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‘Uber’ of Pharmacy: Disrupting the Market, or Patient Care? – MedPage Today

Capsule, a digital pharmacy armed with a fleet of couriers that delivers prescriptions directly to patients’ doors, has been described as the Uber of pharmacy, but some patients have raised concerns about delays and missing medications. The app-based pharmacy delivers same-day prescriptions in four of New York’s five boroughs (Staten Island excluded). The company describes… Read More »

Medical News Today: Sugar alters brain chemistry after only 12 days

New research in pigs finds that sugar intake alters the reward-processing circuitry of the brain in a similar way to addictive drugs. Whenever we learn something new or experience something pleasurable, our brain’s reward system becomes activated. With the help of natural brain chemicals, several brain areas communicate with each other to help us learn… Read More »

Medical News Today: Common foods alter gut bacteria by influencing viruses

A group of researchers has brought the idea of food as a medicine one step closer. They have identified certain common foodstuffs that alter our microbiome. In science today, food and gut bacteria are two topics that are guaranteed to fuel interest and debate. Both, of course, are interrelated, and a new study focuses on… Read More »