Scientists say amending an EU directive on GMOs could help stimulate innovation in making vaccines, cheaper pharmaceuticals and organic plastics using plants. In a paper to be published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, six scientists from the US and Europe compare risk assessment and regulation...
Researchers employing a century-old observational technique have determined the precise configuration of humulones, substances derived from hops that give beer its distinctive flavor. That might not sound like a big deal to the average brewmaster, but the findings overturn results reported in...
For millions of people around the world being sick doesn't mean making a trip to the local pharmacy for medicines like Advil and Nyquil. Instead it means turning to the forest to provide a pharmacopeia of medicines to treat everything from tooth aches to chest pains. But while questions persist...
Research on the fungus that ranks as one cause of dandruff - the embarrassing nuisance that, by some accounts, afflicts half of humanity - is pointing scientists toward a much-needed new treatment for the condition's flaking and itching. The advance is the topic of a report in ACS' Journal of...
Scientific insights that expand on the teachings of Mendel, Watson and Crick, and underpinnings of the Human Genome Project are moving drug companies along the path to development of new medicines based on deeper insights into how factors other than the genetic code influence health and disease...
Researchers at Murdoch University have used new DNA sequencing technology to reveal the animal and plant composition of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs). Some of the TCM samples tested contained potentially toxic plant ingredients, allergens, and traces of endangered animals. "TCMs have a...
Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials. The researchers, reporting in Nature, aimed radiation from the Linac...
Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: medical practice helped in developing a superbug...
Medicines Australia today welcomed the Parliament's passage of a motion that the listing of new medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme should not be "subject to capricious political interference". Medicines Australia's acting chief executive Andrew Bruce said the motion should send a...
The European Medicines Agency has been informed by Baxter of the potential presence of endotoxins in their peritoneal dialysis solutions Dianeal, Extraneal and Nutrineal. These are sterile solutions used in patients who have to undergo peritoneal dialysis because of kidney failure...
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Since taking cough and cold medicines for children under 4 off the shelves, the numbers being taken to emergency departments because of overdoses from these medications have fallen considerably, researchers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) report in the medical journal...
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced that CTI's Marketing Authorization Application ("MAA") seeking approval for Pixuvri™ (pixantrone dimaleate) for the treatment of adult patients with multiply relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ("NHL") was...
The Irish Medicines Board reported that 1,216 packages of abortion medications were seized by Irish customs agents in 2009, the Irish Times reports. Abortion is illegal in Ireland except in cases where the woman's life and health is in danger. The vast majority of the seized medications -- 1,118...
The 2010 Pat Clear Award, the Australian medicines industry's most prestigious award, has been won by Dell Kingsford Smith, an executive of the pharmaceutical company Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd. The Award was presented to Ms Kingsford Smith at the Medicines Australia conference last night (Tuesday)...
The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has concluded that the benefits of the four fibrates bezafibrate, ciprofibrate, fenofibrate and gemfibrozil continue to outweigh their risks in the treatment of patients with blood lipid disorders. However...
The European Medicine Agency and the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) have awarded the first 'ENCePP study' seal to an observational study investigating the "long-term outcomes and adverse events of therapy with inhaled corticosteroids...
Anacor Pharmaceuticals today announced the establishment of a research agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to create and develop new therapeutics for animal health. The collaboration takes advantage of Anacor's boron chemistry platform and drug research capabilities with the goal of advancing...
Critical challenges remain in the centuries-old battles against infectious diseases, particularly as bacteria and viruses mutate and as the threat of bioterrorism grows. Responding to this need, America's biopharmaceutical research companies this year have 395 new medicines and vaccines in the...