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New Critical Path Report Highlights Research Needed to Foster Generic Drug Development

...mising drug, biologic or device along the critical path from discovery, or proof of concept, to a marketable product. Solving these challenges will require the expertise and input of many groups, including scientists from universities, patient groups, government, industry, associations and other private o...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

... response patterns suggesting that going down that path might be the next step. Herein lies the added value of brain imaging – potentially being able to foretell the likelihood of making disadvantageous decisions, added Chee. "Most of us know of people who have stayed up all night on a gambling table, t...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

... efforts in specialized practices. And while the path that vet medicine as an institution appears to be taking may leave many ranchers high and dry, there's more to the story. With increased concern about the emerging issues of bio-security and agro-terrorism, the fear is livestock-producing states may ...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

...nics is a tricky one. In some countries, the legal path is a clear one: old devices can be returned to the manufacturer free of charge or brought to community recycling centers. Yet this is still not a wonderful solution for the environment: even with the most modern of recycling technologies, a significa...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...nnedy. The measure did not include creation of a path for FDA approval of generic biotech medicines, but...onths. The measure did not include creation of a path for FDA approval of generic biotech medicines, but Kennedy expected that would be added later. The...

Height of Liberation – Lesbians, No Less in Producing Babies (read Daughters

A path breaking research published today seems to have taken women empowerment to great lengths. Now, women will be able to manufacture their own sperms. Lesbian couples// need not be childless anymore, the research promises. Researchers have applied for ...

Wine You can Wear

...trong and stretchy. But before fashionistas beat a path to door, a knotty problem needs to be sorted out. For the dress to stay on, Cass cautions it needs to be constantly damp. Let the fabric dry out and it's as easy to tear as tissue paper. Source-IANS/L...

Genetic Pathways to Curable and Incurable Forms of Pancreatic Cancer Identified

...sponsible for sending cells down the less-traveled path toward cystic pancreatic cancer versus the well-traveled route to the more fatal form of ductal pancreatic cancer. Sunil Hingorani, M.D., assistant member of the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences divisions, led a stu...

Near Victory Over Vivax Strain of Malaria

...earch (MSHR), in Darwin, are ecstatic, following a path breaking research in the treatment// of vivax strain of malaria. Finding effective treatment for malaria has been a challenge and this study is perhaps the first of its kind to combat drug resistant strains of vivax malaria found in the Asia pacif...

Light-activated Compound May Be of Help for Epileptics in Future

... they call the NBD-steroid, to trace the steroid's path in the nervous system. To their initial disappointment, the researchers found that adding the fluorescent tag to the steroid had disabled it. "Normally, the steroid keeps the cell quiet in the face of stimuli that would otherwise cause it to fire...

Partners of Alcoholics May Need to Seek help

...ut scepticism about someone's behaviour smooth the path toward dependence on alcohol and in serious cases extends the addiction,' said Christa Merfert-Diete of the German centre for addiction questions in Hamm. When there's no longer any doubt that there is a problem, relatives can't do much to help - b...

Triptolide: A Potential Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease

...us for Crews. According to him, a roadblock in the path to TCMs as a source for new medical treatments is lack of understanding the biology and chemistry of how they work. Triptolide is a potent, biologically active compound isolated from the medicinal ‘Thunder God Vine’ Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F. T...

Portugal’s Citizens Vote to Legalize Abortio

...ngly catholic’ nations have since gone the secular path by allowing abortions. The move against the ban was conceived around five years back when 49 persons were prosecuted for aiding and permitting abortion (including the 17 mothers who underwent the abortion). The case led to a nationwide move to l...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

...Gs) whose hopes for progressing on a better career path are dashed. Many will have to return to their country of origin with disappointment about the NHS. "IMGs, a majority of whom come from the Indian subcontinent, have been the backbone of the NHS for many decades. The new rule treated them despicabl...

New Microchip for Protein Sorting

...rted are forced to take two orthogonal paths. Each path is engineered with different sieving characters. When proteins of different sizes are injected into the sieve under applied electric fields, they will separate into different streams based on size," Han explained. At the bottom of the chip the separa...

Stroke Prevention Technique Improves Brain Function

...e. Nevertheless, the study throws light on a new path of treatment for improving brain function. AN...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

...king open the clots might be how Yersinia opened a path from the lungs into the blood. When scientists infected mice with Yersinia that lacked PLA, though, they found infection ebbing in the lungs but spreading to the spleen. The mice still died, but it took them several days longer to do so. They conc...

TB Intervention Program Improves Patient Outcomes

...the health care services. This, we believe, is the path toward making TB control more responsive and reflective of local health systems and social constraints and resources. Our results show that the intervention we tested, consisting of a coherent package of sustainable activities targeting altogether...

Understanding Autoimmune Disease

...art of autoimmune disease. "This may shorten the path to new therapies for autoimmune disease," says Whitehead Member and MIT professor of biology Richard Young, senior author on the paper that will appear January 21 online in Nature. "With this new list of genes, we can now look for possible therapies ...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...o connect individuals by treading the scientific path and by generating a better understanding of man as a species, and also of his biological and cultural evolution. As we dream of a global village and a world sans cross- country borders, it would indeed be apt to ponder on the futility of humans...

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