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A new drug for cancer

...ould enter full clinical trials towards the end of next year....

Dementia - a global problem

...d clinicians in 26 countries in dementia care. The next stage is to learn more about risk factors for dementia around the world. After all, lifestyle, environment and genetics could have a big impact on dementia but we know little about these factors in places other than America and Europe....

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

...al cells, and then letting go and moving on to the next cell. The composition of carbohydrates on the cells affects the balance between hanging on to neighbouring cells and letting go.// Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that an enzyme that affects cell surface carbohydrates is more hig...

Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug

... demand and will supply 200 million tablets in the next three months. In fact, Bayer holds the U.S. patents on the most common forms of Ciprofloxacin and these expire on December 9, 2003. // Ranbaxy Laboratories produces both the bulk and formulation forms of ciprofloxacin and according to a company sp...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

... the form of a lump. They believe that, within the next few years, introduction of the new technique may make it possible to prevent breast cancer by improved screening of high-risk groups of women. Further developments currently underway may allow the collection of cells from abnormal areas using the e...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

...they will agree to make the vaccine and deliver it next year so it can be stockpiled. Smallpox is highly infectious, and can be fatal. When Europeans brought it to the New World, it spread like wildfire through some aboriginal populations, killing up to 90 percent of the Aztecs and several Northeastern ...

Generic drug costs remain shackled

...rimary care are likely to remain unchanged for the next year as the european government considers how best...r of important products would be coming off patent next year. Department of Health figures show that last year 52 per cent of all dispensed prescriptions we...

Detection of Cancer

...valuated in a clinical trial in Edinburgh over the next 10 months. It is based on scientific work by the John Baskin's School of Medical Research at the Engalnd National University. Professor Rodrigues Pat, leader of the research team, said the blood test is based on a specific molecule which appears to ...

Deep Sleep Doesn't Increase Memory

...who go to bed early to be ready for a big test the next day might be missing the mark, according to a study to be released Friday by a San Fernando Valley researcher that finds a good night's sleep does not increase memory. // REM sleep is a deep sleep during which an individual's eyes dart rapidly un...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...r and vaccine is expected to be plentiful by early next month, health officials recommend waiting to get a flu shot....

New Way To Treat Lupus

... better, more targeted treatments for lupus in the next few years. The new study suggests how this misguided immune system attack unfolds. Drugs that suppress the immune system are already part of lupus treatment, but these treatments are nonspecific in their targeting of immune function. And the drugs ...

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

.../ After this time, they swopped treatments for the next six weeks. Seventy three per cent of the bupropion patients reported their pain was improved or even much improved while 90 per cent of those taking the placebo found their pain the same, or worse. What's especially interesting is that the patients...

Drooping eyelids more common in men

...ens horizontally with age. The researchers say the next step is to study whether men suffer more frequently from lower eyelid disorders. The Dutch study also found that forehead wrinkles drag up the position of the eyebrows, the effect of which was more noticeable in men as eyebrows are around 2.5 mm high...

Cure for Hepatitis B

...s expected to be put on the Indian market by early next year, after which it will move to pharmaceutical counters around the world....

Miraculous Salads

... to decrease the incidence of osteoporosis." The next stage for the researchers is to identify which compounds in the onions has the positive effect, and to see if it will work in humans."We hope we have opened up a new field and that this will be a possibility to prevent osteoporosis provided it works ...

Coffee enhances memory

...n as in the morning. According to researchers, the next step is to repeat these experiments with brain scanning, to find out what effect caffeine really has on brain function and blood flow....

Cure for blindness

...least limited clinical trials in humans within the next three to four years....

Hobbies prevent dementia

... and then recorded who developed dementia over the next seven years. Those with a high degree of leisure activity were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia. There was an additional eight per cent risk reduction for each leisure activity reported. Intellectual activity - reading, learning a languag...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to challenge patents on drug

... happened to Dr Reddy’s in a very long time. The next generic drug which Dr Reddy’s hopes to launch in the US is Ciprofloxacin, on which Bayer AG has a patent till December 2003. Other generic drugs in Dr Reddy’s pipeline are Olanzapine, on which Eli Lilly has a patent, and Ondansetron, on which Glaxo S...

Infection linked with heart attack

...in the heart, neck and legs. On follow up over the next three years or so, there was a link between the number of infections and the likelihood of heart attack death. Those who had up to three infections had a 2 percent chance of dying, those with four to five had a 8 per cent chance, and in those with si...

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