Atlantic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Completion of Successful Pre-IND Meeting with FDA for Abuse Deterrent Narcotic

ATLANTA, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has completed a pre-investigational new drug (PIND) meeting with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for guidance on a mutually acceptable regulatory pathway for submissi...

TheraQuest's IND for Abuse Deterrent Strong Opioid (TQ-1015) Accepted by FDA

BLUE BELL, Pa., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- TheraQuest Biosciences, Inc. a development stage pain management company today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug ("IND") application for TQ-1015, its abuse deterrent extended release stro...

Akela Pharma initiates its first abuse deterrent opioid Phase I clinical trial

http://www.akelapharma.com Toronto Stock Exchange Symbol: AKL MONTREAL, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Akela Pharma Inc. (TSX: "AKL"), a drug development company focused on developing therapies for the inhalation and pain markets, today announced that it has started its first EDAC...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

While previous research has suggested that circumcision 'significantly' cuts HIV risk in men, a new study has found that it is much less important as a deterrent to the global AIDS pandemic than previously thought. Author John R. Talbott who conducted statistical empirical research across 7...

Living alone is a deterrent to good health

Many households in the United Kingdom have lone inhabitants, which means there is a prevailing trend of many people living in seclusion. This is surely// an unhealthy trend, say Danish researchers, whose study has revealed that living alone almost doubles the risk of heart disease. The livin...

Sunitinib Benefit Explored in Poor-Prognosis Kidney Cancer

...study, experts added that "the safety and efficacy of sunitinib in an older population are confirmed and evidence shows that age alone should not be a deterrent from attempting therapy." But "patients with brain metastases, non-clear-cell histology, and poor performance status benefit less from sunitinib, d...

Addiction scientists call for end to executions for drug offenders

...o abolish the death penalty, published online today in the August issue of the journal Addiction , argues that capital punishment is not an effective deterrent for drug-related offences, since it is usually poor and replaceable mules and "runners" who are likely to be caught and executed. The authors cite...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Answers Call For Safe Science-Based Weight Loss

...rmance enhancing ingredients that share its makeup, the caffeine and Green Tea Extracts included as well are literally 'an assault on stored fat and a deterrent on the fat you consume'. Store orders for Max De-Lite Activated Weight Loss formula at the more than 150 Max Muscle Sports Nutrition stores across...

New Urine Drug Test to Detect for 6 Major Drugs, Now Available at Drugstore.com -- 'DrugConfirm' Is a New Revolutionary Urine Drug Test

... taking preventive measures like drug testing can be a significant factor in preventing substance abuse.” “Parents are the number one deterrent to a teen's decision to use drugs”, continued Ilgaz. Studies have shown that the average age of first drug use is 13; more than one-third of tee...

Finances Trigger American Reluctance to Spend More on Healthier Foods

...Eighty-four percent of Americans recognize soybean oil as very or somewhat healthy. Soybean oil contains zero grams of trans fat, which can often be a deterrent for many consumers at the grocery store. In fact, 59 percent say they would be more likely to buy a product that they currently purchase if the food c...

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DNA Helps Reunite Children With Their Families

...oughout the world will develop national databases that will link to an international repository of these DNA profiles. Then DNA- PROKIDS will become a deterrent and prevent criminals from kidnapping and trafficking children, the most vulnerable of all victims. About the University of North Texas ...

Acura and King Receive FDA Complete Response Letter Regarding Acurox(R)

...Letter raises issues regarding the potential abuse deterrent benefits of Acurox(R). Acura and King are current...logy product candidates and other innovative abuse deterrent technologies. Acura and King jointly developed Acu... labeling for the proposed indication or for abuse deterrent features; and the benefits of Acurox(R) and the ab...

Alpharma Presents Positive Pharmacokinetic Study Results of Its Investigational Abuse-Deterrent, Extended-Release Opioid

..."There is a clear need for new medications that provide pain relief while deterring abuse and we believe our technology may offer a significant abuse- deterrent option for physicians treating patients suffering from moderate-to- severe chronic pain," says Joseph Stauffer, DO, Chief Medical Officer Clinical Res...

SIGA Passes First Hurdle with Lassa Fever Antiviral ST-193

... illness and death. Creating and deploying antiviral drugs targeting arenaviruses will enhance national and global security by acting as a significant deterrent and defense against the use of arenaviruses as bioterror weapons. Six separate arenaviruses are classified as Category A pathogens by the Centers for ...

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Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

... snakes head," said Rasmussen. Similar defence mechanisms have been discovered in lizards, and some land snakes have developed ingenious camouflage deterrent behaviour strategies, but this defence has never been associated with other lethally venomous predators such as sea snakes. Traditionally the onl...

