News tagged with investigational drug
Investors to get Google records on online drug ads
(AP) -- A Delaware judge has given Google Inc. until April 9 to give a pension fund investors company documents involving what authorities said was the illegal online marketing of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers by ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Resistance to antibiotics is ancient: study
Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less than a century ago. Now scientists at McMaster University have found that resistance has been ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Glaxo pays 41 million to settle US drug quality matter
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday it is paying 41 million dollars to settle allegations of poor drug quality at a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Glowing Cornell dots -- a potential cancer diagnostic tool set for human trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of a new technology: Cornell Dots, brightly glowing nanoparticles that can light up cancer cells in PET-optical imaging.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Report: Google ad inquiry focused on pharmacies
(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 ...
May 13, 2011 |
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Cytokinetics announces fundamental research in cardiac myosin activation
Cytokinetics, Inc. announced today the publication of preclinical research in the March 18, 2011 issue of the journal Science regarding the activation of cardiac myosin by an investigational drug candidate, omecamtiv mecarb ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Unexpected new mechanism behind rheumatoid arthritis
A team of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has identified an enzyme that protects against inflammation and joint destruction. Made when the researchers blocked production of the enzyme GGTase-I in transgenic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Novel drug offers hope for early intervention in cystic fibrosis patients
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with normal to mildly impaired lung function may benefit from a new investigational drug designed to help prevent formation of the sticky mucus that is a hallmark of the disease, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Assessing positive outcomes of phase III trials
Randomized phase III studies should be designed to find out whether a new drug or treatment makes a meaningful difference in patients' survival or quality of life, according to a commentary published online December 3rd in ...
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Brain scans show effects of Parkinson's drug
Neuroscientists using a new brain imaging technique could see an investigational drug for Parkinson's disease get into a patient's brain and affect blood flow in several key structures, an indicator the drug ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Initial Hepatitis C drug trial complete
The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by Hepatitis C virus have been successfully completed.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Trials begin on potent new hepatitis C drug
The first clinical trials have started on a new investigational drug, discovered by researchers at Cardiff University, which is being developed to treat infections caused by Hepatitis C virus.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 14, 2010 |
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Vancouver Island has one of the highest rates of Cryptococcus infection in the world
Cryptococcus disease is a rare but serious infection resulting from inhaling a toxic fungus often found in fir trees. Approximately 250 people have been infected with the disease in British Columbia since its emergence in 199 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 04, 2010 |
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Old drug with a new purpose may offer hope for children with neuroblastoma
A new Phase I clinical trial sponsored by the Vermont Cancer Center at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care has opened to test the investigational drug DFMO, or alpha-difluoromethylornithine, as a treatment ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Retreating patients with hepatitis C: Telaprevir boosts cure rate
Adding the investigational drug telaprevir to standard treatment for hepatitis C infection cures about half the patients willing to give therapy a second try. That compares to a cure rate of just 14 percent among those who ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 07, 2010 |
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