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NICE Gives the Final ‘NO’ to Roche’s Tarcva

...-year survival rates by 41 percent. Tarceva was licensed and launched in Britain in 2005 at a cost of 1,631 pounds for one month's treatment. The medicine belongs to a new generation of "smart drugs", or targeted therapies, which attack only cancer cells and are tolerated much better than traditional che...

UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses

... 1,000 children are prescribed the drug. But it is licensed only for use in adults and is manufactured as a tablet, which many children are either unable or unwilling to swallow. The drug must therefore either be crushed and water added, or obtained from a "specials" manufacturer in liquid form. The sur...

Legal ‘high’ Drugs Declared Illegl

...that piperazine is a medicinal product and must be licensed and sold only in pharmacies, after safety regulations. There are warnings of prosecution issued to illegal vendors of the drugs, by the agency. Source-Medinda ANN...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

... Cervarix, in development. But it has not yet been licensed in Europe. Around 80% of sexually active women can expect to have an HPV infection at some point in their lives. And cervical cancer kills 274,000 women worldwide every year, including 1,120 in the UK. In an editorial published last year, ...

Vaccine Helps Reduce Frequent Ear Infections

...g frequent ear infections.” The PCV7 vaccine was licensed by the FDA in 2000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the vaccine be part of the routine vaccination schedule the same year. Children receive four doses of the vaccine: at ...

Experimental Flu Vaccine Appears Promising in Early Tests

...ccording to a preliminary study. "All currently licensed influenza vaccines in the United States are produced in embryonated hen's eggs. There are several well-recognized disadvantages to the use of eggs as the substrate [the base on which an organism lives or grows] for influenza vaccine. Eggs require spe...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

...f pandemic preparedness it would be best to have a licensed vaccine. Our review suggests this vaccine is safe and effective," Baylor said. David Williams, president of Sanofi vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur, said in a statement the approval was "a significant milestone in pandemic preparedness."Sanofi manufactu...

HIV/AIDS- Possible Cure From Within

... two amino acids in the sequence. As of now, the licensed manufacturing company VIRO Pharmaceuticals GmbH, whose Scientific Director is a co-author of the paper is conducting animal studies of VIRIP to determine if it is safe to test in humans. "So far, the results look promising," Kirchhoff was quoted, alt...

Peptide Found in Human Blood Inhibits 60 Strains of HIV, Study Says

...P can be manufactured in lab settings and has been licensed by the German biotechnology company Viro Pharmaceuticals, whose scientific director is a co-author of the study. According to the Chronicle, Viro is conducting animal studies to determine if VIRIP is safe to test among humans. Although the results ...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

... University owns a stake in the company, which has licensed several of Chang's research findings. Source-Eurekalert SM...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

... Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , is slated to be licensed for public use by 2009. The drug which trains the crosshairs on diseases caused by faulty genes, has been so far successful on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and cystic fibrosis. The drug is being tested on humans now after promising resu...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

...rs randomly selected 200 pharmacies from the 2,186 licensed pharmacies in New York City in 2006. Participating pharmacies included independent drugstores, chains, and outpatient hospital and clinic pharmacies. They found that while 88 percent of surveyed New York City pharmacists reported serving LEP customer...

New Test Helps Identify Hepatitis C Patients at High Risk of Developing Cirrhosis

...d expense of current therapy." Last June, Celera licensed Specialty Laboratories of Valencia, Calif., to perform the genetic test. The test currently costs about $500. Source-Eurekalert/B...

New Drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis Looks Promising.

...of a TNF inhibitor (such practice is not currently licensed in Europe). The minimum therapeutic aim is low disease activity, but remission should constitute the ultimate goal." said Josef S. Smolen, M.D., of the Medical University of Vienna, and colleagues....

Tougher Gun Show Controls in California Slash Sales of Weapons Linked to Crime

...d sales between private parties. Promoters must be licensed and gun transactions must be processed by a licensed retailer, a background check conducted and a record kept. California has also banned sales of .50 ...

Chinese Delegation Meets Health Minister Regarding Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Supply

...hose countries. In February 2006, JE vaccine was licensed in India and 13.5 million doses of JE vaccine were supplied by CNBG Chengdu Institute to India in the first half of 2006. About 10 million Indian children between 1 to 15 years were vaccinated with JE vaccine in order to be protected from Japanese E...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...searchers report on Sunday. Isradipine, already licensed for treatment for high blood pressure, rejuvenated ageing dopamine cells, the brain cells whose death causes Parkinson's, they say. The outcome among mice was so promising that the team now plan on conducting trials on human volunteers. "Our hope...

Research into Anti-epileptic Drugs Given to Children for Long Term Safety

...arch in the hope of increasing the availability of licensed medicines for children he says. Concerns over paediatric AEDs have risen in recent years after prescribing restrictions were issued on vigabatrin in the late 1990s following reports that one-third of users suffered from visual field defects, rangin...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...fective treatments, including drugs like the three licensed in the UK - Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. But not all types of ED respond well to medication - for example, ED caused by nerve damage following prostate cancer surgery. US researchers are hopeful that for these patients, and those who experience side-e...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

...to develop and obtain licensure for nine currently licensed vaccines and has been involved in the research and development of numerous other vaccines....

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