Wednesday, November 6, 2013

New drug candidate found for deadly fungal lung infections

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Rappleye's team searched a library of commercially-available small molecules used by other investigators to find new antivirals or ant...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Metformin could serve as radiosensitizer to treat patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer

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In continuation of my update on metformin Treating aggressive lung cancer with the diabetes drug metformin along with radiation and c...

Two forms of Parkinson's disease identified

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A consortium of researchers, headed by a team from the Laboratoire CNRS d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, is well on the way to...
Friday, November 1, 2013

New Drug May Someday Battle Obesity and Diabetes - Drugs.com MedNews

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New Drug May Someday Battle Obesity and Diabetes - Drugs.com MedNews

New Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, ALN-PCS Shows Early Promise

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An experimental drug that lowers LDL "bad" cholesterol by helping sweep it from the bloodstream appears to be both safe and effe...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Popular Morning Sickness Drug Safe in Pregnancy, Study Finds

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Metoclopramide  ( INN )     is an  antiemetic  and  gastroprokinetic agent . It belongs to a group of medicines called ´dopaminergic´ bloc...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Overexpressed protein to be culprit in certain thyroid cancers

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A specific protein once thought to exist only in the brain may play a crucial role in a deadly form of thyroid cancer, as well as other ca...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

'Peanut butter' test can help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, researchers find

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A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler can be used to confirm a diagnosis of early stage Alzheimer's disease, University of Florida Hea...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Flumazenil reverses stress-triggered anxiety in methamphetamine dependant rats

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We know that,  Flumazenil   (also known as   flumazepil , code name   Ro 15-1788 , trade names   Anexate ,   Lanexat ,   Mazicon ,   Romaz...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Scientists identify new drug for inherited form of cancer with no known cure

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Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a new drug candidate for an inherited form of ...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Lundbeck, Otsuka to continue development of Lu AE58054 compound for Alzheimer's disease

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We know that,  Lu AE58054  is a  potent  and  selective   5-HT 6  receptor   antagonist  under development by  Lundbeck  as an  augmentati...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Pfizer reports positive results from two tofacitinib Phase 3 trials for chronic plaque psoriasis

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In continuation of my update on  Tofacitinib We know that,  Tofacitinib  (trade name  Xeljanz , formerly  tasocitinib ,  CP-690550 ) ...
Monday, October 21, 2013

FDA Approves Adempas to Treat Pulmonary Hypertension

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In continuation of my update on  Adempas  (riociguat).... Food and Drug Administration today approved  Adempas  (riociguat) to treat adu...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Psoriasis Drug May Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes: Report - Drugs.com MedNews

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In continuation of my update on  alefacept (Amevive) A drug formerly used to treat the skin condition psoriasis shows promise in trea...

Adempas drug gets FDA approval for treatment of pulmonary hypertension

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Adempas ( riociguat ) to treat adults with two forms of pulmonary hypertension. Pulmo...