Archive for the ‘Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry’ Category
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Physicians' choice of prescriptions are often influenced by patients, with patient experience with specific drugs playing a strong role, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). The results have important ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
The Coalition for a Competitive Pharmaceutical Market has been gathering signatures for a so-called "mega-letter" in support of legislation that would allow FDA to approve follow-on biologics, CongressDaily reports. The coalition includes AARP, the AFL-CIO, Blue Cross Blue Shield and General Motors. A draft letter states, "We believe that any ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Biotechnology's contributions to a cleaner, more sustainable world will be highlighted during the 2008 BIO International Convention. Hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the global event for biotechnology will take place June 17-20, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Scientists in the US have developed a drug that protected laboratory mice and monkeys from radiation damage and may one day be used to protect people from the side effects of radiation used in medical procedures such as cancer treatments, and even the effects of nuclear weapons.A study describing the ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
ASHP stressed the critical need to boost funding for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) so that the agency can thoroughly monitor the safety of medications during a series of meetings on Wednesday. ASHP joined fellow members of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA for its Advocacy Day on ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, a leader in the development of small molecule anti-infective drugs, announced the presentation of their breakthrough research program to evaluate a new macrolide-related drug class, Bicyclolides, in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), and other gram-positive infection pathogens. Enanta's Bicyclolides have also demonstrated ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Developed in close cooperation between Transinsight, Dresden, and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, the knowledge-based semantic search engine http://www.Go3R.org is now available online. It enables information transparency for the prevention of animal testing. In only four months development time, Transinsight from Dresden, Germany, succeeded in making available ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a one-day workshop on Friday, April 18, at ASA headquarters here for clinical trial statisticians who wish to analyze their data with the best available methods. The course will review some of the key developments in the analysis of censored event time data ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Harvest Technologies Corp. announced the publication of results from a study designed to document the biologic potential of cellular compositions derived from its Harvest BMAC System. The study appears in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Cell Transplantation (Heeschen et al, Vol. 16, pp 1059-1069), under the title, "Concentration of ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Carbon nanotubes are 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, yet stronger than steel and more durable than diamonds. They conduct heat and electricity with efficiency that rivals copper wires and silicon chips, with possible uses in everything from concrete and clothes to bicycle parts and electronics. The have been ...
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