TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
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...to treat patients. Khavari said he could imagine a drug that blocks the collagen VII fragment being used pre-emptively to prevent skin cancer from spreading in people who are highly susceptible, such as children with RDEB or people who are chronically immune suppressed due to organ transplantation. Despit...Patient with drug-resistant form of HIV identified
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...ities that provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections could reduce syringe sharing among user...er injection facility in September 2003. Injection drug users in the facility can access sterile injecting equipment, inject preobtained illicit drugs under...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
... treatment practices, including recommendations on drug and procedure usage. Professor Priori states, "W... and guidelines focus on such data in recommending drug dosages and procedures. Thus women are being treated as if they are men, despite the notable differ...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
...separation processes has not been available to the drug industry. Now Virginia Tech researchers with suppo...rcritical fluid chromatography (SFC) to be used in drug development. The research will be presented at the 229th American Chemical Society national meeting ...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...cognize methamphetamine and boost tolerance to the drug through an unusual vaccine-like mechanism. Their f...IV. The new study is the first to suggest that the drug can engage the body's defense system to attack methamphetamine in such a way that makes users inclin...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...icle. It is likely to increase the risk of adverse drug events, which are estimated to be the fifth most c...c (medication used to reduce anxiety or agitation) drug use (1.8 times increased risk), and depression (1.3 times increased risk). The odds of potentially i...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...atic cells more sensitive to gemcitabine, the sole drug available for treating pancreatic cancer. This discovery may lead to new drug development strategies for other cancers. Additional research will tell whether these same actors pl...Does the college experience damage your brain?
...will speak on the use of meditation to treat ADHD, drug addiction, and depression. The conference will also inaugurate the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition-the first university lab dedicated to research on meditation and brain functioning in college students....New ways to design safer & more effective topical (transdermal) drug delivery announced in the PNAS
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... introduction of routine HIV-1 gene sequencing for drug resistance. Scientists used this data to follow the changing number of infected individuals through time and estimate the demographic parameters shaping the epidemic. During the exponential growth phase, the transmission chains had an average growth...Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
... answer numerous questions about their alcohol and drug use, as well as their character traits and mood states, and to perform verbal IQ, working memory and vigilance tasks. Those individuals identified as binge drinkers reported less-positive moods than did non-binge drinkers. In addition, female binge...Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue
...t signal molecules deep within the body to deliver drug therapy," says Brewer, associate professor of chemistry. Matthew Mongelli of Maywood N.J., a postdoctoral associate in chemistry, and his colleagues in chemistry and biology at Virginia Tech, have been working with Theralase Technologies Inc. to desi...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...rs for aging that would allow the FDA to approve a drug designed to slow the aging process. Although Congress supplemented scarce aging research dollars by establishing the National Institute on Aging in 1974, that money has predominately gone to disease specific research, such as Alzheimer's disease, or...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
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...son's patients on levodopa treatment an additional drug called rasagiline once daily can improve their mot...ce daily regimen was convenient to administer. The drug was well tolerated in the old-age group (d70). Professor Rascol states: "This study has shown that r...Drug abuse treatment slashes HIV-related sex behaviors in urban meth addicts
...udy evaluated the effectiveness of four behavioral drug abuse treatments in reducing methamphetamine use a...demic in the United States is integrally linked to drug use. Effective drug abuse treatments that produce lasting behavioral changes among addicts at risk o...