Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets

Egyptians may have been using herb-spiked drink for healing 5,000 years ago MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- The old adage, "take a glass of wine for thy stomach's sake," may have been heeded more than 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, archaeologists report. Sophisticated analys...

BioRelix and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Expand and Renew Research Agreement to Capitalize on Riboswitches

BioRelix, pioneers in the discovery and development of Riboswitch based therapeutic agents, and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry have jointly announced an expansion and renewal of their exclusive worldwide collaboration and agreement to discover and develop new therapeutics. ...

European Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) Issues Positive Opinion for Once-Daily PREZISTA(R) (Darunavir) as Part of Combination Therapy for Treatment-Naive Adults With HIV-1

CORK, Ireland, November 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion recommending approval for once-daily dosing of 800 mg PREZISTA(R) (darunavir) with low-dose ritonavir as part of combination therapy in treatment-naive adults (those who have ...

Dr. Richard M. Soll Joined WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) as VP of Medicinal Chemistry

SHANGHAI, China, July 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, announced today that Dr. Richard M. Soll has joined WuXi PharmaTec...

MS drug development agreement based on WEHI's medicinal chemistry

Research conducted at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) has contributed significantly to a major licensing agreement signed between Australian biotechnology company, Bionomics, (ASX:BNO) and Germany-based pharmaceutical company, Merck Serono. Under the Development and Licensing Agreem...

An Alternative to Medicinal Marijuana

Nerve agents stimulated cannabinoid receptors in mice, offering pain relief without side effects SUNDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists think they may have found a way to harness marijuana's medicinal powers without unleashing the plant's memory-robbing properties. But a n...

Oriental Medicinal Herb Garden Dedication

The Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin in conjunction with the American Botanical Council will have a dedication for the Oriental medicinal herb garden for botanical studies. AUSTIN, Texas, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The High Falls Gardens Fund, under the auspices of the ...

Indian medicinal plant Acanthus ilicifolius may combat liver cancer

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world with a poor prognosis. About three quarters of the cases of liver cancer are found in Southeast Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, and Japan. The frequency of liver cancer in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa is gre...

ATIR Classified as "Cell Based" Medicinal Product by the EMEA

A Classification for Innovative New Treatments AMSTERDAM, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Kiadis Pharma announced today that its lead product ATIR has received approval for regulatory classification as a "cell based" medicinal product by the Innovation Task Force (ITF), a division of ...

Vaporisers Make Marijuana Safe for Medicinal Use Compared to Smoking

Scientists at San Francisco based the University of California have demonstrated that vaporising cannabis leaves can release the drugs active ingredient just as effectively as burning them, while avoiding the harmful toxins inhaled through smoking it. The results of the pilot study are sig...

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IDM Pharma Provides Update on Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE) Regulatory Status Following September Meeting of European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDM Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDMI ) today announced that it met with representatives of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and Secretariat of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) on September 25th, following the CHMP's Sep...

IDM Pharma Provides Update on Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE) Regulatory Status Following June Meeting of European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)

- Company continues to anticipate CHMP opinion in the third quarter; L-MTP-PE on track for final European Commission decision in the fourth quarter IRVINE, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDM Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDMI ) today announced that the CH...

IDM Pharma Announces Non-Binding Opinion of the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) that Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE) Provides a Possible Clinical Benefit in Survival

CHMP grants Company extension to address remaining questions on Marketing Authorization Application IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDM Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDMI ) today announced that the Company recently presented to the Committee for Medicinal Produc...

Allos Therapeutics' PDX Granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Commission of the European Communities, with a favorable opinion of the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), has granted orphan drug designatio...

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation Announce Innovative Diabetes Drug Discovery and Development Partnership

...euroscience, and metabolic as well as infectious disease. These technologies cut across the life sciences, and include genomics and proteomics tools, medicinal chemistry, cell-based ultra high throughput screening of genes or compounds, structural genomics, and forward/reverse mammalian genetics. The m...

