News tagged with molecular pharmaceutics
Medicinal products susceptible to 'dose dumping' should be fully tested
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" — releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients who have consumed ...
New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Scientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. With names like silver ...
New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease
May 27, 2009 |
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Scientists are reporting a potential solution to a problem that limits the human body’s ability to absorb and use medications for heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, cancer and other conditions. It is a “nano-hybrid ...
'Gene silencing' may improve treatment of a deadly complication of liver disease
May 27, 2009 |
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A technique that “silences,” or turns off, genes shows promise as a potential new treatment for liver fibrosis — the disease that leads to cirrhosis — scientists in Tennessee are reporting. Their study is scheduled for the ...
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Inhalable form of gene-therapy takes aim at lung cancer and inflammatory lung disease
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new inhalable form of gene therapy — based on technology recognized in the 2006 Nobel medicine prize, shows increasing promise for treating lung cancer, infectious diseases and inflammatory lung disease, scientists have ...
New insights into thalidomide-birth defect episode
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Scientists in Germany have discovered why the medication thalidomide appeared safe in animal tests before going on the market 50 years ago, only to cause perhaps the most extensive outbreak of drug-induced birth defects in ...
Targeting tumors: Researchers develop more precise approach to delivery of chemotherapy drugs
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemotherapy is one of the most effective ways to fight cancer, but the toxic medicine can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue. UC Irvine's Kenneth Longmuir, physiology & biophysics ...
Researcher Looks For Better Way to Kill Cancer Cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2008 |
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Physics Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky brought more with her when she arrived at UT Dallas than expertise in nanotechnology and shiny behemoth lab equipment. She brought an award for $84,000 from the National ...
Polymer Nanoparticles Create Potential Anticancer Vaccine
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 29, 2007 |
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Using a biodegradable nanoparticle as a means of delivering tumor cell debris and proteins to the immune system, investigators at Yale University have developed a promising new method for creating therapeutic anticancer vaccines. ...
Researcher aim to 'unmask' cancer cells to trigger body's immune system
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Cancer cells are deadly traitors, good cells gone bad. They evade the body's defense systems, passing themselves off as organisms that pose no threat.
Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Spell Relief for Millions of Diabetics (w/ Video)
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers have developed a tiny wireless device that can be inserted under a patient?s skin to monitor blood glucose levels over a period of several months.
Mechanism of black cohosh versus hot flashes revealed
Dec 21, 2006 |
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The natural herb black cohosh is commonly used by women to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying its action have eluded scientists -- until now.
An HIV-blocking gel for women
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 10, 2009 |
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University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid ...
No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2007 |
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The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellant, to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems ...
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