When it comes to finding drugs for diseases of the developing world, the most expensive work is about to begin.
Charitable groups, academics and a few drugmakers have made some progress on experimental medicines and vaccines to fight tuberculosis, malaria and Dengue fever. But taking the drugs beyond early tests is going to require a whole lot of money.
Paul Herrling, head of Novartis’s research into diseases of the developing world, told Read the rest of this entry »
, which focuses on predictive disease simulation for pharmaceutical, health-care and consumer products applications, has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help assess cardiovascular safety and efficacy of a set of drugs.
Foster City-based Entelos did not disclose terms of the deal or the specific set of drugs involved.
“Although the modern controlled clinical trial is still the international gold standard Read the rest of this entry »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.
Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also make these drugs nearly impossible to handle safely as waste, say Read the rest of this entry »
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Intoxicated boy, 13, spurs police probe
NIAGARA FALLS — Police are probing a Saturday afternoon incident in which a 13-year-old came home heavily intoxicated.
The boy claimed to have been at a friend’s home on Grand Avenue, drinking brandy with three other teens. He said the alcohol was supplied by an unnamed source. Police said an adult was present at the home but was reportedly unaware of the drinking going on in the basement Read the rest of this entry »
EATING junk food during pregnancy could have a bigger impact on
childhood obesity, liver disease and diabetes than whether a mother
is overweight, according to a study conducted on monkeys.
A high-fat diet of potato chips, peanut butter and chocolate in
pregnant monkeys produced foetuses with fatty-liver disease, a
potential precursor to diabetes. And their babies were obese by six
months old, according to research from the University of Colorado
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Monday, December 8th 2008, 9:38 PM
Sedated and hooked up to a respirator, “Sopranos” actor
still was able to confess to a burglary that led to the fatal shooting of a cop, a detective testified Monday.
Detective Claude O’Shea said Brancato, who was also shot during the gun battle, was coherent and stable at
when cops questioned him shortly after the Dec. 10, 2005, showdown.
home.
“He shook his head yes,” O’Shea said after testifying Read the rest of this entry »
THIS piece has given me a lot of trouble because, of course, if worse came to worse, I’d give up everything.
But in the spirit of heavy denial that runs parallel with the holidays, I’ll pretend the worst worst will never happen: I won’t lose my home, my job, my kids’ health and health insurance, my health and my health insurance, and my parents won’t need long-term care.
Still, I am indeed conflicted and feel funny Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe folks have become too broke to overeat. How else to explain the manner in which the economic recession apparently caught up with the business at
. The diet center’s shares tumbled to a new low in Friday’s trading, falling below $21 a share, off 6% on the day, following some critical comments about the business from Barclays.
The firm’s argument: it expected attendance to fall by a wider measure than previously anticipated Read the rest of this entry »
Partners officials and industry allies say Partners should not be blamed for medical inflation, a national problem. And they say that their rise to power gave Massachusetts a needed counterforce to insurance companies that underpaid hospitals and doctors through much of the 1990s.
Previous Spotlight Team articles examining Partners, the parent of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, looked at how the healthcare system Read the rest of this entry »