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Hundreds Of Millions Of Vulnerable Indian Citizens Lack Free Access To Essential Generic Medicines, Policies Risk Undermining New Medicines Research
Date: Jul-17-2013Modern India has the third largest national economy in the world in purchasing power adjusted terms. The country is also now the world's largest generic medicines exporter. But 400�600 million Indian citizens live in severe poverty. Many still lack assured free access to good quality generic medicines and the support needed to use them to best effect. Unmet need is particularly high in the context of preventing and treating the growing burden of heart problems, strokes and other non�communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, finds a new UCL School of Pharmacy report...
Three Peer-Reviewed Papers By ISA Pharmaceuticals Introduce Strategies To Improve Immunotherapy Against Cancer
Date: Jul-17-2013ISA Pharmaceuticals B.V., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focusing on rationally designed therapeutic vaccines against cancer and persistent viral infections, today announced the publication of three peer-reviewed papers that demonstrate the benefit of local delivery of a checkpoint control antibody targeting CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4) for the successful eradication of cancer and the reduction of side effects. The papers include a review that underlines the importance of strategies for combinatorial treatments to improve further the immunotherapy of cancer...
New Report Shows That A Healthier Africa Will Further Boost Economic Growth On The Continent
Date: Jul-17-2013A report launched at the Special Summit of the African Union on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria highlights increased, targeted health spending as an essential foundation to greater economic growth and development in Africa...
A New Conversation Guide To Help Physicians Talk To Their Patients About End-Of-Life Care And Dying
Date: Jul-17-2013With an aging population and people living longer with chronic illness, it is increasingly important for patients and family members to decide how they and their loved ones would like to spend their final days. And for physicians in both hospital and primary care settings, it is crucial that they know how to address this issue with sensitivity. A new "conversation guide" in Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) aims to guide physicians through these sensitive discussions with patients in hospital and their family members...
Phase I Clinical Trial Launched For AZP-531, An Unacylated Ghrelin Analog, In Type 2 Diabetes
Date: Jul-17-2013Alize Pharma, a company specialized in the development of drugs for the treatment of metabolic diseases and rare diseases, announces today the launch of the first Phase I clinical trial for AZP-531, its unacylated ghrelin analog, in type 2 diabetes. The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the body that regulates drugs and healthcare products in the UK, has authorized this trial that will be conducted as a combined Phase Ia and Phase Ib protocol. The clinical trial is set to last approximately 18 months...
New Warning Against Leaving Infants Asleep In Car Seats
Date: Jul-17-2013Researchers in New Zealand recently tested a car safety seat insert designed to reduce the risk of young babies suffocating. While it showed some benefit, the researchers caution that it is still important for parents never to leave young infants asleep in their car seat. Professor Alistair Gunn and colleagues from the Department of Physiology at the University of Auckland wrote a paper published online in Pediatrics this week...
ACS NSQIP Hospitals Have Consistently Better Surgical Outcomes Than Non-ACS NSQIP Hospitals
Date: Jul-17-2013A new study evaluating surgical outcomes at California hospitals enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) found surgical patients at ACS NSQIP hospitals had significantly reduced mortality rates compared with non-ACS NSQIP hospitals. These findings were presented at the ACS NSQIP National Conference in San Diego, Calif. Researchers analyzed data from 1,184,895 patients at 227 hospitals from 1995 to 2009 to identify whether surgical outcomes improved over time in ACS NSQIP hospitals compared with non-ACS NSQIP hospitals...
Pediatricians Encouraged To Treat The Cause, Not The Symptoms, In Children With Cerebral Palsy
Date: Jul-17-2013Researchers at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital have found that more than 25 percent of children with cerebral palsy seen by physicians have moderate to severe chronic pain, limiting their activity. Findings indicate that pediatricians should be aware of chronic pain in this group and try to identify and treat its underlying causes. The study, led by Dr. Darcy Fehlings, Physician Director of the Child Development Program at Holland Bloorview and Clinician Senior Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute, was published in top health journal Pediatrics...
Endocrine System Affected By Common Autism Supplement
Date: Jul-17-2013Plant-based diets are healthy. Plants are high in flavonoids. So flavonoids are healthy. At least that's the reasoning of many manufacturers of flavonoid-based nutritional supplements. But a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the journal Hormones & Cancer shows that may not be the case. Flavonoids tested in the study affected the endocrine system in ways that in one case promoted cancer and in another repressed it...
New Insights Into Cancer Cell Signaling
Date: Jul-17-2013A pair of studies by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences, sheds light on a biological process which is activated across a vast range of malignancies. Wnt proteins are a large family of proteins that active signaling pathways (a set of biological reactions in a cell) to control several vital steps in embryonic development. In adults, Wnt-mediated functions are frequently altered in many types of cancers and, specifically, within cell subpopulations that possess stem cell-like properties...
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