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Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...g tendency. said Christian Weyer. Pramlintide is marketed in the U.S. by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, under the brand name Symlin, to treat diabetes and control blood sugar. Amylin is one of several hormones secreted when eating and is known to work in partnership with insulin to regulate blood sugar. Pramlintid...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...ears." Of the 120 million cases of total spirits marketed in the subcontinent and valued at around $2 billion, white spirits like vodka account for 24 million cases in volume and 25 percent in value terms. "As a social drink that can be had any time or on any occasion, the white spirit has come to stay. B...

Arsenic Poison can Make Longer Life of Leukemia Patients

...rsenic-based medicine is made by Cephalon, Inc and marketed as Trisenox. Acute promyelocytic leukemia represents about 10 percent of cases of acute myeloid leukemia, and hits about 1,500 people a year in the United States. It is the form of leukemia most often diagnosed in young and middle-aged adults. Stan...

World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Secondhand Smoke

...work to educate youth about the way cigarettes are marketed to them and help smokers who want to quit." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the first study to provide a state-by-state analysis of smoking prevalence in U.S. homes. The study found that in 2003, smoking is prohibited i...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

... the severity of the withdrawal symptoms. The drug marketed by Pfizer is expected to do wonders in this area. There is substantial evidence to demand immediate measures to free the world from the tobacco menace and the sole effective step is by creating 100% smoke-free environments. This can be done, part...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...t) and 4 mg (coated fruit). The product will be marketed under store brand labels and is comparable to GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette(R) Fruit Chill(TM) coated gum, which is an aid to smoking cessation. "This first store brand approval of coated fruit nicotine gum extends our leading store brand position. T...

Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

...d slow the progression of symptoms." Creatine is marketed as a nutritional supplement, but is not an approved therapy for PD or any other condition. Studies have suggested that it can improve energy production by the mitochondria, the "powerhouse" of cellular metabolism. In persons without PD and in patient...

Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

...tration for use in adults and children. Lorazepam, marketed under the name Ativan, is only approved by the FDA to treat seizures in adult patients but is widely prescribed off label for children. Once a drug has been approved by the FDA for a particular use, physicians may use their best judgment to prescribe...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...xyContin's main ingredient oxycodone. The drug was marketed as a miracle pain reliever; less addictive and less subject to abuse than similar medications. However, it was later found that its contents could be highly addictive and even fatal. Purdue Pharma also made false representations about the difficul...

'Cocaine' Turns 'Censored' and Remains 'energy Drink'

...igrams of caffeine. The beverage was initially marketed to give a person a "high" coupled with a tingly eu... considered the drink illegal, saying it was being marketed as an alternative to an illegal street drug and making claims to treat or cure disease. For the R...

Researchers Discover How Antibiotic Inhibits Bacterial Growth

...ther diseases can be treated with linezolid. It is marketed in the United States as Zyvox. Mankin and his colleagues managed not only to crosslink the drug to its target in the living cell, but to precisely characterize the mode of binding of the drug to the ribosome. "It was a combined effort of excellen...

Study Shows Continued Success for New HPV Vaccine Against Virus

...omen, a series of three shots of a new HPV vaccine marketed by Merck under the name Gardasil could make the difference in preventing cervical cancer. The vaccine targets HPV types 16 and 18, which cause about 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. It also targets HPV types 6 and 11, which together cause ...

Exposure to Epilepsy Drug During Pregnancy Can Increase Risk of Mental Defects in Newborns

...epsy who took the seizure drug valporate, which is marketed by Abbott Laboratories under the brand name Depakote, while pregnant increased their risk of having an infant with mental defects, according to a study presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Boston, the New ...

Surface Logix Commences Phase 2a Clinical Trial of SLx-2101 in Raynaud's Disease

...s such as Raynaud's are currently not addressed by marketed PDE-5 inhibitors," commented Paul Sweetnam, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Surface Logix. "We used our novel chemistry platform to design SLx-2101 to have a profile that would deliver fast onset and long duration of therapeutic effects in difficu...

INVEGA(TM) Gets Marketing Authority from EU to Treat Schizophrenia

...A (paliperidone prolonged release tablets) will be marketed in Europe by Janssen-Cilag. In the U.S., this product is marketed by Janssen, L.P. as INVEGA (paliperidone) Extended-Release Tablets. This approval represents another...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...A (paliperidone prolonged release tablets) will be marketed in Europe by Janssen-Cilag. In the U.S., this product is marketed by Janssen, L.P. as INVEGA (paliperidone) Extended-Release Tablets. This approval represents another...

Tech Heads Go Gaga Waiting for Apple's IPhone

...S cities aiming to be the first to own an iPhone, marketed as the coolest gadget on the planet, when they go on sale Friday. The breakthrough device, which puts a phone, web browser and music player in the palm of the hand, goes on sale at 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Friday. Late Thursday some 60 fans armed with u...

Boffins Identify Gene That Helps Regulates Body Weight

...nuts and red grapes used to make wine. It has been marketed as a drug that mimics the effects of moderate exercise without the physical act of exercising and also as a longevity drug, despite the lack of evidence that resveratrol is safe and effective in humans. Researchers treated mice with CD38 with 30 mi...

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

...V) viral load in patients, allowing the test to be marketed in the European Union. Abbott is marketing the test under its strategic alliance with Celera. The Abbott RealTime HBV test, developed for use on the Abbott m2000(TM) automated instrument system, is designed for the quantitation (precise mea...

Fishing for a Speedy Recovery After Chemotherapy or Marrow Transplant

...ars ago for patients with gastritis, but was never marketed as a drug. Currently, patients undergoing bone marrow transplant must wait for marrow from a matched donor to replenish their stem cells and reproduce the full array of blood cell types, including all the cells of the immune system. When theres no ...

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