Organ on a Chip? Scientists Test Drugs on Tiny, Artificial Lung
Organ on a chip? Scientists test drugs on tiny, artificial lung
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. researchers have begun testing drugs using a microchip lined with living cells that replicates many of the features of a human lung, a technology that may one day help improve drug testing and reduce researchers' dependence on …
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Second probable case of meningitis reported in Chicago
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CHICAGO (WLS) – A Chicago resident is undergoing tests and treatment after being diagnosed with the second probable case of fungal meningitis associated with the use of a recalled epidural steroid drug. Similar to the first case reported in October …
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Sanofi draws fire over cost of MS drug Lemtrada
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Although Campath remains available free of charge to leukemia patients, Sanofi's rare disease unit Genzyme pulled it off the market in September to prevent its unauthorized use as an MS drug. Analysts said the move would allow the company to adjust the …
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Drug Addiction (1951) Part 1 of 2 – Marty, a “good boy,” experiments with marijuana and experiences “profound mental and emotional disturbances.” As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to “H,” and Marty’s decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and reformed. The scene where Marty and some of his stoned friends drink out of broken Pepsi bottles is memorable. As in all drug films, the marijuana sequences are the most entertaining. “Thoughtless curiosity can lead to a lifetime of pain and torment!” The street pushers in this film wear turtlenecks. Drug Addiction’s stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today. It belongs to that little-known “second wave” of anti-drug films, the postwar scare stories about middle-class kids overcome by junkiedom. What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties, and that the official response to the threat expressed a general, not specifically targeted paranoia. Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. Sponsor: Juvenile Protection Association of Chicago (The) and The Wieboldt Foundation