Posted by admin in health, medical news New York, medicine on March 6th, 2009
| State Moves Toward Lighter Sentences for Potheads MSNBC - USA “This new drug policy will be founded on the premise that drug addiction is a public health crisis and that drug treatment works,” said Assembly Speaker … |
| Brain Tumor Drug May Help Spur Cancer’s Return U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA The research team, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, have identified cells in brain tumors called gliomas that have stem … |
| New York doctors testing heated chemo for rare cancer PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA By warming the cancer drug, mitomycin, to about 107 degrees, it becomes a heated anti-cancer weapon when pumped through a catheter directly into the abdomen … |
| Alex Rodriguez Has Torn Labrum; Surgery Not Certain, Agent Says Bloomberg - USA By Mason Levinson March 5 (Bloomberg) – New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball’s highest-paid player, has a torn labrum and a … |
Posted by admin in drug rehab news on March 5th, 2009
| Pfizer goes for growth in generics with Aurobindo deal Pharma Times - London,UK In addition, the companies will co-promote B&L’s anti-infective besifloxacin, if the treatment is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. … See all stories on this topic |
| Anti-Doping chiefs watching Chambers Chambers has been in contact with anti-doping officials at UK Sport, the high performance agency, as part of his rehabilitation and comeback. … See all stories on this topic |
| * NICE also “minded” to reject Pfizer’s Sutent for GIST guardian.co.uk - UK By Ben Hirschler LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline’s breast cancer drug Tyverb has been turned down again in a final assessment by Britain’s … See all stories on this topic |
| Avoid large quantities of cinnamon Seattle Times - United States Our biggest concerns involve drug interactions. Like grapefruit, bitter orange can boost blood levels of many medications and increase the risk of side … See all stories on this topic |
Posted by admin in China medical news on March 4th, 2009
FDA to Meet with Drug Companies about REMS for Certain Opioid Drugs
| 2009年2月9日 On February 6, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent letters to manufacturers of certain opioid drug products, indicating that these drugs will be required to have a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) to ensure … FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research… - http://www.fda.gov/cder/whatsnew.htm - 引用该结果的帖子 [ FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research...站内的其它相关信息 ] |
Drug violence tarnishes Mexico’s international image | csmonitor.com
| 2009年2月22日 The US State Department has issued a new travel advisory warning of ‘large firefights’ across the country. Christian Science Monitor | Articles on… - http://www.csmonitor.com/ - 引用该结果的帖子 [ Christian Science Monitor | Articles on...站内的其它相关信息 ] |
Breakthrough Flu Drug Stops Pandemic, Seasonal Flu
| 2009年2月22日 A new monoclonal antibody drug cocktail kills all types of flu bugs and could protect against pandemic or seasonal flu. Clinical tests may start by 2011. WebMD Health - http://www.webmd.com/ - 引用该结果的帖子 [ WebMD Health站内的其它相关信息 ] |
Drug War Tragedy in Mexico - by Alan Bock
| 2009年3月2日 作者 Alan Bock In 2005 more than 1300 people were killed in drug-gang-related violence. By 2007 the number had grown to 2673. Some estimates put the deaths at 4500 just through November of 2008. And many of the bodies discovered show signs of the … AntiWar.com - http://www.antiwar.com/ - 引用该结果的帖子 |
FDA Approves Orphan Drug ATryn to Treat Rare Clotting Disorder
| 2009年2月6日 Because hereditary AT deficiency occurs in a small population (approximately 1 in 5000 people in the United States), the FDA granted ATryn an orphan drug designation. The orphandrug designation system encourages the development of … Food and Drug Administration–Recalls - http://www.fda.gov/ - 引用该结果的帖子 [ Food and Drug Administration--Recalls站内的其它相关信息 ] |
The Volokh Conspiracy - Decentralizing Drug Policy:
| 2009年3月1日 作者 Jonathan Adler After the federal Drug Enforcement Agency raided a marijuana dispensary at South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 22, two days after Obama’s inauguration, and four others in the Los Angeles area on Feb. 2, White House spokesman Nick Schapiro … The Volokh Conspiracy - http://volokh.com/ - 引用该结果的帖子 |
Technology Review: Drug Erases Fearful Memories
| 2009年2月13日 But those who had been treated with the drug were less startled by sound accompanying the spider, suggesting that the emotional aspect of the memory had been dampened while the informational content was left intact. … Technology Review AudioDizer Podcast - Top Stories - http://www.technologyreview.com/ |
The Functional Language Gateway Drug
| 2009年2月15日 作者 Haacked It turns out that C# is the ultimate gateway drug for functional programming1. It has just enough functional elements to give you a taste for functional, but with enough friction at times (for example, the type inference is not as good … you’ve been HAACKED - http://haacked.com/ - 引用该结果的帖子 |
Science News / Breast Cancer Drug Gets Boost
| 2009年2月23日 作者 scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News) Natural protein could make the most aggressive breast cancers vulnerable tamoxifen, and may even prevent the cancer’s spread. Science News / News Items - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feed/type/news - 引用该结果的帖子 [ Science News / News Items站内的其它相关信息 ] |
Counterterrorism Blog: The Growing Taliban/Drug Connection
| 2009年2月20日 作者 Michael Braun The best estimates by our government are that the Taliban generates somewhere between $300 - $400 million dollars a year from their involvement in the Afghan drug trade. I happen to believe that number falls woefully short of the real … Counterterrorism Blog - http://counterterrorismblog.org/ - 引用该结果的帖子 |
Posted by admin in medical news New York, medicine on March 3rd, 2009
| Novexel’s NXL104/ceftazidime Combination Commences Second Phase II … PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA PARIS , March 3 /PRNewswire/ — Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to … See all stories on this topic |
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| French Core Laboratory IMT Commercializes Cardio Ultrasound Software DOTmed.com (press release) - New York,NY,USA by Kathy Mahdoubi, Editorial Coordinator For more than 10 years, IMT has taken part in large, prospective and cross-sectional drug studies, many focused on … See all stories on this topic |