Access Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ProLindac Clinical Development Program

... and clinical development team is meeting with Access' partner, Aosaikang medicinal Group (ASK) and several key oncology opinion leaders to finalize plans fo...Access has previously announced that it has licensed ProLindac to Aosaikang medicinal Group ("ASK") for the Greater China Region and to JCOM, Ltd for South Korea...

NeurogesX Announces Preliminary Results of FDA-Requested Qutenza(TM) Study

...za is currently approved in the European Union for the treatment of neuropathic pain in non-diabetic adults, either alone or in combination with other medicinal products for pain. NeurogesX submitted a new drug application (NDA) for PHN to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which was accepted for fil...

Cognition Therapeutics Closes Series A Financing to Advance Drug Candidates for Alzheimer's Disease

...ged its scientific expertise with these difficult targets to pioneer the use of proprietary assays that emphasize functional responses and proprietary medicinal chemistry that ensures novel, high quality small-molecule drug candidates for the treatment of these diseases. Cognition has developed a numb...

Analysis of Edoxaban Phase II Data Provides Insight Into Reduced Bleeding Events Seen in Once-Daily Dosing

...Edoxaban tosylate is also known as DU-176b. (3) Schulman S., et al. Definition of major bleeding in clinical investigations of antihemostatic medicinal products in non-surgical patients. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2005;3: 692-694. ...

SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) Receives Positive Opinion From CHMP for Once-Monthly Subcutaneous Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

...., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP ) announced today that the Committee for medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) ...

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Insure

Features:... Simple, patient-friendly sampling with no fecal handling No dietary or medicinal restrictions Enhanced specificity for more productive colonoscopies Up to 66% more patient compliance than other fecal occult blood tests 86% of pa...
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Allopathic medicine

...bility of the term "allopathy." Many people use the term neutrally, simply as a name for orthodox medicine when necessary to distinguish it from other medicinal paradigms. Others have used the term allopathy in a deprecatory manner. Medical dictionaries and general usage dictionaries also give varying acco...

Mumijo

... 1 Origins 2 Composition 3 medicinal use and properties 4 External link ...red the substance. Similar substances are used for medicinal purposes throughout Tibet. A lot of scientific r...us traces of vitamins and aminoacids . medicinal use and properties Mumijo is not toxic, at leas...

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Salve

...el in Salve online with best price guarantee on Booking.com. We offer a large selection of quality hotels in Salve . salve n. An analgesic or medicinal ointment. Something that soothes or heals; a balm. ... For other uses, see Salve (disambiguation) ... Hotels.com offers great rates on top Salv...

Nail fungus

...s that have been used by doctors and hospitals for decades, to kill your nail fungus ... Toenail fungus and cures, how to avoid, natural and medicinal cures. 100% Guaranteed. ... nail itself provides a protective covering that allows the fungus to ... Fungus Nails: symptoms, cause, treatmen...

Marijuana

...arijuana determines how strong its effects will be. ... An extensive collection of images and information on historical, spiritual, cultural, and medicinal use, safety, research, effects, experiences, laws, chemistry, ... There has been a dramatic increase in the use of marijuana since 1992. ... In ...

Malaise

...ort or uneasiness, an "out of sorts" feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. Malaise is often defined in medicinal research as a "general feeling of being unwell". malaise ( ) n. A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illnes...

Foxglove

...tionary and encyclopedia. ... fox·glove (fksglv) n. ... common foxglove , Digitalis purpurea, fairy ... Description of foxglove , its habitat, medicinal uses, and other useful tips. ... The physician found that foxglove was capable of treating the swelling or edema, ... ... and text copyright...

Douche

...ce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. douche n. A stream of water, often containing medicinal or cleansing agents, that is applied to a body part or cavity for hygienic or therapeutic douche irrigation with a jet of water or medicated...

Cannabis

...a (now referred to as Cannabis sativa subsp. ... medicinal use of cannabis is legal in a limited number of ...sed to ... issues and the effects of cannabis . 6 medicinal use. 7 Spiritual ... Facts re medical marijuana ( Cannabis ) as medicine, laws for medicinal marijuana, patient resources, recipes. ... Cannab...

