Can we use psychoactive drugs to treat pruritus?

Can We Use Nanotechnology to Treat Cancer?

Could the next big change in cancer treatment actually be tiny? There are many reasons that cancer is such a difficult disease to treat. Scientists can either try to come up with new and better cancer medicines or they can find better ways for cancer patients to receive their medicines. This paper describes a possible new way to deliver cancer medicines using something called nanoparticles – ti...

Nalfurafine hydrochloride to treat pruritus: a review

Uremic pruritus has a great negative influence on quality of life in hemodialysis (HD) patients and, importantly, negatively affects mortality risk. Recently, nalfurafine hydrochloride, an opioid κ-selective agonist, has been officially approved for resistant pruritus in HD patients on the basis of a well-evidenced clinical trial in Japan. From clinical observation, it has been suggested that t...

Providing outpatient prescription drugs through Medicare: can we afford to? Can we afford not to?

Can We Use Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Brain and Spinal Cord Injury and Disease?

The potential use of human embryonic stem cells for the treatment of neurological disease and injury is discussed from the perspectives of two common disease scenarios. Spinal cord injury and diseases such as multiple sclerosis that affect specific cell types in the spinal cord represent a substantial proportion of all neuropathologies and are among the most heavily targeted by efforts to estab...

[Use of psychoactive drugs in a health and welfare centre].

OBJECTIVE To analyse the use of psychoactive drugs in a health and welfare centre and compare this use with current guidelines. METHOD A cross-sectional study of the drug treatment regime of hospitalised patients in a health and welfare centre was carried out. Information was obtained from prescriptions and the clinical histories of patients in the centre. The following variables were assesse...