Study: Cancer-cell mopping implant could stop disease in its tracks
15 September 2015
Researchers have long searched for ways to track cancer cells as they proliferate and stop them from spreading. Now, scientists in the U.S. are developing a spongelike device that can mop up cancer cells as they move through the body, potentially offering an early warning sign to doctors.
NIH awards nearly $35 million to research natural products
15 September 2015
Five research centers will focus on the safety of natural products, on how they work within the body, and on the development of cutting-edge research technologies. The centers, jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), include three Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Centers and two Centers for Advancing Natural Products Innovation and Technology. Natural products include a wide variety of substances produced by plants, bacteria, fungi, and animals that have historically been used in traditional medicine and other complementary and integrative health practices.
Reviews Show Research, Growth Fueled by EU Biomedical Initiatives
15 September 2015
An analysis of journal papers published by participants in Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) shows the €3.3 billion (US$3.6 billion) public/private partnership is now turning out high volumes of high-quality research.
Atlas Genetics Ltd: Grant of Key US Patent
14 September 2015
Atlas Genetics Ltd ("Atlas Genetics" or the "Company"), the ultra-rapid 'test and treat' molecular diagnostics company, today announces the granting of a key patent in its intellectual property portfolio.
Pharmas want Japan to maintain its price stability scheme
14 September 2015
Domestic and multinational pharmaceutical companies want Japan to maintain a scheme that adds price premiums to certain drugs, which makes it easier for drug companies to recoup research and development costs. The program, supported by the National Health Insurance (NHI), is coming under scrutiny as the government looks for ways to cut ballooning health care costs.
Rivaling some BRIC countries, Middle East-North Africa region is a growing market
14 September 2015
MENA – the Middle East and North Africa. As a region, it's got everything a drugmaker could want. An expanding and aging population. Unmet medical need. A growing middle class. The desire and the ability to pay for branded and generic therapies.
FT counts 39 plants banned in India as regulatory woes mount for drugmakers
14 September 2015
A hard drumbeat of U.S. FDA complaints against more than two dozen companies in India for quality violations has affected 39 drugmaking facilities, creating an avalanche of remedial work that could take years and is steadily driving up medicine costs in the United States.
Briggs Morrison, CEO, Syndax Pharmaceuticals To Open ACRES Inaugural SYNERGY Event
11 September 2015
Dr. Briggs Morrison, one of the world’s leading figures in drug development and immediate past Chairman of the Board of TransCelerate, an industry organization charged with improving the clinical trials process, will deliver the opening keynote address launching the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) inaugural SYNERGY event to be held in Boston, October 1-2, 2015.
New blood test helps detect cancer early
11 September 2015
A blood test that was scarcely heard of two years ago is quickly emerging as an alternative to the often painful practice of using needles or surgery to sample a patient’s tissues for signs of cancer. Scientists from San Diego to Boston said the new “liquid biopsies” can easily detect potentially harmful tumor cells and mutated DNA traveling through the blood stream.
The Ministry of Health reported a reduction in mortality of able-bodied population of Russia
11 September 2015
The mortality rate of the working population of Russia for the first half of 2015 decreased by 2.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to Medportal, citing data from the Ministry of Health.
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