GENFIT: Potential For Combination Of GFT505 With Statins

GENFIT (Alternext: ALGFT; ISIN: FR0004163111), a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of drug discovery and development, focusing on the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, announces the absence of a safety risk due to pharmacokinetic drug-drug interaction when GFT505 is co-administered with a statin (GFT505-1095 clinical study)…

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Medical Care Technologies Inc. Commences Trials For Continuous Glucose Monitoring As Add-On

Medical Care Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: MDCE) today announced that it has commenced trials to include Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) to its current Tele-Health™ Suite. Management believes that by adding this function to its Tele-Health™ technology, users will be able to monitor and better control their diabetes while reducing costs…

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Belgian doctors give injured woman a new windpipe (AP)

AP – For more than a quarter of a century, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe.

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Data: US obesity rate high, but not rising (AP)

AP – Raise a glass of diet soda: The nation’s obesity rate appears to have stalled. But the latest numbers still show that more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of kids are overweight, with no sign of improvement.

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Don’t bank on weekend to make up for sleep loss (AP)

AP – Sleeping in on Saturday after a few weeks of too little shuteye may feel refreshing, but it can give a false sense of security.

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Scientists Crack Peanut Code In Children

Clinicians and scientists at UHSM (University Hospital South Manchester), the University of Manchester, and Phadia AB in Uppsala, Sweden have developed a new and significantly more accurate blood test for peanut allergy, which predicts whether an allergic reaction to peanuts will develop with more than 95 per cent certainty…

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Allergy Vaccinations Reduce Children’s Health Care Costs By One-Third

Allergy immunotherapy, generally referred to as allergy vaccinations or shots, reduce total health care costs in children with allergic rhinitis (hay fever) by one-third, and prescription costs by 16 percent, according to a study published this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and [...]

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Young Men Consuming An Alarming Amount Of Salt

Young Swedish men are consuming at least double the recommended amount of salt according to a study carried out by the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. “It’s alarming that young Swedish men are consuming so much salt, and something needs to be done about it…

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