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Oncology Treatment Adherence: Understanding the Patient Perspective

Oncology Treatment Adherence: Understanding the Patient Perspective

It would be easy to assume that an oral treatment that can halt the progression of a rare form of leukaemia would have high rates of adherence.

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Hepatitis C virus hijacks liver microRNA

Hepatitis C virus hijacks liver microRNA

A new study has discovered how hepatitis C virus survives in the liver – helping medical scientists understand why a new antiviral drug appears to be effective against the virus.

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Eating disorders harm women's fertility

Eating disorders harm women's fertility

Eating disorders affect approximately seven million American women each year and tend to peak during childbearing years.

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Ovarian cancer study proves drug delays disease progression

Ovarian cancer study proves drug delays disease progression

Drs. Amit Oza of the Princess Margaret Cancer Program, University Health Network and Timothy Perren, St James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds, UK, show the results of an international clinical trial, Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (... Read more...

Benefits of statin therapy may extend beyond lowering lipids

Benefits of statin therapy may extend beyond lowering lipids

People with high cholesterol are at risk of heart attack and stroke because atherosclerotic plaques within their arteries can rupture triggering the formation ...

Treating Cancer with Light

Treating Cancer with Light

New LED Device May Help Advance Photodynamic Therapy for Skin Cancer. Scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), believe so. They're explo...

Exploring Opportunities in Chemical Biology

Interview with: Torsten Hoffmann, Head Discovery Chemistry, F. Hoffmann – La Roche
Drug discovery scientists need to broaden their approaches to pharmaceutical...

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News

Some 'healthy' vegetable oils may actually increase risk of heart

Some vegetable oils that claim to be healthy may actually increase the risk of heart disease, and Health Canada should reconsider cholesterol-lowering claims on food labelling, states an analysis in

Wednesday, 13 November 2013 Comments

Press Releases

Eureka Science proudly announces the collaboration with international societies & organizations for their events "6th International Conference on Drug Discovery" and "Therapy and 3rd Biotechnology World

Eureka Science proudly announces the collaboration with international societies and organizations for the events; the “6th International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy” and the “3rd Biotechnology World Congress” to

Tuesday, 19 November 2013 Comments

Research Insight

IMI Builds Collaborations to Monitor Vaccine Safety and Drug

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is calling experts to join forces and tackle two challenges which are of major importance to public

Friday, 20 July 2012 Comments

Techno Trends

LabCorp Announces Availability of Newly Approved Viral Load Assay for Hepatitis C

Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings today announced that it is offering the COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HCV Test v2.0. With enhanced sensitivity this quantitative viral load assay for Hepatitis C virus

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Comments

Industry Reports

Medtech companies prepare for an innovation

A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers For decades, the medtech industry was on the forefront of innovation, but now return on innovation investment is declining. Growth through technology innovation has slowed substantially and

Sunday, 10 November 2013 Comments

Articles

Oncology Treatment Adherence: Understanding the Patient

It would be easy to assume that an oral treatment that can halt the progression of a rare form of leukaemia would have high rates of adherence.

Tuesday, 14 August 2012 Comments

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Drug Research

Mission Pharmacal introduces new oral spray for dry

US-based pharmaceutical firm Mission Pharmacal has launched a new safe and effective protective oral spray called Aquoral that moistens and lubricates the mouth for up to four

Monday, 28 October 2013 Comments

Production & Manufacturing

PharmaCell signs deal to produce Dendreon' Provenge in

Netherlands-based PharmaCell has entered into an agreement with Dendreon to be the contract manufacturing organization (CMO) for the European commercial production of its recently approved cellular immunotherapy product Provenge dispersion

Friday, 25 October 2013 Comments

Packaging & Labelling

Canada unveils new labeling initiative to enhance drug

Canada has rolled out the plain language labeling initiative to improve the safe use of medicines by making drug labels and safety information easier to read and understand for all

Monday, 17 June 2013 Comments

Strategy

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals and Bayer HealthCare Expand Cancer Stem Cell Collaboration with Clinical Manufacturing

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company developing novel therapeutics targeting cancer stem cells, today announced it has expanded its collaboration with Bayer HealthCare. Bayer’s U.S. affiliate will manufacture clinical supplies of

Saturday, 21 July 2012 Comments

Clinical Trials

Oramed recruits patients to study orally ingestible insulin

Oramed Pharmaceuticals has started recruiting patients for a new clinical trial of ORMD-0801, an orally ingestible insulin capsule, for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in

Thursday, 22 August 2013 Comments

IT & Data Management

Pharma Security Group introduces new medication reminder

Pharma Security Group (PSG) has introduced a new medication reminder service, myPharmaCall, designed for users to set up daily phone call reminders for their

Thursday, 22 August 2013 Comments

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