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Nausea is the sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach and head with an urge to vomit. An attack of nausea is known as a qualm.

Alios, Vertex sign worldwide license agreement to develop new hepatitis C combination medicines

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and Alios BioPharma, Inc. today announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement that will add two distinct nucleotide analogues to Vertex's hepatitis C portfolio.

13 Jun 2011

Millennium reports results from two MLN9708 ongoing Phase I studies on multiple myeloma

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today reported results from two ongoing Phase I studies with MLN9708, the first oral proteasome inhibitor being studied in patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma.

13 Jun 2011

Seattle Genetics, Millennium ADCETRIS phase I trial data on Hodgkin lymphoma presented at EHA

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Seattle Genetics, Inc., announced today that data on ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) in relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma patients were featured in an oral presentation at the 16th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in London.

13 Jun 2011

Final data from Alexion's Soliris Phase 2 studies on aHUS presented at EHA 2011

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the presentation of final data from the two Phase 2 studies of Soliris as a treatment for patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.

13 Jun 2011

Amylin disappointed with U.S. District Court's ruling in BYETTA preliminary injunction

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today issued the following statement regarding the decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California to deny its motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin Eli Lilly and Company from engaging in anticompetitive activity and breaching its diabetes collaboration agreement with Amylin.

10 Jun 2011

Tips for pregnant women during summer

Hot, humid and pregnant. Many women would call that a recipe for misery. But UAB obstetrician Kim Hoover, M.D., says there are real medical conditions that pregnant women should guard against to stay safe and healthy as the temperature rises.

10 Jun 2011

Eli Lilly, Synthes collaborate to develop osteoinductive products

Synthes, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company today announced the signing of an exclusive worldwide collaboration agreement to address the needs of patients who are cared for by orthopedic surgeons, including those with osteoporosis and those with bone fractures.

10 Jun 2011

Abbott reports positive interim results from LCIG Phase III open-label study for advanced Parkinson's disease

Interim efficacy and safety results from a long-term, 54-week, Phase III open-label study of Abbott's investigational treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease showed that patients treated with levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG) for 12 weeks reported a decrease in "off" time and an increase in "on" time without troublesome dyskinesias.

9 Jun 2011

Merck announces changes to high-dose simvastatin prescribing information in the U.S.

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced changes to the prescribing information in the United States for the highest dose of simvastatin, 80 mg, and the use of simvastatin with certain other medicines.

9 Jun 2011

More women than men are unnecessarily referred for nuclear stress tests

New research from cardiologists at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals suggests a possible gender disparity in how patients are referred for nuclear stress tests, an imaging technique that measures blood flow to the heart muscle both at rest and during periods of stress, such as exercise.

9 Jun 2011

New palonosetron-aprepitant trial data on chemotherapy induced nausea, vomiting presented at EHA

New data presented at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2011 Annual Meeting in London show better control of nausea and vomiting with the combination palonosetron plus aprepitant when compared to granisetron in patients receiving multiday highly emetogenic conditioning chemotherapy regimens - Significantly higher the complete response during the acute, delayed and overall periods.

8 Jun 2011

Millennium reports results from two VELCADE based combination studies against multiple myeloma

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today reported results from two studies of VELCADE (bortezomib) for Injection based combinations in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM).

8 Jun 2011

MSU professor to lead acetazolamide clinical trial on idiopathic intracranial hypertension

A rare but increasingly more common disease striking overweight, younger women is the focus of a clinical trial at Michigan State University, where an osteopathic physician is testing the effectiveness of a certain drug against a potentially blindness-causing ailment.

8 Jun 2011

Geron's GRNOPC1 Phase 1 trial results on spinal cord injury presented at international conferences

Geron Corporation today announced two presentations on the company's ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of the human embryonic stem cell-based therapy, GRNOPC1, in patients with spinal cord injury.

7 Jun 2011

ABRAXANE and bevacizumab clinical studies on unresectable melanoma presented at ASCO 2011

Celgene International Sàrl today announced that results from two investigator initiated studies including ABRAXANE, and bevacizumab in unresectable melanoma were presented at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

7 Jun 2011

AMPYRA ER Tablets improve walking ability in patients with multiple sclerosis

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. today announced an analysis of pooled clinical trial results showed patients who were responders to AMPYRA (dalfampridine) Extended Release Tablets, 10 mg demonstrated clinically relevant improvements in walking ability as measured by patient self-report on the 12-Item Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (MSWS-12), regardless of either their baseline Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score or baseline walking speed.

7 Jun 2011

Dacogen Phase III study results on acute myeloid leukemia presented at ASCO 2011

Results from the DACO-016 trial of Dacogen (decitabine) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented today at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

7 Jun 2011

Initial positive results from ZIOPHARM's ZIN-CTI-001 Phase Ib study against advanced melanoma

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. announced today that Douglas J. Schwartzentruber, MD, FACS, of the Indiana University Health Goshen Center for Cancer Care, presented initial positive clinical results from the first-ever treatment demonstrating control over transgene encoding of a therapeutic anticancer protein in humans using a small molecule activator ligand.

7 Jun 2011

Celgene announces ABRAXANE plus gemcitabine, bevacizumab phase II trial data on breast cancer

Celgene International Sàrl today announced that results from an investigator-initiated phase II study of ABRAXANE, gemcitabine and bevacizumab as first-line treatment in metastatic breast cancer were presented at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

7 Jun 2011

Ovarian cancer screenings do not reduce risk of death

A University of Alabama at Birmingham study released today reports that ovarian cancer screenings do not reduce a woman's risk of death from the disease and the invasive medical procedures may create associated health problems.

7 Jun 2011

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Alios, Vertex sign worldwide license agreement to develop new hepatitis C combination medicines

Millennium reports results from two MLN9708 ongoing Phase I studies on multiple myeloma

Seattle Genetics, Millennium ADCETRIS phase I trial data on Hodgkin lymphoma presented at EHA

Final data from Alexion's Soliris Phase 2 studies on aHUS presented at EHA 2011

Amylin disappointed with U.S. District Court's ruling in BYETTA preliminary injunction

Tips for pregnant women during summer

Eli Lilly, Synthes collaborate to develop osteoinductive products

Abbott reports positive interim results from LCIG Phase III open-label study for advanced Parkinson's disease

Merck announces changes to high-dose simvastatin prescribing information in the U.S.

More women than men are unnecessarily referred for nuclear stress tests

New palonosetron-aprepitant trial data on chemotherapy induced nausea, vomiting presented at EHA

Millennium reports results from two VELCADE based combination studies against multiple myeloma

MSU professor to lead acetazolamide clinical trial on idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Geron's GRNOPC1 Phase 1 trial results on spinal cord injury presented at international conferences

ABRAXANE and bevacizumab clinical studies on unresectable melanoma presented at ASCO 2011

AMPYRA ER Tablets improve walking ability in patients with multiple sclerosis

Dacogen Phase III study results on acute myeloid leukemia presented at ASCO 2011

Initial positive results from ZIOPHARM's ZIN-CTI-001 Phase Ib study against advanced melanoma

Celgene announces ABRAXANE plus gemcitabine, bevacizumab phase II trial data on breast cancer

Ovarian cancer screenings do not reduce risk of death

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