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Totally drug-resistant TB found in Mumbai
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 A strain of tuberculosis said to be resistant to all antibiotics has been reported in...

Mozambique to produce its own antiretrovirals
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 Mozambique health minister Alexandre Manguele has confirmed that the country will begin producing its own antiretrovirals to combat high HIV rates, becoming the first African country to do...

AstraZeneca compounds now available to UK researchers
Thursday, December 15, 2011 A landmark agreement between the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and AstraZeneca will allow researchers free access to a number of high potential...

Breast cancer patients quit drugs due to severe side-effects, study finds
Monday, December 12, 2011 A US study has revealed that 36% of postmenopausal breast cancer patients stop taking medication early because side effects are more severe than they...

Early treatment linked to life expectancy rise in HIV patients
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Life expectancy among people treated for HIV has increased by more than 15 years in the past decade thanks to modern antiretroviral therapy, according to a study compiled by UK...

UK announces largest-ever research investment
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 The UK Government has announced five-year funding worth £800m for research into diagnosis, prevention and treatment, the nation's largest-ever investment into early-stage health research. ...

Data Pooling Could Repurpose Old Drugs, Say Scientists
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Scientists believe they could unlock many new uses for old medicines through matching up two online computer programmes, one that catalogues gene activity and another that monitors drug effects. ...

Enzo Discover Novel Target for Metabolic Bone Disease
Thursday, July 07, 2011 Enzo Biochem has reported the discovery of new class of proteins that have been shown to inhibit the Wnt signalling pathway, and therefore mediate the development of a number of...

Life Technologies to Develop DNA Sequencing Test for Tumours
Thursday, June 23, 2011 Life Technologies has won a UK Technology Strategy Board grant to fund development of a commercial multi-gene sequencing test that will provide comprehensive molecular profiles of tumours in...

Roche Supplies E. Coli Testing Devices as European Outbreak Continues
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Roche Applied Science has joined forces with TIB Molbiol to provide scientists in Europe with complementary technologies to detect enterohaemorrhagic E. coli. There has been a...

Emergent Anticipates US Government Order for Anthrax Vaccine
Friday, May 27, 2011 The US Government has notified Emergent BioSolutions of its intention to award a sole source contract for 44.75 million doses of BioThrax, the only anthrax vaccine licensed by the US Food and...

Russian Pharmaceutical Market Driven by Hepatitis C
Monday, May 23, 2011 An alarming number of Hepatitis C patients in Russia is driving the country's pharmaceutical industry, with Roche and Schering-Plough benefitting particularly. According to the 'Russian...

Bill Gates Challenges Leaders to Prioritise Immunisation
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has called on government leaders and the pharmaceutical industry to save ten million lives by investing in immunisation. In...

Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Found to Reduce Antidepressant Efficacy
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Scientists at Rockefeller University in the US have conducted a study and confirmed that anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen reduce the ability of...

FDA Recommends Two Pancreatic Cancer Drugs
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee has recommended the use of two drugs, one developed by Novartis and the other by Pfizer, for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. ...

World "On The Brink" of Losing Miracle Cures
Thursday, April 07, 2011 The world is heading towards a "post-antibiotic" era, in which common infections will no longer have a cure, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. In an urgent statement to the...

Japan Hands Out Cancer Drugs as Radiation Risk Grows
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 The Japanese Government is handing out iodine pills to prevent the risk of thyroid cancer, as radioactive steam spews from nuclear reactors following a massive earthquake and subsequent...

Heart Medication Could Cut Dementia Risk
Wednesday, March 09, 2011 Medication used to treat atrial fibrillation in stroke survivors could prevent the development of dementia, research published in the Neurology has found. Experts at the University of...

Cortex Announces Results of Apnoea Trial
Friday, February 04, 2011 US-based Cortex Pharmaceuticals has announced encouraging results from its exploratory clinical study of Ampakine compound CX1739 in patients with sleep apnoea. The study found that...

Australia to Improve Health Services for the Mentally Ill
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has said that it hopes to help the government to deliver early gains in the health-reform process and improve the health outcomes of patients with...