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Clinical scientists find new way to treat hypertension

A team of clinical scientists at the University of Bristol have found a new way to treat high blood pressure (hypertension).

16 Sep 2016

Short talk with knowledgeable nurse could help smokers quit cigarettes

A short talk with a knowledgeable nurse could be the difference between a smoker stopping for cigarettes or stopping for nicotine gum on her way home from the hospital.

16 Sep 2016

Pittcon offers 40+ new educational courses in 2017 Short Course Program

The Pittcon Short Course Committee is pleased to announce the 2017 Short Course program which runs from March 4 – 9. PIttcon will be held March 5-9, in Chicago, IL, in the West Hall of McCormick Place.

From Pittcon 15 Sep 2016

Alzheimer’s Research UK calls for urgent preparation plan for future access to dementia treatments

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, is calling for an urgent plan for managing how new medicines are brought to patients, in a report that highlights several obstacles it fears could delay delivery of the next wave of dementia treatments.

15 Sep 2016

Virgo Health’s egg innovation hub unveils two digital products, PRODIGI and TRIAL360

Virgo Health has marked the official launch of its healthcare innovation hub, egg, with its first two proprietary white-label products, PRODIGI and TRIAL360.

15 Sep 2016

Alexion initiates new global Uncommon Strength campaign to raise awareness of rare diseases

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the launch of Uncommon Strength, a global campaign to raise awareness of rare diseases through the celebration of the extraordinary resilience and inner strength of those impacted by these diseases.

15 Sep 2016

New JGU cyclotron to be employed for research into potential applications in medicine

A new particle accelerator is further enhancing the research landscape at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

14 Sep 2016

Chemists develop one-step solution to make precursors for synthesis of drugs

A one-step solution to make nitrogen-laden molecular precursors for the preparation of drugs and other bioactive molecules has been discovered by researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Brigham Young University.

13 Sep 2016

Survey: Many young adults lack trust in established health websites

Over half of young adults (18-24 year olds) in Europe take comfort in hearing about people’s health experiences that are similar to theirs while less than a quarter of the same age-group trust online health websites and even less (17%) believe they will receive quality and dependable information from online search engines such as Google.

13 Sep 2016

Psychotropic drugs cannot alleviate symptoms of mental disorders, say researchers

Drugs don't lead to sustainable alleviation of mental disorders, as the psychologists Prof Dr Jürgen Margraf and Prof Dr Silvia Schneider claim in a commentary published in "EMBO Molecular Medicine".

12 Sep 2016

Cone snail venom could hold key to efficient therapies for diabetes

New research has found that venom extracted from a species of marine cone snail could hold the key to developing 'ultra-fast-acting' insulins, leading to more efficient therapies for diabetes management.

12 Sep 2016

Using the immune system to fight cancer: an interview with Dr Charles Akle

We all produce as many as 100,000 different types of cancer cells every day, which are recognized and eliminated by our extraordinarily efficient immune system. However, if something goes wrong with the immune system, and it no longer gets rid of these cells, then that’s when cancerous cells grow and become a problem.

12 Sep 2016

New research could pave way for safe, effective treatment for muscular dystrophy

New research has shown that the corticosteroid deflazacort is a safe and effective treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The findings, which appear this month in the journal Neurology, could pave the way for first U.S.-approved treatment for the disease.

9 Sep 2016

Researchers reveal how traditional Chinese medicine helps treat various cancers

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have shown how a complex mix of plant compounds derived from ancient clinical practice in China - a Traditional Chinese Medicine - works to kill cancer cells.

8 Sep 2016

Fraunhofer researchers plan to use electron beams to remove germs from tissue transplants

Medical products, packaging and food can be safely and efficiently sterilized with electron beams.

7 Sep 2016

Researchers identify potential new way of treating hypertension

Researchers eyeing first new anti-hypertensive drug treatment strategy in more than 15 years.

6 Sep 2016

Researchers use unique computational approach to identify promising drug leads for heart diseases

Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample, in millisecond time intervals, proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing, and weaving, a research team from UC San Diego and Monash University in Australia has identified promising drug leads that may selectively combat heart disease, from arrhythmias to cardiac failure.

6 Sep 2016

Scientists discover brain circuit crucial to sleep-wake cycle

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle.

5 Sep 2016

New discovery offers way to develop vaccine against highly infectious bacteria

Biochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this highly infectious bacteria--responsible for more than 500,000 deaths a year, including toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis or "flesh-eating disease."

5 Sep 2016

DNA-binding protein CHD1 could be potential biomarker for targeted prostate cancer treatment

The loss of CHD1, one of the most frequently mutated genes in prostate tumors, sensitizes human prostate cancer cells to different drugs, including PARP inhibitors.

5 Sep 2016

Pharmaceuticals News and Research

Clinical scientists find new way to treat hypertension

Short talk with knowledgeable nurse could help smokers quit cigarettes

Pittcon offers 40+ new educational courses in 2017 Short Course Program

Alzheimer’s Research UK calls for urgent preparation plan for future access to dementia treatments

Virgo Health’s egg innovation hub unveils two digital products, PRODIGI and TRIAL360

Alexion initiates new global Uncommon Strength campaign to raise awareness of rare diseases

New JGU cyclotron to be employed for research into potential applications in medicine

Chemists develop one-step solution to make precursors for synthesis of drugs

Survey: Many young adults lack trust in established health websites

Psychotropic drugs cannot alleviate symptoms of mental disorders, say researchers

Cone snail venom could hold key to efficient therapies for diabetes

Using the immune system to fight cancer: an interview with Dr Charles Akle

New research could pave way for safe, effective treatment for muscular dystrophy

Researchers reveal how traditional Chinese medicine helps treat various cancers

Fraunhofer researchers plan to use electron beams to remove germs from tissue transplants

Researchers identify potential new way of treating hypertension

Researchers use unique computational approach to identify promising drug leads for heart diseases

Scientists discover brain circuit crucial to sleep-wake cycle

New discovery offers way to develop vaccine against highly infectious bacteria

DNA-binding protein CHD1 could be potential biomarker for targeted prostate cancer treatment

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