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Pharmaceutical compounds found in nation's fresh water

... and gravel deposits in Missoula, Montana. Many pharmaceutical and pharmaceutically-active compounds (e.g. caffeine) persist through the human body and are resistant to conventional waste water treatment practices. They are often detected in aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers and ground water, which can ...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

...t," Haydel says. "I ordered bacterial strains that pharmaceutical companies use to test their antimicrobials." Haydel and Williams tested both of the French clays that Brunet de Courssou had been importing. One completely inhibited pathogenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ofte...

Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors

...d Gynecologists about their relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. The members were part of a collaborati...thical to accept free samples of a new drug from a pharmaceutical company rep. Similarly, just over half thought it was ethical to accept a lucrative consultancy w...

Are genomic technologies the answer to world hunger?

...also working on 'molecular farming' ?production of pharmaceutical products in plants, with the potential to revolutionise vaccination procedures. However, these technologies are only likely to impact on world hunger if there is effective and efficient exchange of knowledge and experience through partnerships. A ke...

Vaccine-producing 'plant-factories'

...proteins have significant antigenic power of great pharmaceutical interest. Conventional biotechnological methods enable the cells to accumulate very limited quantities of glycosylate recombinant proteins. The chloroplast is a cell organ with great capacity for storing proteins. However, it is incapable of produ...

Male contraception: One door opens, another closes

... a big disappointment." Unbeknownst to Amory, pharmaceutical giant Schering was simultaneously testing miglustat in rabbits and another strain of mice, and found the same results--contraception in the first strain of mice, but no effect in the other strain or other species. The original studies used C57 Bla...

'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines

...e venture capital support, and collaborations with pharmaceutical companies, to enable this novel technology to be rigorously tested in a wide range of animals and humans, and using a wide range of influenza strains....

A valuable fly for research into disease

...rs of this conference have invited two of the main pharmaceutical companies currently making considerable investments into research using Drosophila: En Vivo Pharmaceuticals, in the US, and VASTox in Oxford, UK. Drug addiction, cancer and heart disease "What can a fly tell us about drug addiction?" is the title...

Need to pull an all-nighter?

...c-oxide-induced slumber. Rosenberg sees the most pharmaceutical promise in developing drugs that prolong wakefulness by curbing production of nitric oxide or scavenging the gas once it's produced. The opposite ?a sleeping pill made from nitric oxide donors -- would be much harder, he says, since these compounds w...

Distinguishing friend from foe in the battle against cancer

...by the survival factor NF-kB. Rapamycin, like the pharmaceutical superstar Gleevec, which revolutionized the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, is a so-called signal transduction inhibitor or STI, a small molecule that stifles inappropriate growth signals sent by mutant proteins in cancer cells. STIs may l...

Novel mechanism of action of new drug for MS identified

...s such as Vioxx, that have been withdrawn from the pharmaceutical market. FTY720, a drug developed by Novartis, has shown considerable therapeutic effects in a recent small, placebo-controlled clinical trial involving patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. The study was published in the September 2006 issue ...

New mechanism underlying pain found

... and the preclinical validation of new targets for pharmaceutical therapies shown in this research, together present an opportunity for the development of new ways to treat the severe pain associated with such common conditions or diseases as sciatica, diabetic neuropathy and shingles. This research was presented...

A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice

...y formation, the holy grail of CNS research in the pharmaceutical industry is the identification of a safe, orally active drug that activates memory-associated pathways and enhances memory," says lead author Pamela Maher, Ph.D., a researcher in the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute. Maher hi...

Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

... million prescriptions for Lipitor alone. Although pharmaceutical companies report that side effects of statin drugs are rare, there are some patients who experience serious consequences of taking these drugs. "We received many calls from patients in the community experiencing side effects, and wanting answers ab...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...w. Fifteen authors from eight universities and one pharmaceutical company collaborated on the PNAS article, including the Stanford Human Genome Center. The trauma glue grant was launched in 2001 with an original $30 million award over five years, and has just been renewed with an additional $30 million in funding...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

...ication for this technology is expected to involve pharmaceutical companies, which could use the biological chips to test potential drugs in the lab more quickly and accurately. In later generations, the chip ultimately could command implanted devices ?for example, a wireless defibrillator/pacemaker or an insulin p...

Fruit fly aggression studies have relevance to humans, animals

...it in flies, the more we can develop logical human pharmaceutical interventions." ...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...ctored by chemicals borrowed from the conventional pharmaceutical industry. The reason that these products are accessible to patients is that they are not subject to the testing of pharmaceuticals because they are classified as food supplements. So why do patients take alternative medicines" Why is science disre...

Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs

...l testing. "This should be particularly useful for pharmaceutical companies, so that academic scientists and companies alike can compare the signatures of diseases and compounds to signatures in the Connectivity Map database, and, from that, generate hypotheses," Golub said. The strategy allows scientists to capt...

Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease

...ute for Age Research and UCSF adjunct professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. The team also includes key co-investigators at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The team will work to establish the best method...

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