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Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe

...ce its duration and also signal the development of drug resistance. In addition, the higher the ...ally acquired during adulthood through intravenous drug use or high-risk sexual activity....

Phase II Data Show Efficacy and Tolerability of Tapentadol in Chronic Pain Treatment

...cology and a pioneer in intelligent, user-friendly drug delivery technologies. The company discovers, develops, produces and markets high therapeutic value pharmaceuticals that contribute to patients' ability to control their own lives. Grunenthal is an independent, family-owned German company operating w...

Research Studies on Molecular Switches of Gene

...to manipulate CREBs co-factors to treat disease. A drug that blocked the specific co-factors CREB needs in the liver to trigger activity of genes that make glucose could reduce blood levels of this sugar in people with diabetes, Brindle said. But at the same time, CREB could continue its other jobs withou...

Modified Drug Therapy for Alzheimers Disease

...ue university researchers has found a new modified drug for Alzheimers disease.The drug has begun the first phase of clinical trials. Millions of people suffer from this devastating di...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...n a six-day long rally here to create awareness on drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. Adorning characteristic yellow colour T-shirts, participants are cycling down the st...

Polyethylene Glycol Offers Relief to Chronic Constipation

...ic constipation, even elderly patients can use the drug safely for up to six months Until recently, few data were available regarding the long term treatment of chronic constipation, says study author Dr. Jack DiPalma. Only two medications are currently approved by the FDA for treatment of this conditi...

Recall of the AIDS Drug Causes Panic in Zambia

...ave caused panic among the users who feel that the drug may not be safe due to contamination. There are m... Zambians on the antiretroviral therapy. The HIV drug has been recalled after a "human error" led to a higher than normal level of a chemical which can ca...

Now, It's Possible to Trace Marijuana to Its Roots

...its distribution. It could also help the state's drug enforcement officials track the trafficking patterns of marijuana by comparing where the marijuana was grown to where it is seized, Goetz said. "We need more data. We need more analyses of marijuana samples from known locations so we can create the...

Ex-IITian-designed Alzheimer's Drug's Human Clinical Trials Begin

...ical trials to test the efficacy of an Alzheimer's drug designed in-house. The drug is based on an inhibitor developed by a team of researchers at the university. The researchers say t...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

...8 patients successfully with Avastin, he says. The drug improved or stabilized visual acuity in all cases by dramatically reducing blood vessel leakage and resultant swelling of the macula, the major causes of irreversible vision loss in radiation retinopathy, he said. He also noted that, before these Ava...

Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report

...said. "It is also hard to be conclusive about the drug situation in some of the worlds biggest and fastes... to be contained. In the past few years, the world drug situation has stabilized. There is some ground for optimism that the run-away train of drug addictio...

New Transgenic Mushrooms Raise Hope for Mass Production of Human Drugs

...t require expensive infrastructure set up by major drug companies," he added....

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...most honest assessments yet of sexual behavior and drug use because they used a new method to do the surve... just looked at statistics for sexual behavior and drug use alone." There were no surprises, Porter said, but what researchers already know is troubling. ...

University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

...RT. CRT has been proven effective as an adjunct to drug therapies in patients with advanced heart failure and dyssynchrony indirectly assessed by changes in the electrocardiogram or ECG, specifically a wide QRS duration of more than 120 msec. In contrast, an ultrasound of the heart or echocardiogram provi...

Drugs More Important Than Kids for Katona, Says Her Candy Man

Former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katonas drug dealer has revealed secrets about the singer that ...s Molly, 4, and Lilly Sue, 3. According to the drug supplier, Leighton Ogden, even the pop singers kids are not important to her when it comes to drugs....

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...oblems, such as novel strains of avian flu and HIV drug resistances. Yet billions in aid could be wasted b...on maize crops in Kenya, urbanisation in India and drug regulation in China and Latin America. Professor Melissa Leach, Director of the STEPS Centre expla...

Cost-effective Treatments for Breast Cancer

...y three years on average with the addition of this drug due to reduced disease recurrence. Over a lifetime, the cost-effectiveness ratio was estimated to be US26,417/QALY dollars and over 20 years was estimated at US 34,201 dollars. The two economic studies agree with previous cost-effectiveness studies...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...cteria have developed resistance to the penicillin drug family. The antibiotic-resistant infections are more common in North America, because of overuse of antibiotics. Some federal health officials said they had not seen the APICE study and could not comment on its methodology or its prevalence. But ...

New Research Centre at Sydney to Lead Cancer Fight

...le to bring back the British trial of a new cancer drug his team developed. Development of a drug known as glutathionarsenoxide (or GSAO) was completed in 2003 but Prof Hogg was unable to get fundin...

Adenoviruses Could Help Kick Drinking

...r more. Aldehyde dehydrogenase is blocked by the drug disulfiram, also known as Antabuse, which is sometimes used to help alcoholics quit the habit, said online edition of New Scientist. "But you have to take it (disulfiram) every day, so there is a big problem with compliance," says researcher Amali...

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