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Drug-resistant swine flu cluster on Vietnam train

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A cluster of seven people infected with a Tamiflu-resistant strain of pandemic H1N1 influenza has been identified in Vietnam by a team including Oxford researchers.


British researchers: little evidence Tamiflu works

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.


New data show breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy holds promise as new treatment for hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study published online in this week's Science shows that SPC3649, a breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy developed by Santaris Pharma A/S, holds promise as a novel treatment for patients infected with the Hepatitis C viru ...


'Rational drug design' identifies fragments of FDA-approved drugs relevant to emerging viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new ...


Researchers identify new mechanism of blocking HIV-1 from entering cells

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Publishing in PLoS Pathogens, researchers at from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found a novel mechanism by which drugs block HIV-1 from entering host cells.


Potential cancer drug may offer new hope for asthma patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A drug being tested to treat cancer could also help patients suffering from asthma, research has suggested.


Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United ...


Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As they pop the champagne corks to celebrate New Year's Eve, drug industry executives will likely be glad to put 2009 behind them. That's because pharmaceutical companies who make top-selling drugs for heart ...


GAO: FDA yet to make safety changes post-Vioxx

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.


H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.



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