News tagged with thalidomide
Solving the 50-year-old puzzle of thalidomide
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Research into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs and other tissues. The article, published ...
Thalidomide does not improve survival in small cell lung cancer
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Treating patients with thalidomide in combination with chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) did not improve their survival but did increase their risk of blood clots, according to a new study published online July ...
Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed ...
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Study finds thalidomide shows promise for treatment of recurrent ovarian cancer
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Thalidomide, a drug blamed in the 1950s for causing birth defects, is now showing promise as a safe and effective treatment for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, according to a study led by a University of Minnesota Cancer ...
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 ...
Japan may regulate thalidomide
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Doctors in Japan will be required to register patients who are using the drug thalidomide under proposed regulations, the Japan Times reported.
Thalidomide film to air in Germany
May 19, 2007 |
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A film about the drug thalidomide, which caused thousands of children to be born disabled, will air on German television.
Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
Results promising for computational quantum chemical methods for drug development
Dec 20, 2007 |
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New research, led by a Virginia Tech chemist, may someday help natural-products chemists decrease by years the amount of time it takes for the development of certain types of medicinal drugs. The research by T. Daniel Crawford, ...
Drug combination improves or stabilizes disease for relapsed multiple myeloma patients
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a new combination of medications designed to maximize immune functions improved or stabilized multiple myeloma for 76 percent of patients who had relapsed after previous treatment.
Better treatments for malaria in pregnancy are needed
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Malaria in pregnancy threatens the life of both mother and child, and yet there has been very little research on how best to treat it, say a team of malaria experts in this week's PLoS Medicine.
Controlling the building blocks of life
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, ...
Duke chemist has new way to tell right from left
Jun 05, 2008 |
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A Duke University chemist has apparently solved a long-standing frustration in creating certain synthetic molecules that make up drugs, which could lead to better drugs with fewer side effects.
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