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IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...de at Cedars-Sinai by Pimentel. Cedars-Sinai holds patent rights to this discovery and has licensed rights to the invention to Salix. NLA...

New Biomedical Device to Monitor Hip Implant Healing

...er and commercialization, filed a provisional U.S. patent application for the work. Source-Newswise SRM...

Garlic compound may help treat cancer

... of compounds is new. The inventors have filed a patent for their invention. Once granted the patent will be in the name of Kerala's Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology where the work was carried out...

Using Heart Stents Tends to Form More Clots

...ces called stents.Stents are used to make arteries patent or open to allow an easy passage of// blood. It is inserted into cardiac arteries by surgeons.Stents may be medicated or non medicated that are coated with drugs are more liable to suffer from internal blood clotting. The risk is four to five times g...

Thailand’s Decision to Manufacture Generic AIDS Drug Wins Acclai

...en a boon to many sufferers. Merck & Co Inc, the patent holder of the drug has opposed the decision of the government to issue a five year license, allowing the manufacture and import of the drug, also termed, Stocrin. But this move has been seconded by AIDS activists and health experts. "This is both a ...

Gene Therapy May Be the Solution for Erectile Dysfunction

...ein. Einstein has granted licensing rights for the patent to a company called Ion Channel Innovations, which was founded by Dr. Melman, and under whose sponsorship the clinical trials are being conducted. The two study centers in the trials were Mount Sinai Medical Center and NYU Medical Center. Source-...

Tax Concession to Pharma Comapnies

...nufacturing Practices, Good Clinical Practices and patent laws. As per the current provisions of the Income Tax Act, if a company engaged in the business of bio-technology, drugs and pharmaceuticals incurs any expenditure on scientific research, excluding cost of any land or building on in-house R&D facil...

A New Rapid 3-D Cell-Growth Technique For Growing Heart Muscle

...e progress toward those goals. U-M is applying for patent protection on the development and is actively looking for a corporate partner to help bring the technology to market. The new paper actually compares two different ways of using fibrin gel as a basis for creating BEHM: layering on top of the gel, ...

Mushroom Extract Protects Poultry From Parasite Diseases

...le. Currently, this new method is the subject of a patent application. SRI...

Indian American Scientist at Work on Multi-targeted Drug

...cs, which holds exclusive commercial rights to the patent held by the University of Illinois at Chicago, to undertake further tests on cats and dogs before granting permission for human clinical trials. Chakrabarty, who holds five patents in the US, is keen that the proposed Indian research centre should ...

Haryana, Maryland Universities Tie Up to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

...ge's County, Patricia Hayers-Parker, said that the patent of the vaccine developed by the joint research would be held by both universities. She said that a Japanese company would be associated for mass production of the vaccine to save people from the deadly bird flu virus. Scientists from both unive...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

...are for a clinical trial. Although cromolyn is off patent and widely available, it has been used only as a topical agent (through an inhaler, nasal spray and eye drops), so the research team is studying how to deliver the drug internally. "Cromolyn seems to reduce survival mechanisms in pancreatic cancer ...

Does Aspirin Crystallize?

...in nature, but could have tangible implications in patent law, because each polymorph of a compound is viewed as a separate patentable substance. Source-Eurealert SRI...

NRI Doctor's R&D Model in India to Slash Cost of Drugs

... new medicine, which was no longer under a 20-year patent to a multinational drug company and could be made ... report added that Imperial College would hold the patent on the hepatitis C drug to prevent anybody attempting to block its development. The college employs ...

Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...ge pipeline non-approval combined with the looming patent expiry of the current market leading therapy. Antiplatelet therapies, particularly aspirin and aspirin in combination with other antiplatelet agents represent the “second big wave” of preventive therapies following a heart attack. In combination, t...

Hybrid Molecule Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct

... Office, they have filed an application for a U.S. patent covering this class of compounds. Source-Newswse SRM...

Heart Defect Is Linked to Some Cases of Migraine Headache

...rt defect in some people. The defect is called a patent foramen ovale or PFO. A remnant of fetal development, a PFO is a hole between the two upper chambers of the heart and is generally smaller than a pencil eraser. In about 25 percent of people, the hole stays partially open after birth, leaving a PFO, ...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...ransfer arm of the Weizmann Institute, now holds a patent for this method, and a new company based on this patent, called “Braintact Ltd.,” has been set up in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is currently operating within the framework of Meytav Technological Incubator. The US FDA has assured the compan...

Drop Patent Petition, Activists Ask Novartis

...against the Indian government that has not granted patent to its anti-cancer medicine. "India produces aff...oth here and in many other developing countries. A patent grant to Novartis on Gleevec will certainly make cancer medicine unaffordable for the poor," said Am...

To Patent or Not-A Question of Life

...ageable crisis. Novartis is backing its right to patent a modified version of its drug Glivec produced in India, used to treat leukemia. If it wins its case this will mean the cost of the drug shooting to almost ten times its present value and a move towards more stringent rules on drug patenting. This ...

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