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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...

ASHP Releases First Book on Intelligent Infusion Devices
Thursday, January 27, 2011 The American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) has published the first book devoted to the use of intelligent infusion devices. Written by a fellow of ASHP Pamela Phelps,...

Australia Subsidises Skin Infection Drug Following Floods
Thursday, January 20, 2011 The Federal Government of Australia has subsidised ciprofloxacin, a drug used to treat skin infections caused by dirty water. The drug will be made available to victims of flooding in...

FDA Approves Merck's HPV Vaccine for Anal Cancer and AIN Prevention
Friday, December 24, 2010 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for Merck's Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The approval applies to the prevention of anal cancer caused...

Reports Warns of Dangers Alternative Medicines Pose to Children
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Alternative remedies could be harmful to children and could lead to death, a report has revealed. The remedies, which some parents believe to be more natural than conventional medicines,...

EU Funds Transnational Research into Nanomedicine
Thursday, November 11, 2010 EuroNanoMed, a European funding initiative under the ERA-Net scheme of the European Commission, has received €8m for collaborative research projects. The money will be used to find...

Cure for Colds Could be on the Cards
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 Scientists in the UK could be a step closer to finding a cure for viruses such as the common cold after pinpointing a mechanism that the body uses to fight off illnesses. Research carried out...

GlaxoSmithKline Increases Worm Drug Donation to Africa
Friday, October 15, 2010 GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will donate a further 400 million albendazole tablets a year to treat children in Africa at risk of intestinal worms. The company already donates...