The first ever analysis of the global and regional prevalence of dependence upon the four major categories of illicit drugs - amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine, and opioids (such as heroin) - has revealed that opioid dependence causes the greatest health burden (overall death and illness) of all...
A drug currently used to treat leukaemia might also help prevent breast cancer from spreading to other parts of the body, suggests an animal study in the open-access journal Breast Cancer Research. The discovery could also pave the way for improved early diagnostics. Peter Storz and colleagues...
Haloperidol, an antipsychotic drug used in many hospitals to treat delirium in critically ill patients, is no more effective than placebo in reducing the number of days that critically ill patients spend either delirious or in a coma, according to new research published in The Lancet Respiratory...
to-BBB, the brain drug delivery company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its 2B3-101 Phase I part of its clinical trial in brain cancer patients, safely reaching clinically effective dosages. to-BBB is now ready to proceed to the Phase IIa part of this trial, treating...
Scientists are developing a drug that may be effective in treating two sexually transmitted infections at once - HIV and genital herpes - as well as potentially preventing the spread of HIV from one person to another. Researchers from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium say the...
What if we could use a novel approach for delivering currently injectable drugs to the body without syringes? What if we could destroy malignant cancer cells in difficult areas of the body that cannot yet be targeted? Zakareya Hussein and Atif Syed, Students at York University are doing research...
2nd International Conference On Medicinal Chemistry & Computer Aided Drug Designing,
MedChem & CADD-2013 is a remarkable event which brings together pharmaceutical companies, leading universities, small biotechnology enterprises, government agencies and research institutions to share ideas...
The US FDA have notified the Austrian biotech company Activartis that Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) has been granted for its innovative Cancer Immunotherapy AV0113. The ODD applies specifically to the use of AV0113 for the treatment of malignant glioma, a very aggressive type of brain cancer...
The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion regarding Raptor Pharmaceutical Corporation's drug, Procysbi, for treating proven nephropathic cystinosis, a rare inherited genetic disorder that causes irreversible tissue damage, organ failure and...
Could drugs that block the body's system for repairing damage to the genetic material DNA become a boon to health? As unlikely as it may seem, those compounds are sparking optimism as potential treatments for ovarian and breast cancers driven by a mutation in BRCA, a gene that made headlines...
Pyrazinamide (PZA) - a frontline tuberculosis (TB) drug - kills dormant persister bacteria and plays a critical role in shortening TB therapy. PZA is used for treating both drug susceptible and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) but resistance to PZA occurs frequently and can compromise treatment...
UK and Australian scientists have been able to show ways in which we can markedly improve drug targeting of solid tumours, using tiny 'biosensors' along with new advanced imaging techniques. In real time and in three dimensions, these technologies can show us how cancers spread and how active...
NJIT Assistant Professor Mei Liu, PhD, a computer scientist, has recently shown in a new study that electronic medical records can validate previously reported adverse drug reactions and report new ones. "Comparative Analysis of Pharmacovigilance Methods in Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions...
The first randomised trial to investigate the treatment of low bone density in young people with cystic fibrosis (CF), published Online First in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, provides compelling evidence that alendronate (a drug that curbs bone loss) is safe and can help increase bone mineral...
Food insecurity increases the risk of death among injection drug users living with HIV/AIDS even when they are receiving life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a new study involving Simon Fraser University. The study, recently published in the peer-reviewed science journal...
The scientists who led the team that developed Glybera, the first gene therapy drug approved for use in the Western world, provide a fascinating first-person account of their pioneering work in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. In addition, an...
Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma - a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children - cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs. A study published by Cell Press in the journal Chemistry & Biology reveals a new genomic approach to screen for compounds that...
A drug that already has FDA approval for other uses was found to both prevent and reverse brain damage in mice with Alzheimer's disease. More »
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Research presented today shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioural reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine. These results, presented by addiction expert Francesco Leri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science at the...