Antibiotic

...T BACTERIA ... instance, the antibiotic tetracycline binds to ... Brief and Straightforward Guide: What are Antibiotics ? ... Antibiotics are medicinal products that have an anti-bacterial effect - they ... Antibiotic summary with 52 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, research inf...

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International public-private partnership offers new paradigm for medicinal chemistry

The Wellcome Trust has announced a 4.1 million investment in a new initiative to generate small molecule inhibitors "chemical probes" for 25 proteins involved in epigenetic signalling, and to release these probes into the public domain with no restriction on use. Early stage information sharing...

Researchers use chemical from medicinal plants to fight HIV

Like other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter with cell division. As a result, the cell changes in many ways, and its disease fighting ability is compromised. But a new UCLA...

Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species

Genetic research has revealed that commercially available medicinal leeches used around the world in biomedical research and postoperative care have been misclassified for centuries. Until now, the leeches were assumed to be the species Hirudo medicinalis, but new research reveals they are actually...

Short stressful events may improve working memory

...neuropathway was responsible for the improved memory, as they proposed, researchers injected one group of rats before the stressful forced-swim with a medicinal compound that blocks the pathway, and injected another group with saline. Results showed that the saline group, in which the corticosterone neuropathw...

SRI announces selection by the National Cancer Institute as a Chemical Biology Consortium center

...l evaluation. SRI's Center for Cancer Research, comprised of biologists and medicinal chemists with expertise in fundamental and applied cancer research, focuses...ter. She will collaborate with Mary Tanga, Ph.D., an SRI senior director of medicinal chemistry, who will lead the Chemical Diversity Center, and Keith Laderoute...

UCLA researchers discover new molecular pathway for targeting cancer, disease

...macological molecules to inhibit tumor formation. Matsui will be a collaborator in this follow-up research. In addition, the team has started a medicinal chemistry program to design and test small molecules that activate the LXR pathway while avoiding the adverse effects that may be caused when LXR is a...

Healing power of aloe vera proves beneficial for teeth and gums, too

...at products have received the organization's seal of quality. Although there are more than 300 species of the plant, only a few have been used for medicinal purposes. "Thankfully, consumers with sensitive teeth or gums have a number of choices when it comes to their oral health, and aloe vera is one of the...

American Chemical Society weekly presspac -- June 10, 2009

...al Monolayers" DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE: http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/mp800153u CONTACT: Colin Pouton, Ph.D. medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Monash University (Parkville Campus) Melbourne, Australia Phone: 61-3-99039...

Small molecules mimic natural gene regulators

... both the function and the mechanism of their natural counterparts," said Mapp, who has a joint appointment in the College of Pharmacy's Department of medicinal Chemistry. Next the researchers want to understand in more detail exactly how the small molecules bind to that site. "Then we'll use that information ...

Decreasing deer damage

..., contributing billions of dollars to the U.S. economy annually. Examples of nontimber forest products (NTFP) include edibles such as fruits and nuts, medicinal and herbal products, and specialty floral and decorative products. Standouts in the NTFP industry include U.S.-grown herbs used to satisfy increasing ...

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BioRelix and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Expand and Renew Research Agreement to Capitalize on Riboswitches

NEW HAVEN, Conn. and TORONTO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- BioRelix, pioneers in the discovery and development of Riboswitch based therapeutic agents, and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry have jointly announced an expansion and renewal of their exclusive worldwide collaboration and agreement to discover a...

Acesys and Provid Announce Alliance for Medicinal Chemistry Services

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. and NANJING, China, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Acesys Pharmatech and Provid Pharmaceuticals Inc. announce a strategic alliance, combining the drug discovery expertise and project management capabilities of Provid in the US with the medicinal chemistry resources and favorable...

Telik Announces Publication of Diabetes Research in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Telik, Inc. (Nasdaq: TELK ), today announced the publication of research in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters describing a novel class of small molecule compounds that could potentially lead to a new treatment for diabetes. These uniq...

