Yes, penicillin allergies are real. Common symptoms include diarrhea and nausea and in rare cases, anaphylactic shock. You might have had an abnormal reaction to a dose of penicillin when you were younger. You may be wary about taking any further penicillin-based shots. But chances are, your immune system has already outgrown it, or you […]
The health care market today is suffering a great loss because of the patient’s addiction to the opioids. Opioids are compounds which have psychological impact similar to that of the opium. Once habituated, it can be very difficult to get rid of it. According to study, one out four patients who receive opioids from the […]
The historical approach to clinical drug development, and one that served drug companies well for the past thirty years, was to initiate testing in humans at clinical research units, typically located in the UK and the US and to proceed further to Phase II testing and beyond to patients with clinical evidence of the disease […]
Edward Jenner’s work in developing the world’s first smallpox vaccine in the 1790s demonstrated that it was possible to protect the general population from major threats to public health, and vaccine development aimed at combating the major concerns of the day has continued ever since. There have been many successes, and vaccines are now available […]