Strategy

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

AEterna Laboratories Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutic treatments in oncology and endocrinology recently acquired the new German based biopharmaceutical company, Zentaris AG. Following this acquisition// the new entity has in the pipeline six clinical stage products and two preclinical stage products, in oncology and one product already approved and...

Novel Strategy To Combat Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), characterized by progressive memory loss, decline in language skills and other cognitive impairments, has been a major threat to ageing population.// A recent paper in the October issue of FEBS Letters, reviews the different strategies in drug discovery. Hong-Yu Zhang, the author of the study, muses that the success of the present one-drug-one-target strategy i...

"Defensive Pessimism" Before Exam Results Not a Good Strategy

A new study by Margaret Marshall of Seattle Pacific University and Jonathon Brown of the University of Washington has found that the strategy// of expecting the worst results after an examination does not pay off in the long run and individuals who adopt such defensive pessimism are not better off than their normal counterparts. Reporting in the latest issue of the journal Cognition and...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

A new global strategy devised by the World Health Organization (WHO) would be adopted to effectively manage tuberculosis, an infectious disease that claims the lives of nearly 1.7 million people, worldwide //. The $56 billion global plan would be launched in January and targets reduction of prevalence of TB and the associated death rate by as much as 50% by the end of 2015. If this we...

HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients May Benefit With a Combo Drug Strategy

According to researchers, Breast Cancer Patients with HER-2 Positive tumor who do not respond well to Herceptin alone could benefit// with a combination of drug Herceptin and one or more P13K-inhibiting agents. The research team at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is due to conduct anther trial, after having successfully tested it on mice. The second stag...

West Nile Virus Can Be Tackled By New Strategy

Researchers have now identified a new strategy to effectively combat the West Nile virus, based on the fact that it is spread through a complex interaction// of nesting birds, mosquitoes and weather patterns. This kind of an interaction is believed to pave way for viral amplification with mosquito populations. Researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Florida have...

Australia Set To Implement A national Strategy Tackle Cannabis Abuse

The Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy is holding its annual conference in Perth. The top policy-making body on drugs Australia discussed yesterday //about the creation of three national strategies to tackle alcohol abuse, and substance abuse, including cannabis and petrol sniffing. The council comprises the federal, state and territory health ministers, and justice and police minis...

Bird flu no threat to McDonald's chicken: Advertisement strategy

In a bid to save its plummeting sales of chicken products in McDonalds, they have planned an exclusive advertisement campaign. //The campaign would ensure that the customers get the message that chicken here is safe. This has been planned by McDonald’s Corp., of Oakbrook, Ill. This strategy is a risk and pressure tactic which would ensure that is a epidemic and bird flu sca...

Clement Urged to Plot a National Pharmaceutical Strategy

The meeting of provincial health ministers to approve a progress report on a national pharmaceutical strategy have stated the need for financial// help of the federal government to cover the burdensome costs of some drugs. The meeting in Fredericton was planned to be conducted without Federal Health Minister Tony Clement. The federal Conservatives, reluctant to give any more than wha...

New Preventive Strategy to Fight Childhood Obesity

Scientists from the University of Cincinnati have come up with a new preventive strategy to fight childhood obesity.// This issue has become an important cause of concern for both the parent and the society. In the spring season the researchers recruited many parents and children for a program in Meade County, Ky to fight childhood obesity. The program extended for a period of 12-weeks....

Rae unveils Health-care Strategy

According to the federal Liberal leadership hopeful Bob Rae, Canada needed a national catastrophic drug program, which would prevent patients from having to choose between// their health and their bank balances. As part of his effort to succeed Paul Martin as leader of the federal Liberal party, Rae unveiled a six-point health-care campaign platform, the center-piece of which makes the...

A Promising New Vaccination Strategy for Late-Stage Melanoma

A therapeutic cancer vaccine being developed by an international team of cancer immunologists working within the Cancer Research Institute/Ludwig Institute for Cancer// Research Cancer Vaccine Collaborative (CVC) successfully induced a comprehensive, tumor-specific immune response in patients with late-stage metastatic disease, with results indicating that the vaccine had a favorable impact on di...

