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Orexigen Diet Pill to wait more for FDA’s Decision
Shares of Orexigen Therapeutics tumbled more than 16% in morning trading Wednesday after regulators extended by three months a review of its experimental weight loss drug treatment. The Food and Drug Administration is now expected to make a decision on Contrave,...
Allergens Exposure in Children May Result in Lower Allergy, Asthma Risk
Infants exposed to rodent and pet dander, roach allergens and a wide variety of household bacteria in the first year of life appear less likely to suffer from allergies, wheezing and asthma, according to results of a study conducted by scientists...
Researchers Discover New Breast Cancer Targets
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found new targets for potential intervention in breast cancer. These hormone cancer studies new targets could eventually increase effectiveness and reduce the undesirable side effects associated with current treatments....
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana ’s negative health effects
Comprehensive review published in the New England Journal of Medicine also discusses why marijuana health risks are greatest for teen users. The current state of science on the adverse health effects of marijuana use links the drug to several significant adverse...
One goal,One dream: The Mission of a DNA-powered Lab-on-a-chip
Imperial College London Professor Christofer Toumazou with his Genealysis chip, which can analyze DNA within 30 minutes and without a laboratory. The chip is powered by a mechanism that uses biology input from DNA to run analysis. The patented mechanism is...
Clinical Trials Markedly Improved Public Perception
inVentiv Clinical Trial Recruitment Solutions (iCTRS), created to accelerate trials, in collaboration with The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) has released the results of research showing public perceptions of clinical trials has improved – good news...
Breast Cancer Patients Stay Fertile Through Drug
Doctors may have found a way to help young breast cancer patients avoid infertility caused by chemotherapy. Giving a drug to shut down the ovaries temporarily seems to boost the odds they will work after treatment ends, and it might even...
New Area of Cancer Research Revealed by Green Tea Study
Green tea and its extracts have been widely researched as potential treatments for cancer, as well as several other diseases. But scientists have struggled to explain how the green tea and its extracts may work to reduce the risk of cancer...
New Way Cancer Extends Discovered by Scientists
UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the...
Cancer cells get drug cocktail delivered by nanodaisies
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed daisy-shaped, nanoscale structures that are made predominantly of anti-cancer drugs and are capable of introducing a “cocktail” of multiple drugs into cancer cells. The researchers are all part the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina...
DNA Editing understanding as breakthrough advances
An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes ‘edit’ genes, paving the way for correcting genetic diseases in patients. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Münster and the Lithuanian Institute of Biotechnology...
Old Bones Stronger with Melatonin
Faleh Tamimi, a professor in McGill’s School of Dentistry, is the leader of a research team that has just discovered that melatonin supplements improve bone health, making bones stronger in elderly rats and therefore, potentially, in elderly humans too. “Old rats...