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Aspirin Prescription Algorithm Gu...
Newly-developed prescription algorithm gives doctors...
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Three Quarters of Pharmacies Give P...
According to a new study, up to three quarters of pharmacies give poor medi...
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Opioid Drugs Linked to Erectile Dys...
Men who take high-dose opioid drugs for four months or more are 50 per cent...
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Magic Bullet Nanomedicine for Acute...
Scientists at Queen's University in Belfast have created a nanomedicine, na...
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Rotavac Vaccine Offers Low-Cost Rot...
Rotavac vaccine emerges from highly positive clinical trials with the poten...
Read More....Historic Fine For Generic Drugmaker Ranbaxy
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 14/05/2013 - 08:00:00
Set higher than any fine previously given to a generic drug production firm, India's leading drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy, is ordered to pay a historic $500m
Read more....GSK and Save The Children in African Drugs Tie-Up
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 10/05/2013 - 09:15:00
GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a new initiative aimed at saving one million Sub-Saharan African children's lives via low-cost drug supply programmes
Read more....Spider Venom Protection Vaccine Breakthrough
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 09/05/2013 - 10:10:00
Thousands of venomous spider bites occur each year and that's just in Brazil. Now, for the first time, a viable anti-venom vaccine is on the horizon
Read more....Statin Drugs May Improve Kidney Cancer Survival
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 08/05/2013 - 09:20:00
Designed to drive down cholesterol levels, statin drugs have now been linked to increased survival among renal cell carcinoma kidney cancer patients
Read more....Antibiotics Could Eliminate Back Pain For Ever
Posted by Victoria Knowles - Pharmaceutical International Reporter on 08/05/2013 - 06:30:00
Experts have found that antibiotics could prove a much cheaper and easier cure for chronic back pain than major surgery.
Read more....FDA's Pregnant Women Migraine Drug Use Warning
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 07/05/2013 - 07:00:00
US Food and Drug Administration tells pregnant women who experience migraines not to take valproate drugs, since their children's IQ scores might be damaged as a result
Read more....Antidepressant In Meningitis Drug Trial
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 02/05/2013 - 10:10:00
Long-established as an antidepressant and now off-patent, sertraline is getting a new lease of life as a potential meningitis treatment drug in Uganda
Read more....Inflated Cancer Drug Prices Putting Patients at Risk
Posted by Victoria Knowles - Pharmaceutical International Reporter on 01/05/2013 - 10:20:00
Experts have warned that the price of drugs charged by pharmaceutical companies are threatening patients lives. The industry is being accused of profiteering.
Read more....CD-3 Leads Counterfeit Malaria Drugs Detection Drive
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 25/04/2013 - 07:35:00
The US Food and Drug Administration has partnered-up with other organisations to try and identify the world's counterfeit malaria drugs supplies
Read more....Nanomal: Rapid Malaria Diagnosis And Drug Prescription
Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 25/04/2013 - 03:30:00
Currently in development and soon set to be trialled, the Nanomal device offers rapid malarial diagnoses and indicates the best drugs to prescribe thereafter
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