University research wins royal accolade
...ructural biology, molecular and cellular sciences, drug delivery and tissue engineering. It is also a centre of excellence in social research in medicines and health. The school was singled out for enhancing significantly the development of new medicines. Sir Andrew will present the award during a rec...Hormone therapy offers new hope for ovarian cancer patients
...st time that the targeted use of an anti-oestrogen drug could prolong the life of some patients by up to three years, and delay the use of chemotherapy in others. Letrozole hormone therapy already used with great success in the treatment of breast tumours - attacks cancer by turning off its oestrogen s...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...template taking a prescription or over-the-counter drug for their condition become more likely to engage i...s boomerang effect happens for two reasons. First, drug marketing undermines motivation to live a healthy lifestyle why bother eating low-fat foods when a ...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
...al chemistry and pharmacognosy and director of the drug discovery program at UIC. "This work gives us a go...ffective against malaria. "This is a new area of drug discovery for the 22nd century," Kozikowski said....Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
... slice a hefty amount off of Americas prescription drug costs. While only some types of pills can be split... had an impact on one large employers prescription drug plan: U-M used them to justify a pill-splitting program that launched in early 2006. In its first fu...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
...ealth have been leading the process for paediatric drug reform over the last ten years. And the European Union has proposed the Better Medicines for Children regulation and devised a research strategy to improve paediatric medicines research in the hope of increasing the availability of licensed medicines...UCLA researchers develop new nanomaterials to deliver anti-cancer drugs to cells
...lica-based nanoparticles to deliver the anticancer drug camptothecin and other water-insoluble drugs into ...porating the representative hydrophobic anticancer drug camptothecin into the pores of fluorescent mesoporous silica nanoparticles and delivering the partic...Low libido in menopause linked to trouble sleeping
... affects some womens libido. Before starting any drug treatment for changes that happen in menopause, women need to weigh their individual risks and benefits with their doctors, said Dr. Reed. She advocates beginning with self-care to lessen depression and sleep problems (see below). Previous studies ha...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
...endemicity. The Review also examines the role of drug users, short- and long-haul travellers, and tattoos and body piercing. The authors say that the advantages of a universal vaccination programme include that it is the most effective means of reducing the global burden of a particular disease. It al...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
...hese findings would increase the desirability of a drug that [might work through this mechanism] to increase fat oxidation in the liver," added Maratos-Flier, noting that the rise in obesity has contributed to a growing epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Although the physiology remained uncerta...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
The investigational drug axitinib produced tumor regression or stable disea... refractory to standard measures." Although this drug did not produce complete responses, it appears to have caused "significant tumor reduction in most s...Study shows Diachrome improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes
... With these clinical research outcomes, Diachromes drug retail presence will expand beyond CVS and Walgreens. The form of chromium in Diachrome, Chromax chromium picolinate, that was used in these studies has been recognized as safe by many of the worlds leading government and academic research institut...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
...formation that enables the physician to change the drug regimen or perhaps stop treatment, he says. Dr. Moreno notes that the prostate specific antigen has been a powerful biomarker for cancer presence and a useful way to gauge treatment effectiveness for years, though it has some flaws. He thinks that ...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
...erns Feinberg School of Medicine, has identified a drug that controls persistent nerve pain by targeting t...t experiences the emotional suffering of pain. The drug is D-Cycloserine, which has been used to treat phobic behavior over the past decade. In animal s...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
... Mich. Eight years after being treated with a new drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 86 percent of patients... lymph system, who received the radioimmunotherapy drug Bexxar as their first treatment for the disease. Ninety-five percent of the patients saw their tumor...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...rientation, persistent sadness, disordered eating, drug use and gun possession. While our study focused on public high school students in a single urban area, our results are likely generalizable to urban youth across the United States, the authors conclude. Questions about violence, depression, anxiet...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...ves journals. Ecstasy is an illicit recreational drug popular among young people, according to backgroun...earch in both humans and animals suggests that the drug can harm the brain. Ecstasy may damage nerve cells that respond to the hormone serotonin, which is i...Increased rates of methylphenidate use in children following parental divorce
...niversity of Alberta study. Methylphenidate is a drug commonly prescribed for attention deficit hyperact...DHD) in children. The rapid increase in use of the drug over the past few decades has been noted in numerous countries, including Canada. Using data from ...... Research on the effectiveness of a major class of drug statins, used to reduce cholesterol has come und...usions favouring the sponsors own product than the drug with which it was compared Lisa Bero and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco...