Pain drugs may raise risk of kidney failure
The use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs ("NSAID"), which include pain relievers like ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) may increase the risk of kidney failure, according to a report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“NSAIDs are associated not uncommonly with renal failure,” Dr. James M. Brophy from McGill University in Montreal told Reuters Health. “This rate of renal failure is approximately twice that observed for (heart attack). Clinicians should, therefore, be concerned not only about cardiac but also renal adverse effects and, therefore, restrict NSAID use only for those situations where the benefit is expected to outweigh the risks.”
Dopamine Used to Prompt Nerve Tissue to Grow
When Yadong Wang, a chemist by training, first ventured into nerve regeneration two years ago, he didn’t know that his peers would have considered him crazy.
His idea was simple: Because neural circuits use electrical signals often conducted by neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) to communicate between the brain and the rest of the body, he could build neurotransmitters into the material used to repair a broken circuit. The neurotransmitters could coax the neurons in the damaged nerves to regrow and reconnect with their target organ.
Social factors preclude condom use by teens
Social and cultural factors, not just unavailability or ignorance, influence why young people do not use condoms, researchers said on Friday.
Some sexually active under 25s associate condoms with a lack of trust, while others believe carrying them could imply sexual experience, which might be a plus for men but not necessarily for women.
Flavoured condom ad in bad taste, say Indian censors
Indian authorities want to stop the daytime airing of a television advertisement promoting flavoured condoms saying it is obscene and in bad taste, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The advert promotes DKT’s “XXX” strawberry, chocolate and banana flavoured condoms with the catch-phrase “What is your flavour of the night?”
But the Advertising Standards Council of India and the Censor Board have asked the government to bar the advert from being broadcast during the day, especially during the popular Champions Trophy international cricket tournament.
Ex-surgeon generals say US needs sexual literacy
U.S. efforts to promote abstinence as a cornerstone of sexual education have not lowered levels of sexually transmitted diseases, two former U.S. surgeon generals said on Thursday.
Drs. Joycelyn Elders and David Satcher told a news conference in San Francisco that a broad effort is needed to promote the “sexual literacy” of Americans to counter unacceptable levels of sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies, especially among teens and young adults.
