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Canadian drug safety network provides reassuring evidence regarding risk of heart failure of anti-diabetes medications

Incretin-based drugs, a type of medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, do not increase the risk of being hospitalized for heart failure relative to commonly used combinations of oral anti-diabetic drugs, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Classified as: drugs, jewish general hospital, diabetes, Lady Davis Institute (LDI), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), health and lifestyle, New England Journal of Medicine, Heart failure, incretin, Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies, Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network
Published on: 24 Mar 2016

Now, an international team of researchers led by McMaster University in collaboration with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has found that soap and water is actually less effective than just using saline water.

The findings, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to significant cost savings, particularly in developing countries where open fractures are particularly common.

Classified as: water, World Health Organization, McMaster, McGill University Health Centre, health and lifestyle, salin, salin water, soap, wound, cleaning wounds, New England Journal of Medicine, Mohit Bhandari, Michael G. DeGroote, Edward Harvey
Published on: 15 Dec 2015
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