Archive for the ‘Clinical Trials / Drug Trials’ Category
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
A potential treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), developed by University of Greenwich in association with Kings College, London, has begun clinical trials. The life sciences company BTG plc, which has licensed the research, is running the trials on a new compound, known as BGC20-0134.Dr Laurence Harbige and Dr Mike Leach, ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
The Food Standards Agency announced its decision to recommend to Ministers the phasing out of six colours in food and drink in the EU. These six colours - sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124) - had been shown to ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Patients with heart failure are at increased risk of death if they are hospitalized for worsening heart failure symptoms, according to new research from UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham). The findings, published this month in the Journal of Cardiac Failure, suggest that a new emphasis on avoiding the need ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Sonoenteroclysis, a new sonographic method in evaluating and diagnosing small bowel disorders is an effective alternative to the usual method of barium enteroclysis, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. Sonoenteroclysis is a new way of doing ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Multidetector CT angiography can accurately predict the presence of obstructive disease (stenosis) in small and moderate-sized calcified coronary artery plaque (CAP), and is even fairly accurate in diagnosing large and heavily calcified CAP, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.The study ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Extremely low dose CT coronary angiography can be used to measure cardiac function and has the potential for use when other commonly used examinations are limited, a preliminary study indicates."CT coronary angiography provides a wealth of data about cardiac structure and function; however, CT coronary angiography uses a high radiation ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Further to the press release published on 9 April, Arpida Ltd. (SWX: ARPN) elaborates on some additional elements of the clinical programme with intravenous iclaprim in complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections (cSSSI). Extensive data on ASSIST-1 has been presented at last year's ICAAC and IDSA meetings. Data on ASSIST-2 ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
E2007 (perampanel) is a first-in-class, orally administered, highly selective non-competitive AMPA-type glutamate receptor antagonist, in development by Eisai for several indications, including Parkinson's disease, neuropathic pain, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and migraine prophylaxis. The AMPA receptor is widely present in almost all excitatory neuronal ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
It is "imperative to prioritize the identification and implementation of more effective behavioral and nonvaccine biomedical interventions" to prevent HIV, as well as to "design, fund and conduct these trials in ways that give them the best chance of success," Stephen Lagakos, professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A symposium at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting at Experimental Biology was held in which noted scientists discussed new infant feeding studies that used methodology such as randomized clinical trials (involving breastfeeding promotion) as well as sibling pairs analysis. These studies may offer new insights into possible associations ...
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