Category: Pharmaceuticals
Experts support call for lower cancer drug prices
A group of 118 leading cancer experts have developed a list of proposals designed to reduce the cost of cancer drugs, and support a grassroots patient protest movement to pressure drug companies to charge what they deem a fair value […]
Clot-busting stroke drug safe, says expert review
A panel of independent experts has decided that a clot-busting drug often used to treat strokes is “safe and effective”. The UK medicines watchdog wanted the benefits and risks of alteplase to be analysed after concerns were raised about its […]
Parkinson’s: Diabetes drug may offer clue to treatment
A type of diabetes drug may offer a glimmer of hope in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, research in the journal Plos Medicine suggests. Scientists found people taking glitazone pills were less likely to develop Parkinson’s than patients on other […]
Early signs that drug ‘may delay Alzheimer’s decline’
The first details of how a drug could slow the pace of brain decline for patients with early stage Alzheimer’s disease have emerged. Data from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly suggests its solanezumab drug can cut the rate of the dementia’s […]
Novavax’s Ebola vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial
Novavax Inc said its experimental Ebola vaccine induced a substantial immune response to the deadly infection in an early-stage trial involving 230 healthy adults. The Ebola GP Vaccine was well tolerated and elicited very high Ebola antibody responses at all […]
Researchers get a step closer to universal flu vaccine
A new study leads the way toward a potential vaccine that could provide protection against numerous strains of influenza, including ones that could cause future pandemics. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) used a virus-like […]
Singapore develops new cancer drug
SINGAPORE- Scientists in Singapore have developed a new cancer drug, according to a press release by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Duke- National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) on Thursday. The drug, ETC-159, is […]
Lilly cancer drug improves survival, raises blood clot risk: FDA
Eli Lilly & Co.’s experimental lung cancer drug necitumumab improved overall survival by an average of 1.6 months but also increased the risk of sometimes fatal blood clots, according to a preliminary review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. […]
Implanted drug improves tolerance of sunlight in rare condition
A skin-darkening drug can help protect against serious pain in people with a rare inherited condition that makes them flee sunlight like movie vampires, according to tests in Europe and the U.S. The condition, known as erythropoieticprotoporphyria, causes severe burning […]
New anti-malaria drug developed at Dundee University
Researchers at Dundee University have discovered a new compound which could treat malaria while protecting people from the disease and preventing its spread, all in a single dose. The compound, DDD107498, was developed by the university’s Drug Discovery Unit and […]
