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, but their biochemical identity has remained elusive. Now, an Arizona State University researc...FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines
As part of an agency-wide initiative to speed development of new medical products through the science of pharmacogenomics, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a final guidance titled "Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions." Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option...Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines
The ability to select and develop compounds that act on specific cellular targets has just gained a computational ally ?a mathematical algorithm that predicts the precise effects a given compound will have on a cell’s molecular components or chemical processes. Using this tool, drug developers can design compounds that will act on only desired gene and protein targets, eliciting therapeutic respo...MIT chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines
MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature. After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret. Scientists already knew that a particular enzyme was able to coax a reaction out of stubborn chemical concoctions to generate a large family of medically valuable compounds called halo...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. Yet the rat...Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes
Research shows that using antiplatelet medication called clopidogrel before coronary angioplasty surgery often reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular problems like heart attacks, or strokes.// The research paper was published in the latest issue of JAMA. Dual antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention using a combination of drugs such as ticlopidine or clo...Wake Up Call: U.N Takes Stock to Curb Fake Medicines Racket
The Counterfeit Medicines Racket is growing at alarming proportions. The United Nations has risen to the occasion, driving a // world wide initiative , by way of a task force team that would strive to put an end to the sale of counterfeit drugs. A three day meeting is underway in Rome, starting today, February 16th, where all the key players - Pharamaceutical companies, Regulatory bodies and gro...Diuretics are better for treating blood pressure problems than newer medicines
According to the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) // results, most effective treatment of high blood pressure seems to be diuretics of the thiazide variety that are also sometimes known as the water pills. In the results of the study was published in this week’s The Journal of American Medical association. ALLHAT is considered one of...Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines
The FDA today issued a final guidance titled "Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions" to speed// development of new medical products through the science of pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option for this individual. This technology has enabled the developm...