http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Google Inc. recently set aside $500 million to cover a possible settlement of a U.S. government investigation into the Internet search leader's distribution of online ads from illegal pharmacies, according to a report published Thursday. http://phys.org/news224490412.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 07:27:10 EST news224490412 Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown that search algorithms used in digital communications can help scientists identify effective multi-drug combinations. The study, led by Giovanni Paternostro, M.D., Ph.D., was published in the December 26, 2008, issue of PLoS Computational Biology. http://phys.org/news150726449.html Biology Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:27:29 EST news150726449 While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug has quickened review and approval of new medicines, the complex nature of diseases for which new therapeutics are being developed has resulted in longer clinical development times, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. http://phys.org/news150647377.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:29:37 EST news150647377 Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has developed tests for a class of drugs that they believe could be used in the near future. http://phys.org/news150616173.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:49:33 EST news150616173 Influenza's ability to resist the effects of cheap and popular antiviral agents in Asia and Russia should serve as a cautionary tale about U.S. plans to use the antiviral Tamiflu in the event of widespread avian flu infection in humans, scientists say. http://phys.org/news150558036.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:36 EST news150558036 (PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at Georgia State University’s Neuroscience Institute and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience are the first to identify the most likely reason analgesic drug treatment is usually less potent in females than males. This discovery is a major step toward finding more effective treatments for females suffering from persistent pain. http://phys.org/news150389673.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:54:33 EST news150389673 Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a team of researchers report. But the investigators highlight the proven superiority of the six-week regimen in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in breast-fed infants. http://phys.org/news150389022.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:42 EST news150389022 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion. http://phys.org/news149860678.html Nanotechnology Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:57:58 EST news149860678 Some supermarkets, gourmet shops and bakeries routinely sell mislabeled products that pose a danger to children with food allergies, according to Chicago Tribune testing and a comprehensive check of grocery aisles. When informed of the findings, more than a dozen companies and stores said they would remove products from shelves or fix labels to properly disclose all ingredients. http://phys.org/news149842199.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:49:59 EST news149842199 University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have discovered a new therapy for transplant patients, targeting the antibody-producing plasma cells that can cause organ rejection. http://phys.org/news149572494.html Medicine & Health Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:54:54 EST news149572494 Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. http://phys.org/news149270450.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:50 EST news149270450 Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself? http://phys.org/news148830316.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:45:16 EST news148830316 Patients receiving drug eluting stents (DES) — stents coated with medication to prevent narrowing of the artery — as part of an angioplasty had better outcomes one year later than patients with bare metal stents, according to a new study to be published in CMAJ. http://phys.org/news148796679.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:24:39 EST news148796679 Surgery to treat obesity could be avoided if GPs and healthcare trusts put more time and money into early stage weight management programmes, a senior clinical researcher will say today. http://phys.org/news148706516.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:21:56 EST news148706516 Scientists investigating the 2006 Northwick Park drug-trial disaster that left six healthy volunteers hospitalised say they have developed new pre-clinical tests that could have stopped the trial from ever going ahead. http://phys.org/news148624545.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:35:45 EST news148624545 (PhysOrg.com) -- Grid technology developed by European researchers offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and ‘virtually’ around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety of applications. http://phys.org/news148575326.html Technology Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:55:26 EST news148575326 Scientists in Oregon and Washington State are reporting the development and successful testing of a new method for determining the extent of illicit drug use in entire communities from water flushed down toilets that enters municipal wastewater treatment plants. The technique may be an effective tool for comparing drug use in different regions of the United States and the world, they note in a study is scheduled for the December 15 issue of ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. http://phys.org/news148573868.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:31:08 EST news148573868 Researchers in Pennsylvania are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast cancer cells growing in laboratory cultures. The discovery could lead to the development of a new generation of anti-cancer drugs that are safer and more effective than conventional chemotherapy agents, the scientists suggest. The research is scheduled for the Dec. 10 issue of ACS' Nano Letters. http://phys.org/news148573402.html Nanotechnology Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:23:22 EST news148573402 Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs. http://phys.org/news148193135.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:45:35 EST news148193135 Pharmaceutical companies and universities are racing to develop drugs that use the gene silencing mechanism known as RNA interference to treat a host of diseases. Now, a new study opens up an entirely new possibility for this powerful tool: Researchers at the University of Georgia have demonstrated for the first time that RNA interference can be used as a tool in the development of vaccines. http://phys.org/news148148345.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:19:05 EST news148148345 Injection drug users sentenced to compulsory detention under China's paradoxical policies on HIV/AIDS and narcotics suffer human rights abuses that may imperil their health, says a new study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://phys.org/news148057492.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:04:52 EST news148057492 Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers have found that an experimental drug successfully blocks an enzyme that causes some bone marrow cancers. http://phys.org/news148049243.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:47:23 EST news148049243 A drug commonly used to treat epilepsy could help clear the plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at the University of Leeds. The plaques are known to lead to the progressive death of nerve cells in the brain linked to many forms of dementia. http://phys.org/news147953848.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:17:28 EST news147953848 Researchers at Ohio State devised a new dosing schedule for the drug to increase its anti-tumor activity. http://phys.org/news147927835.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:03:55 EST news147927835 The "cost" of top-up payments to the NHS are not confined to the cost of the drug and require the NHS to make some long overdue changes or risk financial failure, argue two editorials published in Clinical Oncology, by Elsevier. http://phys.org/news147531306.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:06 EST news147531306 With new drugs being reviewed by regulatory agencies and then released onto the market faster than ever before, patients' safety is being compromised, warns a study published on bmj.com today. http://phys.org/news147507104.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:11:44 EST news147507104 A team of researchers from Monash University, The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), Harvard Medical School and Vanda Pharmaceuticals has found a new drug with the potential to alleviate jet lag and sleep disorders caused by shift work. http://phys.org/news147447772.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:42:52 EST news147447772 In one of the first instances of targeted drug design in psychiatric treatment, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found an experimental agent that shows promise in addressing working memory impairments that occur in schizophrenia. http://phys.org/news147353305.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:28:25 EST news147353305 A physicist from The University of Nottingham and a mathematical modeller from The University of Southampton are joining forces in the hope of answering a biological mystery — how do our bodies reject some of the drugs that are sent to cure us? http://phys.org/news147351716.html Biology Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:01:56 EST news147351716 Malaria, one of the oldest diseases known to man, has shown no signs of slowing down as it ages. More than 1 million children die from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa each year, and in areas along the Thailand/Cambodian border multiple drug-resistant strains of the disease are becoming commonplace. http://phys.org/news146922049.html Biology Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:40:49 EST news146922049