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Yale University guidelines for Physicians and Pharmaceutical industry

...or personal use, money other than funding from the pharmaceutical industry as this would make the investigators repo...ised by the fund or personal relationship with the pharmaceutical industry without compromising the ethical relationship with the industry....

Children Being Given "Adult" Medications, Report Says

... on their physiological make-up. From this year on pharmaceutical companies will be given incentives to conduct trials on children or will be forced to do so, "It is worrying that so many of the medicinal products used by our children have not been properly tested to ensure the appropriateness of their use," Lady T...

ARIXTRA drug for venous thromboembolism

...is high. The drug ARIXTRA is manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and is found to inhibit the factor Xa protein which is present in the coagulation cascade pathway and the drug is found to effectively control venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism in patients who underwent bone surgery ...

Zactima Receives Fast Track Designation By The FDA

...drug and regulation of the submission process. The pharmaceutical company is currently involved in Phase II clinical trials of the drug, directed against metastatic or locally advanced medullary thyroid cancer. The compound is believed to play a major role in the inhibition of the growth and spread of the thyroid...

Inhaled Insulin Could Rock The Drug Market Soon

...nths. The drug is a combined effort of three major pharmaceutical companies Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer and Nektar Therapeutics. The new formulation could eventually save the trouble of daily insulin injections for millions of diabetics worldwide. However, it cannot be viewed as a replacement as it may not be suitable...

Drug Makers Banned From Providing Gifts To Doctors

...tickets to sporting events, meals and vacations by pharmaceutical companies as a part of the promotional campaign. I...ined the effect of such an association between the pharmaceutical companies and physicians. Such acts are believed to diminish the integrity of the medical profession...

Ethics -Beacon for Medical Research

...reckoner for regular advice, to doctors working in pharmaceutical research, and is tailored around the organization’... market and the advent of the Internet means that pharmaceutical companies now have a vehicle for publicizing their own results to a mass audience, so there is no ex...

Cocoa Treats: Chocolates, as a Health Investment? Chew on this!

...d pressure, and diabetes. While Big names in the pharmaceutical industry are displaying interest in such findings,...lative stage has fuelled little enthusiasm amongst pharmaceutical companies to stake big amounts on the technology, according to the experts who have got together for...

India Can Become Major HIV Drugs Producer

... the source. The laws in India also do not prevent pharmaceutical firms from developing cheaper mass-scale fixed dos... and skilled human resources, both in medicine and pharmaceutical sectors, lend India the potential to produce both original branded drugs and generic drugs for any c...

Nutrigenomics here comes a team to better your future!

...m agriculture, food processing, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries with academic centres would accelerate technology development and dissemination of nutrigenomics information to the public." Potential benefits include developing new diagnostic tests for adverse responses to food, identifying specific p...

Sale Of Bird Flu Vaccine to US Planned: Australian Firm

...was soon joined by GlaxoSmithKline, a London based pharmaceutical company. Approximately 86 million doses of the drug were distributed last year. It is anticipated that at least 120 million doses of the vaccine would be required to manage the bird flu crisis this year....

NIH To Launch Two Major Gene and Disease Projects Soon

....S. dollars that the NIH hopes to share with major pharmaceutical companies that express interest in a partnership. The NIH has volunteered to set apart a sum of 68 million dollars to support the project that would take nearly 3 years to complete. Data from previous and ongoing studies would be used up for the pr...

Breast Cancer Funding To Be Extended By Another $30 Million: Pharmac

...supplying the anti-cancer drug in New Zealand. The pharmaceutical companies are closely working together to extend the available funding. A spokesman for Roche announced that the assessment process is being fast-tracked....

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

... needs 12 to 14 hours to destroy the pathogen. The pharmaceutical company FASgen, Inc., is working towards marketing the novel drug for commercial use. Overcoming multiple drug resistance in tuberculosis represents a significant challenge in the successful treatment of tuberculosis. It is associated with a fatali...

Indian Government: No Reason For Worry About Bird Flu

...imates. "Multinational vaccine manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, eager to sell their anti-flu drugs in India, are trying to project it as a case of bird flu," alleged National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) in a public notice. "The government and the industry should strongly resist such attempts." ...

Men Might Get Their Share of Cervical Cancer Vaccine As Well

...ccine. With such healthy competition among several pharmaceutical companies, we might perhaps soon put an end to the misery and suffering associated with at least one form of cancer....

Molecular Computer Developed To perform Calculations From Within Human Body

...he enzyme-powered computers could have significant pharmaceutical and biomedical applications and could, in the future, be implanted into humans. The researchers used two enzymes, glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP), to trigger two interconnected chemical reactions, the online edition of ...

Regulators Object Drug Produced from Genetically Engineered Farm Animals

... a budding industry that sought to enable low cost pharmaceutical options from farm animals GTC Biotherapeutics, proponents of this drug, have decided to appeal the decision, expressing their opinion that the verdict came about only on the basis of a problem in the clinical trial, and certainly not from the fact...

Annual Budget 2006: Health And Education Sector Receive A Boost

...nt 150% to 200% to widen the scope in the drug and pharmaceutical industry, ban on price control imposition and dividend distribution tax on this competitive industry, reduction of the excise duty from 16% to 8% were amongst the other topics discussed. The Government had promised increased spending on healthcare ...

New Antibiotics, Need Of The Hour: IDSA

The pharmaceutical companies have been urged to produce more antibiot... approved by the FDA over the past 20 years. Major pharmaceutical companies have diverted their attention to other medical problems, leading to a large lacuna in this...

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