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FDA Approves Drug for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer

FDA Approves Drug for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer

   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the injectable drug degarelix, the first new drug in several years for prostate cancer.

Posted : Mon, Dec 29, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Yale Team To Study How Pregnant Mothers' Cocaine Use Affects Interactions with Infants

Yale Team To Study How Pregnant Mothers' Cocaine Use Affects Interactions with Infants

   Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.

Posted : Fri, Nov 21, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Philips' intelligent pill targets drug development and treatment for digestive tract diseases

Philips' intelligent pill targets drug development and treatment for digestive tract diseases

   Philips Research's intelligent pill (iPill) for electronically controlled drug delivery

Posted : Wed, Nov 12, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

FDA Approves Orphan Drug Status for Revolutionary Cancer Drug for Children

FDA Approves Orphan Drug Status for Revolutionary Cancer Drug for Children

   The Cure Our Children Foundation, a nonprofit charitable foundation dedicated to children, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Orphan Drug Designation of the foundation's unique drug product for children with Ewing's Sarcoma cancer.

Posted : Tue, Oct 21, 2008

Category : Technology / Industry News

Study confirms benefit of combination therapy for Alzheimers disease

Study confirms benefit of combination therapy for Alzheimers disease

   First long-term study finds that treatment slows symptom progression, benefits last for years

Posted : Mon, Sep 22, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

AT&T and Citi Launch New Credit Card for Small Business Owners

AT&T and Citi Launch New Credit Card for Small Business Owners

   Customers Earn Rewards for Spending on AT&T Communications Services, Small Business Products, Supplies and Professional Services

Posted : Tue, Jun 10, 2008

Category : World-Business / Business-Finance News

FDA Announces New Labeling Changes for Regranex

FDA Announces New Labeling Changes for Regranex

   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the addition of a boxed warning to the label of Regranex Gel 0.01% (becaplermin) to address the increased risk of cancer mortality in patients who use 3 or more tubes of the product.

Posted : Mon, Jun 09, 2008

Category : World-Business / Offbeat-News News

FDA Obtains Permanent Injunction Against Scientific Laboratories, Inc.

FDA Obtains Permanent Injunction Against Scientific Laboratories, Inc.

   Company manufactures and distributes unapproved and adulterated drugs

Posted : Sat, May 17, 2008

Category : World-Business / Offbeat-News News

U-Md. Researchers Report Advance in Biological Microfactories for Drug Research

U-Md. Researchers Report Advance in Biological Microfactories for Drug Research

   A cross-disciplinary research team at the University of Maryland has shown for the first time that their microscopic drug research platform can produce the chemical reactions needed to test potential drugs.

Posted : Mon, Apr 07, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

FDA Makes Recommendations on Medical Devices That Treat Blocked Heart Arteries

FDA Makes Recommendations on Medical Devices That Treat Blocked Heart Arteries

   The draft guidelines issued today-called an FDA guidance document-outline the agency's recommendations for pre-market clinical evaluation and post-market studies.

Posted : Thu, Mar 27, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Drugs, Doctors and Death: Heath Ledger Becomes Another Victim

Drugs, Doctors and Death: Heath Ledger Becomes Another Victim

   Throughout the past decade, Florida Detox(TM) has successfully treated over 5,000 addicted patients.

Posted : Sat, Feb 23, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Egenix Licenses Harvard Anti-Cancer Platform

Egenix Licenses Harvard Anti-Cancer Platform

   Mr. Donald Fresne, Chairman and CEO of Egenix, Inc., announced today that the company has recently obtained from Harvard University a field-exclusive license under patent rights that cover certain technologies related to cancer therapy and prognostic testing.

Posted : Fri, Feb 01, 2008

Category : Science / Environment News

HEATH LEDGER - The 'now' he lived in ended

HEATH LEDGER - The 'now' he lived in ended

   Although he was having a great deal of fun, the 28-year-old actor walked away and he'll never again come back. It was him who really adored life that had to leave it in way that yet remains unclear.

Posted : Tue, Jan 29, 2008

Category : Entertainment / Celebrity News

Marijuana Withdrawal As Bad As Withdrawal From Cigarettes

Marijuana Withdrawal As Bad As Withdrawal From Cigarettes

   Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana use suggests that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is experienced by people when they quit smoking cigarettes.

Posted : Sun, Jan 27, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Genetic Makeup May Affect Blood Pressure Medications

Genetic Makeup May Affect Blood Pressure Medications

   Genetic makeup may impact the effectiveness of medications for high blood pressure, which could help explain why certain drugs work for some people and not for others.

Posted : Thu, Jan 24, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

More Than 10 Percent of Adults Abuse or Become Dependent on Drugs During Their Lifetime

More Than 10 Percent of Adults Abuse or Become Dependent on Drugs During Their Lifetime

   Approximately 10.3 percent of U.S. adults appear to have problems with drug use or abuse during their lives, including 2.6 percent who become drug dependent at some point, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Posted : Mon, May 07, 2007

Category : Science / Health News

Mike Tyson arrested for drugs and drink-driving

Mike Tyson arrested for drugs and drink-driving

   Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was arrested early Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine and drink-driving a after nearly crashing into a police car as he left Scottsdale nightclub, Arizona police said.

Posted : Fri, Dec 29, 2006

Category : Entertainment / Celebrity News

Drugs for alcoholics

Drugs for alcoholics

   A team from Melboourne's Howard Florey Institute discovered that alcoholic's craving for drink can be prevented by blocking the action of the brain's orexin system.

Posted : Mon, Dec 25, 2006

Category : Science / Health News
 
 
 
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