncovered evidence in animals that suggests that males further from having a protein that regulates and diminishes the brain's stress signals - a protein that females lack. What's more, the crew uncovered what appears to be a molecular double-whammy, noting that in animals a younger protein that helps process such stress signals more effectively - conception them more potent - is much more effective in females than in males.
The differing dynamics, reported online June 15 in the newspaper Molecular Psychiatry, have so far only been observed in male and female rats. However, Debra Bangasser of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and colleagues suggest that if this psychopathology is at long last reflected in humans it could assume command to the development of new drug treatments that target gender-driven differences in the molecular processing of stress.
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