Old technology helps find new test for leg artery disease
...l disease. This test shows promise in helping drug companies test new PAD medications and, perhaps in the near future, may give doctors the ability to tell which patients are at risk for developing PAD-related complications and require stenting, bypass surgery or even amputation of a leg. A UVa cardiologist, D...On World NO Tobacco Day the ESC urges governments to spread smoking bans & tax tobacco
...plemented its smoking ban in January 2006, tobacco companies dropped their prices in an attempt to keep their customers smoking. The result was that Spaniards were able purchase a packet of cigarettes for just 1.85 euros, 26 percent less than before the smoking ban. It was the lowest price in years and led to ...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...alist. "Despite the demonstrated benefits, though, companies often cite other, more immediate investment and bo...or other tangible assets." Other roadblocks within companies include: Lack of awareness/experience with newer efficient technologies; High transaction costs...New technology detects risks of drugs to heart sooner
A new technology to enable pharmaceutical companies to determine more effectively, and earlier on in c...rug safety assessment. In response, pharmaceutical companies are in the process of investing significant resources in research that will allow them to identify c...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
...rative model in this study could have benefits for companies in reducing disability setbacks. "You can imagine ..., reproducible, and then tested in a larger study, companies would want these to be available. This would then result in having third party reimbursement for the......ises, they also fail to carry the disclaimers that companies hocking other drugs must provide. What about the side effects of the drug like nausea, vomiting, sedation, poor decision making, problems with vision, and death? Alcohol is more dangerous than many street drugs yet it is advertised like candy. It...Turning the tables on drug discovery
... confirmed, they can be supplied to pharmaceutical companies under licence in an easy-to-use condition, coated onto microplates ready for further studies and the development of the drug substance. Developing new drugs in this way is much faster than using conventional screening. It is also possible to reduce ...Cure for reading glasses may be in view
...l begin testing this year, is talking with several companies about commercial opportunities....Use marketing to improve health, say experts
...th services should borrow marketing ideas from big companies like Nike and Coca-Cola to improve people's health... For decades, the health sector has watched as big companies have used marketing to wreak havoc on public health, write the authors. Social marketing enables us ...Astellas Pharma recipient of American Urological Association Health Science Award
...alth care policy. It is only with the patronage of companies such as Astellas that the AUA can succeed in attaining its goals and helping the urologic community. Astellas has also been instrumental in supporting the "Rising Star in Urology Research Awards" program. The recipient of the award is selected by the...Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine receives $8 million from Third Frontier Program
...proaches have led to the establishment of four new companies within the past three years: Arteriocyte, Inc., RegenRx, Inc, Ohio BioGel and Cell Targeting Inc. Additionally, 61 new jobs with an average salary of $64,925, have been created since the center was established. The original Wright Center award paid...$900,000 for first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control
...rch (CIHR), Canada's Research-based Pharmaceutical companies (Rx&D), sanofi-aventis and Blood Pressure Canada (BPC) are announcing today an investment of $900,000 over five years to fund the first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control. Dr. Norm Campbell, MD, FRCPC, from the University of Calga...Doctors widely prescribe drugs without adequate scrutiny, Stanford scientist finds
...tor's prescribing a drug off-label, pharmaceutical companies are prohibited from directly promoting such uses. With colleague and first author David C. Radley, MPH, of Dartmouth Medical School's Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, and collaborator Stan N. Finkelstein, MD, of the Massachusetts Institute of...Medical journals should ban drug adverts, say researchers
...s in the year 2004 were for pharmaceuticals. Drug companies place a high value on advertising in medical journ...for targeted drugs in a dose-related manner. Drug companies get a huge return on investment (ROI) from these adverts--one study found that the ROI (the average ...When the cause is right, politics and surgery sometimes mix
...n-dollar jury verdicts in malpractice cases. Most companies providing malpractice insurance to doctors stopped offering coverage, while the rest hiked premiums dramatically. Many physicians were forced to leave the state or retire, leading to shortages in such specialties as neurosurgery and obstetrics. "Th...Little difference between human insulin and faster-acting drugs
...acting insulin analogs on behalf of pharmaceutical companies that sell the drugs, analyzed 49 studies involving 8,274 diabetes patients. Most of the participants were being treated for type 1 diabetes, and three-quarters of the studies used the analog Humalog. Insulin analogs are more expensive than human insu...Inhaled steroids preferred over cromolyn to treat asthma
...pularity has waned, Storms said. The succession of companies "did not spend one dollar in research in the past 20 years to study cromolyn. All of the data are old and most are forgotten," he said. The Cochrane reviewers examined 17 studies involving 1279 children and eight studies involving 321 adults with ast...Mega-brands have mega influence on dietary behavior
...op new, healthier mega-brands? Tillotson says that companies try, but "most market categories already have long established category leaders which are very difficult, if not impossible to dislodge." "Food companies--particularly the larger ones--have increased, or are attempting to increase, their mega-brand n...Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx
...on. This has prompted several large pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs targeting this enzyme. Such inhibitors will soon enter human trials. FitzGerald and his colleagues showed that deletion of mPGES-1, in contrast to deletion or inhibition of COX-2, did not predispose the animals to thrombosis or eleva...The corporate sponsored creation of disease - Press Release from PLoS Medicine
...special issue of PLoS Medicine devoted to how drug companies sell sickness. In the opening essay, the guest ed...s. David Healy (University of Wales) looks at how companies are "selling" bipolar disorder, leading to a surge of diagnoses of bipolar disorder in American chil...