Posted by admin in health, medical news Europe, medical news New York, medicine on March 3rd, 2009
Hormone patch no help for women with low libido: study |
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| Goldman reaffirms ‘Sell’ rating on Watson Forbes - NY,USA Also, he said the risk for lower sales and payments on the iron-deficiency treatment Ferrlecit remains. Watson’s partner on the drug is Paris-based … See all stories on this topic |
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Helping Hand |
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| Antiamericanism in Greece - An iron curtain between Greeks and … American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA Scientific advances in many areas of endeavor are phenomenal, such as in Medicine (victory against Malaria and Tuberculosis) with drug discoveries galore, … See all stories on this topic |
Posted by admin in health, medical news Europe, medical news New York, medicine on February 27th, 2009
Science Daily (press release) - USA
That is the conclusion of a multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial, the results of which were published February 26 in the journal The Lancet. …
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New York Times - United States
The 14-year-old company, based in Hawthorne, NY, already sells one drug, a treatment for spasticity, but it is not yet profitable. …
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Reuters - USA
The drugs contain the ingredient metoclopramide and are available in various forms including tablets, syrups and injections, the Food and Drug …
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KHBS/KHOG 40/29 - Fort Smith,AR,USA
Without additional funding, Gunn and the treatment center director said nonviolent drug offenders, like Mitchell, will not be able to get a second chance. …
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Bloomberg - USA
Saltz praised the trial’s lead scientist, Carmen Allegra, the division chief of hematology and oncology at the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center in …
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Science Daily (press release) - USA
XDR-TB is still rare in the United States ─ 83 cases were documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 1993 and 2007. …
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U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
“If proven in human subjects, the ability to simplify treatment to just two drugs that work against drug-susceptible [TB], multi-drug-resistant [TB] and …
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Baldness Med to Beat Cancer? Eight Drug Alter-Egos
ABC News - USA
The possible use of finasteride — a drug associated with hair loss treatment — to help prevent prostate cancer is just one example of how a well-known …
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| Older Men Urged to Consider a Drug to Prevent Prostate Cancer … By Health dBTechnoOlder Men Urged to Consider a Drug to Prevent Prostate CancerNew York TimesBy RONI CARYN RABIN For the first time, medical groups have issued guidelines that say healthy older men should consider taking a drug that may reduce … News Media Magazine - http://newsmediamagazine.com/ |
| McGill Global AIDS Coalition » Blog Archive » MSF halts efforts to … By Website coordinator Beijing/Brussels - After almost two years of trying to reach an agreement with China’s TB Control Program, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has given up on its efforts to start a project in Inner-Mongolia to assist people suffering from … Treatment is much more complex than treating drug-sensitive TB, takes longer, has much stronger side-effects for the patient, and is very expensive. The spread of MDR-TB is seen by public health experts as one of the most serious … McGill Global AIDS Coalition - http://treatthepeople.com/ |
Avigen reveals Positive Data for AV411 in Pain Relief and Drug …
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
… drug on enhancing the pain-killing effect of opioids while reducing the addiction properties of commonly used opioids such as morphine and oxycodone. …
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Posted by admin in medical news Los Angeles on February 25th, 2009
| 13TH ANNUAL POSITIVELY AWARE HIV DRUG GUIDE Out In America - Columbus,OH,USA … treatment advocate Morris Jackson, AIDS Project Los Angeles; and Paul Djuricich, Pharm.D., R.Ph, from BioScrip Pharmacy. New to this year’s HIV Drug … See all stories on this topic |
| ARCA biopharma Appoints Kathryn Falberg as Chief Financial Officer … Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA Ms. Falberg received an MBA and BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. “I look forward to helping build long-term shareholder value … See all stories on this topic |
| The Role of the Immune System in Alzheimer’s Disease Focus (subscription) - USA Correspondence: Address correspondence to Robert M. Cohen, Ph.D., MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Thalians, E135, 8730 Alden Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90048; … See all stories on this topic |
Posted by admin in medical news Europe on February 25th, 2009
| Competitive Receives FDA Authorization for Sales of Pain Therapy … RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA (RTTNews) - Competitive Technologies Inc. (CTT: News ) announced that the US Federal DrugAdministration has issued a 501(k) letter of authorization … See all stories on this topic |
| Basilea wants damages off J&J as superbug antibiotic is delayed Pharma Times - London,UK The CHMP actually issued a positive opinion on the drug in November but now says that it needs to inspect the drug trial sites of Janssen-Cilag, … See all stories on this topic |
| Penwest Begins Phase Ib Clinical Trial of A0001, Dosing Underway … MSNBC - USA … in the US and Europe. A0001 has received orphan drug designation from the FDA for the treatment of inherited mitochondrial respiratory chain diseases. … See all stories on this topic |
| Shire to acquire rights to UCB’s hyperactivity drug Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA Vyvanse, used for the treatment of ADHD in pediatric and adult patients, was launched by Shire in the US in July 2007 and is in Phase III trials in Europe. … See all stories on this topic |