MS Drug Development Agreement Based on WEHI's Medicinal Chemistry

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Research conducted at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) has contributed significantly to a major licensing agreement signed between Australian biotechnology company, Bionomics, (ASX:BNO) and Germany-based pharmaceutical company, Merck Seron...

Neptune Technologies expands into medicinal markets in Asia Pacific

Commercial pharmaceutical partner, Inovail, successfully launches OmegaGen(R) in Australia and New Zealand LAVAL, QC, March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. ("Neptune") (NASDAQ.NEPT - TSX.V.NTB) and its commercial pharmaceutical partner In...

New 300mg Loading Dose Tablet for Plavix(R) Receives Positive Opinion From the European Committee for Medicinal Products (CHMP)

PARIS and PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - A New Step Forward May Help Increase Appropriate Early Use of Plavix(R) by Simplifying Administration in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE...

BIKAM and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Sign Collaborative Research Agreement

BOSTON/Massachusetts, TORONTO/Canada, March 3 /PRNewswire/ - BIKAM, pioneers in the discovery and development of potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of degenerative eye diseases and ocular disorders and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry, have jointly announced an exclusive worldwide collab...

Senexis and O2H (Oxygen Healthcare) Announce Medicinal Chemistry Collaboration

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Executives from Senexis and O2H, both located in Cambridge, UK, announced an agreement under which O2H will provide synthetic and computational chemistry services to the drug discovery programmes at Senexis on an FTE basis. "We believe our coll...

Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Partners Achieves Another Milestone in Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd.

TORONTO, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ - Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Partners, the Medicinal Chemistry arm of Dalton Pharma Services, announces that it has achieved another targeted milestone in its Medicinal Chemistry agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Partne...

BioRelix and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry Sign Research Agreement to Capitalize on RiboSwitch Technology

NEW HAVEN, CT, and TORONTO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ - BioRelix, pioneers in the discovery and development of RiboSwitch based therapeutic agents and Dalton Medicinal Chemistry, have jointly announced a research collaboration to discover new therapeutics. Dalton Medicinal Chemistry will utilize t...

Medicinal in Biological Definition

Biodiversity

...od : crops, livestock, forestry, and fish; (see also local food ); biodiversity has a role in medication . Wild plant species have been used for medicinal purposes since before the beginning of recorded history. For example, quinine comes from cinchona tree (used to treat malaria ), digitalis from...

Botany

...monstrates the ongoing relevance of studying plants to understand fundamental biological processes. Utilise medicine and materials Many of our medicinal and recreational drugs , like cannabis , caffeine and nicotine come directly from the plant kingdom. Aspirin , which originally came from the ...

Liver

...ogen), II (prothrombin), V , VII , IX , and XI , as well as protein C , protein S and antithrombin . The liver neutralizes toxins , most medicinal products, and hemoglobin . The liver converts ammonia to urea . The liver stores of a multitude of substances, including glucose in the form...

Monoclonal antibody

...le cell). Monoclonal antibodies can also be used to purify a substance with techniques called immunoprecipitation and affinity chromatography . In medicinal treatments, the small variation (if any) in recognizing the antigen helps to reduce side effects. However, there are drawbacks to using monoclonal a...

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Urine

...signs, diagnosis and ... Normally, urine is sterile. ... the tube that carries urine from the bladder to ... Information from HPS Online on the medicinal use of one's own urine . Contrary to the medical opinion that urine contains dead tissue and as such, can ... One's urine , Null explained du...

Urinary bladder

...is, is the one related to bladder cancer. ... Urinary Bladder Cancer Chapter 11 ... There is a curiosity in Western science regarding Chinese medicinal diagnosis of, and treatment for, urinary bladder stones, a very painful condition affecting many ... ...

Fungi

...hogens, and include rusts, smuts, and many ... Specializing the distribution of cultures, tools and technologies for the cultivation of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. Examines their presence in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics, and morphology. An introduction to fungi and so...

Biologics

... Biologics include a wide range of medicinal products such as vaccines, blood and blood components, allergenics, somati..., animal, or microorganism. Biologic Biologics include a wide range of medicinal products such as vaccines , blood and blood components, allergenics, [ 1 ] ...