New global subsidy for malaria medicines must ensure quality of care
A new subsidy designed to increase access to life-saving antiretrovirals must remain focused on quality patient care if it is to succeed, argues Tido von Schoen-Angerer and colleagues in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine . The subsidy, called the Affordable Medicines Facilitymalaria...Brazil proves developing countries can use generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Brazil's nearly two-decade effort to treat people living with HIV and AIDS shows that developing countries can successfully combat the epidemic. Inexpensive generic medicines are a large part of the solution, say researchers from Brown University and the Harvar...Goal of good quality medicines advanced by new USP agreement with 9 ASEAN countries
Rockville, Md., June 24, 2009 Furthering its mission to improve the quality of medicines worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention has signed a cooperative agreement with nine countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In a drive to strengthen capacities a...New Report Shows Record Number of Medicines in Development to Treat Leading Causes of Cancer
DENVER, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Responding to President Obama's call for "a cure for cancer in our time," the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) delivered a new report today on medicines in the research pipeline for cancer. The report shows that America's pharm...Report on 300 New Medicines in Development for Heart Disease and Stroke Released in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are testing a record number of potential medicines to treat two of the country's top killers. According to the latest report by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (P...More Than 300 New Medicines Being Developed for Mental Illnesses
NEW ORLEANS, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There are a record 301 new medicines being developed for mental illnesses, according to a new report released here today during a briefing that focused on the devastating effects that mental illnesses have on patients, their families, and society...European Medicines Agency Adopts Positive Opinion for Ranolazine for Treatment of Chronic Angina
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CV Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVTX ) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of ranolazine in the European...Report on 750 New Medicines in Development for Cancer Released in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE, La., April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) delivered a new report today on medicines in the research pipeline. The report found America's pharmaceutical research companies are testing a record 750 new medicines to help...GT-CAPTURE for Nikon microscopes with camera port
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Eight previously unknown genes that affect blood pressure were recently identified in a comprehensive international study comprising 34,433 Europeans. The findings of the study, in which Uppsala University researchers participated, are being presented today in the Web edition of Nature Genetics ....Research exposes the risk to infants from the chemicals used in liquid medicines
A team of medical scientists from the University of Leicester has published research which looks into the harmful substances in liquid medicines that premature babies are being exposed to. Research published today (Jan 20) ahead of print in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease ...Pregnant women with asthma can be more confident about some medicines
Budesonide sprays can be regarded as safe for pregnancy - other asthma drugs have not been as well studied though Women can usually keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant. Budesonide sprays are the best studied and can be regarded as safe. More trials of ot...Producing medicines in plant seeds
Using plants to produce useful proteins could be an inexpensive alternative to current medicine production methods. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University have succeeded in producing in plant seeds proteins that have a very strong resembl...Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry
It is time to protect patients from “vile and cynical exploitation?by the alternative medicines industry, argues a cancer expert in this week’s BMJ. It is estimated that up to 80% of all patients with cancer take a complementary treatment or follow a dietary programme to help treat their cancer, ...Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain
Parrots, long a favorite pet animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For more than a century, biochemists have known that parrots use an unusual set of pigments to produce their rainbow of plumage colors...Elsevier's PharmaPendium(TM) Adds European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Documents
NEW YORK, October 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Site Becomes the Only Source of Consolidated, Searchable Access to Both FDA and EMEA Drug Approval Documents PharmaPendium ( http://www.info.pharmapendium.com/ ), Elsevier's online resource for authoritative drug safety data, has significa...New Report on 633 Biotechnology Medicines Under Development Released in Michigan
DETROIT, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the nation combats an alarming rise in chronic diseases, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) today released a new report on the next generation of medicines in research pipelines that offer hope to millions of patients...Biopure Announces Date to Meet with UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biopure Corporation (Nasdaq: BPUR ) today announced that a meeting with the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is scheduled for May 29, 2008 in the UK. The purpose of the meeting is to clarify the iss...Patients Fail to Take Fake Medicines Risk Seriously
DUBLIN, October 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - International Call for Patient Group Task Force to Fight Growing Fake Medicines Trade Major international research, including the views of bodies that represent more than 121,000 patients across Europe, was unveiled today in Dublin, Ireland - one of the w...