Adverse drug reactions a big killer

jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

More than 3% of all deaths seem to be caused by adverse reactions to medical drugs, according to new research.

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Handwriting can give us a sign about our heart?

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.abc.net.au)

Here we could get some interesting information from" Handwriting production might be affected by some disorders (eg Parkinson's disease) but this is not to say that handwriting style can be an indicator of disease, and specifically heart disease",
As far as I know there isn't any evidence to correlate heart disease with handwriting style, or to suggest that handwriting style can be used to accurately diagnose illness, but I think this may be a key way to predict heart disease without the need for invasive and expensive techniques, maybe it will be true in the future.

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Sodium valproate stimulates potassium and chloride urinary excretion in rats

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

NaVPA causes kaliuretic and chloriduretic effects with gender-related differences in rats. Further investigations are necessary to elucidate the mechanism of such pharmacological effects of NaVPA.

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New drug design for type 2 diabetes

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.sciencedaily.com)

In the laboratory of Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) Assistant Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyay is providing important information for researchers. The research should in time help researchers to identify potential targets for docking inhibitors that will slow down, but not fully eliminate, the body's overproduction of glucose.
The study investigates ways to control the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase -- a key enzyme involved in the metabolic pathway used by the human body to produce glucose

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