Data showed improved quality of life and patient satisfaction with SYMBICORT
Wilmington, DE May 22, 2007 New data demonstrated that the combination asthma therapy, SYMBICORT (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate), led to significant improvements in health-related quality of life (HRQL) and greater patient-reported satisfaction with asthma treatment, versus its monocomponents (budesonide or formoterol) or placebo. The results from these two 12-week randomized, doub...Howe School lecture -- Changing the Management of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, May 3
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The Howe School Alliance for Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology will host the lecture, "Enabling Technology: Changing the Management of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance," on Thursday, May 3. The event is part of the Evening Lecture series and will feature speaker: Michael Breggar, DPM, director, Life Sciences and Health Care, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.......New analysis showed UC patients in clinical remission had higher rates of employment
LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Results from a new analysis of the ACT trials (Active Ulcerative Colitis Trials 1 & 2) presented today at Digestive Disease Week showed that, among patients not employed at baseline in the studies, significantly more patients in clinical remission at weeks 30 and 54 were employed, compared to those not in clinical remission. In addition, of ten patients receiving disability c...ROZEREM (ramelteon) showed significant reduction in time to fall asleep
San Diego Results of a sub-analysis from a Phase III clinical study showed that ROZEREM (ramelteon) significantly reduced time to fall asleep in adults with chronic insomnia and showed no evidence of rebound insomnia or withdrawal effects. The results were presented today at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. ...... In this placebo-controlled analysis, approximately...Does manganese inhaled from the shower represent a public health threat?
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A new analysis based on animal studies suggests that showering in manganese-contaminated water for a decade or more could have permanent effects on the nervous system. The damage may occur even at levels of manganese considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.... ..."If our results are confir...New study showed ramelteon helped adults with chronic insomnia fall asleep, sleep longer
Denver, CO, June 20, 2005 Ramelteon, a novel investigational compound under review with the FDA for the treatment of insomnia, reduced the time it took to fall asleep and increased total sleep time in adults with chronic insomnia, according to results from a Phase 3 study presented this week at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). Results of the study al...