News tagged with drug samples
GAO investigators say DNA tests give bogus results
A government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inheritable diseases are misleading and offer little or no useful information.
Jul 25, 2010 |
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Bits of life, drop by drop
(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss scientists are working on creating artificial living tissues using a very special kind of inkjet printer. Still in its initial stages, this technology could nonetheless soon provide ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Using hair to manage HIV/AIDS and predict treatment success
UCSF researchers have found that examining levels of antiretroviral drugs in hair samples taken from HIV patients on therapy strongly predicts treatment success.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 03, 2009 |
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'TF beacons' may light path to new cancer tests and drugs
Scientists are reporting development of a long-sought new way to detect the activity of proteins that bind to the DNA in genes, often controlling the activity of genes in ways that make cells do everything ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Providing free drug samples to patients risks harm to public health
The tradition of American physicians handing out free drug samples to their patients "has many serious disadvantages and is as anachronistic as bloodletting and high colonic irrigations," say two academics in an essay in ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 12, 2009 |
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New technique enables study of 'challenging' proteins
Researchers from Hull, Bristol and Frankfurt have shown that a new technique for identifying molecular structure can be used effectively on small samples of biological proteins, particularly proteins that are targeted for ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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New technique enables drug tests via exhaled breath
A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet presents a new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air for the first time. By examining people who had received emergency care for ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 19, 2010 |
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New silicon probe assists in disease diagnostics and drug discovery
IBM scientists have developed a flexible, non-contact microfluidic probe made from silicon can aid researchers and pathologists to investigate critical tissue samples accurately for disease diagnostics and ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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