Effective Strategy Against Bird flu-Spainish Flu Vaccine Raises Hopes

Reports by government researchers say the a new vaccine effective against the 1918 deadly strain which caused the calamitous Spanish flu has been developed//. This is likely to lead to formulation of a remedy for any form of avian flu which may may the jump into humans and turn just as deadly,feel the scientists. The Spanish flu,thought to have been triggered off by unhygienic condit...

‘Action On National Strategy’ Demanded by Autism Associatin

Families of children with autism and related advocacy groups are questioning the Health Minister of Canada, Tony Clement for not providing a strategy for laying out// treatment resources equally across all of Canada's provinces. Clement, in response has released a series of small steps intended for helping researchers studying the abnormality. While Speaking in a Media Conference, Sam Y...

A New Strategy to Control Breast Cancer

A recent study finds that, TACE inhibitors currently developed for treating rheumatoid arthritis can also be employed to control proliferation of tumor cells. TACE is// strongly present in a form of breast cancer, which responds poorly to current therapies. TACE (tumor necrosis factor-alpha-converting enzyme) acts like a “molecular scissors” that releases a pair of ligands, called Amp...

New Strategy for the Treatment of CML

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers have identified an approach to enhance the activity of a new //anti-cancer agent that has already shown impressive efficacy in the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, is a cancer of the bone marrow caused by a specific genetic abnormality and is one of the more common forms of...

Drug Strategy Makes Cancer Genes Get Lost in Translation

A new strategy for fighting cancer aims to make its genes get lost in translation, according to a report published by Cell Press.// According to the researchers, such a therapy would essentially take advantage of a weakness of the disease: that the majority of growth- and proliferation-related proteins, which cancer depends upon, are encoded by "weak" messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Transcri...

Strategy to Reduce Blood Pressure in Low-income African American Men

New York – A five year comprehensive study on low-income black men suffering hypertension has revealed that a blend of medication and education// is the best bet to reduce hypertension. There were 309 African American men participating in the study. At the start of the study, 50% of the men were arbitrarily assigned an intensive program combining free medication, health education and s...

UAE Analyses HIV Policies to Plan National Strategy

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is analysing its HIV/AIDS policies to develop a five-year national strategy concerning the killer disease, Gulf News// reported Thursday. Officials from governmental agencies as well as international organisations, including the Red Crescent Authority, UNAIDS and UNDP, discussed the HIV/AIDS situation in the country at a workshop. The worksho...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

People at risk of developing acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) should be actively screened and government health authorities notified of any new cases , according to new guidelines issued by the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Both caused by group A streptococcal bacteria, ARF and RHD are diseas...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed a strategy that will be tested as the first treatment for people with hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare, degenerative muscle disease. In an unexpected finding, the research indicates that the approach also might benefit patients with certain kidney disorders....

'wake Up and Breathe' Strategy Allows Patients to Come Off Ventilator Sooner

A new study of intensive care unit patients who are breathing with the help of a mechanical ventilator has found that a two-step sedation and ventilator weaning protocolcalled a wake up and breathe strategyhelps patients come off the ventilator faster so that they can be discharged from the ICU and hospital more quickly. In the first step of the protocol, the patients sedation is t...

New Strategy Identified for Preventing Acute and Chronic Brain Disease

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have discovered that reducing levels of the protein tau can prevent seizures and neurological deficits related to Alzheimer's disease. The findings, reported today in the journal Science, demonstrate that when tau is removed from mice genetically engineered to simulate Alzheimer's disease, their memory function is retained and...

WHO to Implement New Strategy on Diseases of Poverty

The World Health Organization (WHO) based Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) has adopted a new strategy for strengthening and expanding research to prevent and control 'infectious diseases of poverty.' The strategy builds on the programmes 30-year record of developing new drugs, delivery strategies and enhancing research capacity in countries whe...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

Problem drinkers who took a craving-curbing drug whenever they felt the desire to imbibe reported fewer heavy drinking days each month than drinkers who took a look-alike placebo pill, but both groups reported marked reductions in heavy drinking days. Those findings come from a study of 403 heavy drinkers in Finland, who took either a placebo or the drug nalmefene on an as needed...