Kasr Alainy Drug Information Center - KDIC

21/08/2022

Metformin new trial in treating COVID19 .
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-trial-metformin-effective-odds-outcomes.html

In work published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers—led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health—have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or death due ...

16/08/2022

Corona virus updates...
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

COVID-19 vaccines protect against COVID-19. Get safety info and more.

16/06/2022

Important note about depakine (not used in pregnancy)
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-reveals-epilepsy-migraine-drug-birth.html

14/06/2022

Promising new drug for parkinson disease.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-clinical-trial-parkinson-drug-safe.html

12/06/2022

New discovered use for thalidomide
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-thalidomide-effective-treatment-abnormal-blood.html

The same property of thalidomide that caused birth defects when it was given to pregnant women—the inhibition of blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis)—has led to an interest in thalidomide's therapeutic utility in other fields. At the annual conference of the European Society for Human Gene...

24/05/2022

monkeypox
https://www.who.int/health-topics/monkeypox =tab_1

Monkeypox

17/05/2022

Good news for asthma patients
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-drug-combination-asthma.html

A global study of asthma patients by Rutgers and an international team of researchers found a combination of two drugs dramatically reduces the chances of suffering an asthma attack.

10/04/2022

New findings on drug helps in reducing loss of taste and smell associated with corona infection
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-loss-covid-.html

Loss of smell and taste—a hallmark symptom of COVID-19—was not on the minds of a group of Yale School of Medicine researchers when they embarked on a study in the spring of 2020.