Kasr Alainy Drug Information Center - KDIC

21/08/2022

Metformin new trial in treating COVID19 .

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...

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

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

Monkeypox

17/05/2022

Good news for asthma patients

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

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.

19/12/2021

تحذير بشأن حقن كابرون بطريقة خاطئة قد يؤدى لمضاعفات خطيرة

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals about the risk of inadvertent intrathecal administration of tranexamic acid injection. Intrathecal administration of tranexamic acid injection may result in serious life-threatening injuries, including seizures, cardiac arrh

12/12/2021

the new omicron variant of corona virus
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/omicron-variant.html

27/07/2021

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27/06/2021

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/monkeypox---united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-ex-nigeria