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New drug development still takes 8 years despite faster FDA review, according to Tufts CSDD

Medicine & Health / Other

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

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 ...


When less is more: Brief inhibition of cancer target is effective and less toxic

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research shows that the delicate balance between maximum clinical impact and toxicity may not be quite as fragile as scientists had previously believed. The study, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the ...





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St. Jude and UF Proton Therapy Institute to begin proton therapy clinical trial

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first ...


New cancer drug test promises safer and more effective clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A group of scientists from Hamburg may have taken a big step towards more effective cancer drug development, Europe's largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 - ESMO 34, heard today. Dr Ilona Schonn, Director of Cell Culture Research ...


Where's the science? The sorry state of psychotherapy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4

The prevalence of mental health disorders in this country has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Who is treating all of these patients? Clinical psychologists and therapists are charged with the task, but many are falling ...


NSAIDs prevent early sign of Alzheimer disease in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

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

If taking nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or naproxen is to protect you from developing Alzheimer disease then you will have to start taking them at a very early age according to new research ...


New tracer for better melanoma image

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Australian research published this week in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Medicinal Chemistry describes a new radiopharmaceutical tracer that promises to give clearer pictures of melanoma and could lead t ...


National report shines light on lupus 50-year treatment drought

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today, The Lewin Group, a national health care consulting firm, issued recommendations on ways to overcome the barriers that have obstructed lupus drug development resulting in no new drug approval for this disease in more ...


Neuroscientist's discovery of new uses for old drug leads to patents, innovation award

Neuroscientist's discovery of new uses for old drug leads to patents, innovation award

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of South Florida neuroscientist R. Douglas Shytle's discovery of successful new clinical uses for mecamylamine, a drug once used to treat hypertension, has led to several issued patents on mecamylamine ...


Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.


New cause of osteoporosis: Mutation in a miroRNA

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Many biological processes are controlled by small molecules known as microRNAs, which work by suppressing the expression of specific sets of genes. Xiang-Hang Luo and colleagues, at Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South ...


Researchers propose a relationship between androgen deficiency and cardiovascular disease

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created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with researchers from Lahey Clinic Northshore, Peabody, Mass., believe that androgen deficiency might be the underlying cause for a variety of ...



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