FDA approves Intrarosa for postmenopausal women experiencing pain during sex
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Intrarosa (prasterone) to treat women experiencing moderate to severe pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia), a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy (VVA), due to menopause. Intrarosa is the first FDA approved product containing the active ingredient prasterone, which is also known as dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA).
Navy Surgeon General Announces New Strategic Priorities
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Falls Church, Virginia - The U.S. Navy's top doctor announced new strategic priorities for Navy Medicine, today.
Research on new, rapid screening test identifies potential therapies against drug-resistant bacteria
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Washington, DC - Researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Clinical Center and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have created a new way to identify drugs and drug combinations that may potentially be useful in combating infections that are resistant to many different antibiotics. They developed an assay (test) to rapidly screen thousands of drugs to determine how effective they were against a variety of types of resistant bacteria.
Fall prevention
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Rochester, Minnesota - Falls are the leading cause of injuries for older Americans. Falls not only threaten seniors’ safety, but also their independence.
Seasonal affective disorder
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Rochester, Minnesota - Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that's related to changes in seasons — SAD begins and ends at about the same times every year. If you're like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody. Less often, SAD causes depression in the spring or early summer.
Foreseeing the future of vaccines
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Rochester, Minnesota - Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means to stop the spread of infectious diseases. Today the same concepts are being called upon for new disease threats including Ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the continued reemergence of diseases such as influenza strains that have existing but problematic vaccines.
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