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Celebrity chef Tonia Buxton gets optimal levels of vitamin D with BetterYou’s oral spray

Are you tired? Feeling low? Suffer from headaches, aches and pains? You could be suffering from vitamin D deficiency.

From BetterYou Ltd 25 Oct 2016

MTPConnect to provide $7.4 million funding for 14 national projects in medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector

MTPConnect - the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre - today announced it will provide $7.4 million of funding over two years for 14 national projects in the medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical (MTP) sector.

25 Oct 2016

GAFFI: Access to rapid diagnostics, antifungals could prevent over a million AIDS-related deaths by 2020

Fungal infection causes around half of AIDS-related deaths, of which there were 1,100,000 in 2015. A first of its kind analysis – ‘Modelling reduction in AIDS deaths’ by the University of Manchester’s Professor David W Denning and published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – suggests that the opportunity to save lives is being missed.

25 Oct 2016

New report puts forward recommendations aimed at speeding up access to innovative dementia medicines

A new report published by the government today (24 October), puts forward a number of recommendations aimed at speeding up the process by which the NHS implements newly developed drugs and medical procedures.

25 Oct 2016

New initiative aims to prevent opioid addition among surgical patients in Michigan

America's opioid drug epidemic has struck hard in Michigan. But now, a team from the University of Michigan is striking back at a key factor: opioid prescriptions for patients before and after surgery.

25 Oct 2016

Rabies vaccine stored at warmer temperatures can protect against disease, WSU research shows

A Washington State University-led research team determined rabies vaccines stored at warmer temperatures still protect against the disease in dogs.

24 Oct 2016

New disgnostic tool could help doctors make more informed prescriptions

Students from the University of Sheffield are building a device capable of quickly diagnosing bacterial infections, which could help doctors improve the way they prescribe treatment for patients.

24 Oct 2016

Combination of two drugs could be effective strategy to target T-cell lymphocytic leukemia

Researchers have determined that two Phase 1 drugs (CX-4945 and JQ1) can work together to efficiently kill T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells while having minimal impact on normal blood cells.

24 Oct 2016

Fission yeast could help discover novel cancer drugs

Cancer is a notoriously difficult disease to treat. Not only do a wide variety of cancers exist, requiring specialized treatments for each type, but cancer cells within an individual can morph and render previously potent therapeutics ineffective.

24 Oct 2016

Many back pain patients taking opioids get limited relief and worry about side effects, study finds

Millions of people take opioids for chronic back pain, but many of them get limited relief while experiencing side effects and worrying about the stigma associated with taking them, suggests research presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016 annual meeting.

24 Oct 2016

Novel lipid-based therapeutic shows promise for combating drug resistance in AML

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center have discovered a mechanism that confers resistance to drugs used to treat certain types of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

24 Oct 2016

RIT faculty-researcher receives grant to help design coordinated vaccine procurement system

Rochester Institute of Technology received a three-year, $374,949 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for faculty-researcher Rubén Proaño to study and help design a coordinated decision-support system for the global procurement of vaccines.

21 Oct 2016

MIT researchers develop imaging technique that provides unprecedented view of serotonin dynamics

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that's partly responsible for feelings of happiness and for mood regulation in humans.

21 Oct 2016

Antimicrobial copper touch surfaces may help fight global threat of antibiotic resistance

A key presentation at the Infection Control show within the Patient First conference on 22 November will look at a simple engineering solution to help fight the global threat of antibiotic resistance: antimicrobial copper touch surfaces.

21 Oct 2016

Two leading non-profit organizations sign strategic affiliation to hasten drug development

The Scripps Research Institute and the California Institute for Biomedical Research - two leading non-profit research organizations - today announced the signing of a strategic affiliation that combines the two organizations into a new biomedical research entity with the tools and know-how to rapidly translate its scientific discoveries into life-saving medicines for the public benefit.

20 Oct 2016

Scientists modify structure of cancer drug to enhance ability to pass through blood-brain barrier

In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood-brain barrier.

20 Oct 2016

Pharmaceutical News

Celebrity chef Tonia Buxton gets optimal levels of vitamin D with BetterYou’s oral spray

MTPConnect to provide $7.4 million funding for 14 national projects in medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector

GAFFI: Access to rapid diagnostics, antifungals could prevent over a million AIDS-related deaths by 2020

New report puts forward recommendations aimed at speeding up access to innovative dementia medicines

New initiative aims to prevent opioid addition among surgical patients in Michigan

Rabies vaccine stored at warmer temperatures can protect against disease, WSU research shows

New disgnostic tool could help doctors make more informed prescriptions

Combination of two drugs could be effective strategy to target T-cell lymphocytic leukemia

Fission yeast could help discover novel cancer drugs

Many back pain patients taking opioids get limited relief and worry about side effects, study finds

Novel lipid-based therapeutic shows promise for combating drug resistance in AML

RIT faculty-researcher receives grant to help design coordinated vaccine procurement system

MIT researchers develop imaging technique that provides unprecedented view of serotonin dynamics

Antimicrobial copper touch surfaces may help fight global threat of antibiotic resistance

Two leading non-profit organizations sign strategic affiliation to hasten drug development

Scientists modify structure of cancer drug to enhance ability to pass through blood-brain barrier

New study raises serious safety concerns in clinical use of caspase inhibitors for liver injury

TUM scientists uncover novel mechanisms of action for skin disease medication

Novel Alzheimer's treatment uses microscopic droplets of fat to carry drugs into the brain

Compound bearing hidden chirality can trigger autocatalytic preparation of chiral organic intermediates

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