Ethanol byproduct produces green results

... Rick A. Boydston, Harold P. Collins, and Steve Vaughn, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, undertook a research study on the use of DDGS as a weed deterrent on potted ornamentals. The study results, published in the February 2008 issue of HortScience, evaluated the use of DDGS as a soil amendment to supp...

BIO-key(R) Receives $335,000 Contract Award From Baltimore Police

...officers in the field. BIO-key solutions become a force multiplier by making their officers more effective and productive, while they remain a visible deterrent to crime. We expect to deliver this contract in the current quarter." About BIO-key BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey...

DFG welcomes decision on stem cell research by German parliament

... First and foremost, we are very glad that the threat of legal sanctions that has existed up to now has been lifted. This was a particularly serious deterrent for young researchers wanting to go abroad. All in all, the debate on the amendment of the Stem Cell Act is another good example of constructive di...

Can certain metals repel sharks from fishing gear?

... alloys to repel spiny dogfish conducted by NOAA researchers in Oregon. Results of the sandbar shark study were presented at a NOAA-sponsored shark deterrent workshop in Boston earlier this month. ...

BIO-key(R) Receives New Mobile Data Contract Award From Indiana Police Agency

...g officer safety," according to Shelbyville Police Department Sergeant Michael Turner. "We can now keep officers in the field where they are a visible deterrent to crime and can respond more quickly. This will also provide more time for dispatchers to more effectively respond to the needs of the public." "Wi...

BIO-key(R) Receives New Mobile Data Contract Award From Indiana Police Agency

...g officer safety," according to Shelbyville Police Department Sergeant Michael Turner. "We can now keep officers in the field where they are a visible deterrent to crime and can respond more quickly. This will also provide more time for dispatchers to more effectively respond to the needs of the public." "Wi...

E.coli a future source of energy?

...rogen. There also are other benefits. As might be expected, the cost of building an entirely new pipeline to transport hydrogen is a significant deterrent in the utilization of hydrogen-based fuel cell technology. In addition, there is also increased risk when transporting hydrogen. The solution, Wood...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

...journal PLoS ONE, male circumcision is found to be much less important as a deterrent to the global AIDS pandemic than previously thought. The author, John R. Ta...IDS organizations have begun to provide funding for male circumcisions as a deterrent to AIDS. While male circumcision may indeed reduce the risk of transmission...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

...nd hydrogen storage tanks. "The tremendous convenience provided by the existing infrastructure for delivering and storing today's fuels is a huge deterrent to introducing technologies that use only batteries or hydrogen alone," Agrawal said. "A major advantage of our process is that it would enable us to ...

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Isilon Hosts Industry Leaders Panel on the Future of Life Sciences and IT at Bio-IT World 2009

...T World . "The question is: what effect will this transformative period have on the future of life sciences and how will IT act as a catalyst - not a deterrent - for the next wave of breakthroughs in research and drug discovery?" Today, Complete Genomics , the Broad Institute, Cedars-Sinai Louis War...

Half of Surveyed Physicians Expect to Replace Between 6 Percent and 15 Percent of Their Sustiva Prescriptions with Isentress

...atient eligibility for CCR5 antagonist drug treatment. Physicians consider the prerequisite co-receptor tropism test for HIV patients to be a critical deterrent to prescribing CCR5 antagonist drugs. "It is highly likely that all subsequent members of the CCR5 antagonist drug class will necessitate a tropism ...

BIO-key(R) Awarded Contract to Deploy Incident Reporting System for Littleton, CO Police Department

... information, our Mobile Office solutions help our customers keep their officers in the community, rather than in the station, where they're a visible deterrent to crime," noted Ken Souza, Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "This is another example of how law enforcement ...

Fighting spam via blue frogs

...ty. When I met with Blue Security in early May, Reshef thought the concept would need a community of only 100,000 users in order to be an effective deterrent to spam. According to a company spokeswoman, early tests of the Do Not Intrude Registry seem to indicate that spammers are responding to the complaint...

The top 10 misconceptions of life-science patents

...ts is enormous and growing. In comparison, the cost of obtaining additional claims is "de minimus." Numerous strategic claims also can be an effective deterrent to infringement. The intersections between science, inventions, the Patent Office, the courts, and the law are complex and fascinating. Patents als...

Changes to U.S. patent law must nurture our culture of innovation

...t system, albeit flawed, has done a lot more to encourage new ideas than to thwart them. First to file Two hundred-plus years of success is no deterrent to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy , D-Vermont, who earlier this spring trotted out his latest attempt to rewrite existing patent law. Among other changes, L...