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Illumina board rejects sweetened Roche offer
• Drug News • Apr 02 12
Illumina Inc said on Monday that its board unanimously rejected Roche Holding’s increased offer to buy the genetic sequencing company for $51 per share,…
Antidepressants give drugmakers the blues
• Drug News • Mar 23 12
The development of a novel antidepressant ground to a halt this week when researchers found it did not make patients feel any better than…
Ibuprofen May KO Altitude Sickness
• Drug News • • Public Health • Mar 21 12
If you long for a “Rocky Mountain high” but not the headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting that sometimes accompany a climb, fear not.
…
Postop Opioids May Be Used over Longer Term
• Drug News • • Surgery • Mar 13 12
Opioid use after minor surgery significantly increased the likelihood of opioid use a year later among older, opioid-naive patients, Canadian investigators reported.
Patients who…
New Diet Drug Qnexa Promises 10% Weight Loss - At What Price?
• Drug News • • Weight Loss • Feb 29 12
This week’s big news is the potential arrival of Qnexa, the first new obesity drug to head for tentative FDA approval in 13 years.…
FDA’s new statin label warning about diabetes risk may have little effect
• Diabetes • • Drug News • Feb 29 12
In evaluating the new warning U.S. regulators are issuing on statin prescription labels, many physicians are likely to take the view that high cholesterol…
Clamor for obesity pill may test FDA limits
• Drug News • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Feb 29 12
U.S. drug regulators may have a hard time stopping millions of overweight Americans from taking a new obesity drug that many are likely to…
Reformulated Imatinib Eliminates Morphine Tolerance in Lab Studies
• Drug News • • Pain • Feb 20 12
By reformulating the common cancer drug imatinib (Gleevec®), researchers have eliminated morphine tolerance in rats – an important step toward improving the effectiveness of…
Drug lobby wants clearer FDA rules for diet pills
• Drug News • Jan 20 12
The pharmaceutical industry may stop investing in medicines to treat diseases like diabetes or obesity without more explicit guidelines from U.S. regulators, the chairman…
FDA sends user-fee recommendations to Congress
• Drug News • • Public Health • Jan 13 12
U.S. health regulators said on Friday they have submitted to Congress new recommendations for how manufacturers will help fund their review of new branded…
New Drug Screening Identifies Chemical Agents with Potent Anti-Cancer Activity
• Drug News • Jan 07 12
Drugs already approved for clinical use across a variety of therapeutic categories can be screened to identify effective agents for thyroid cancer according to…
FDA Warns of Changes in Infant Acetaminophen Dosage
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Jan 03 12
In an effort to reduce accidental overdoses that occur in infants given acetaminophen products, manufacturers have reduced the concentration of pain and fever reducing…
Experimental malaria vaccine shows early promise
• Drug News • Dec 21 11
British scientists have developed an experimental malaria vaccine that may have the potential to neutralize all strains of the most deadly species of malaria…
Europe’s crisis spells more pain for drugmakers
• Drug News • Nov 10 11
Drugmakers are counting the cost of the deepening euro zone crisis, with further austerity-driven price cuts expected in important European markets, including Italy and…
Computational Method Predicts New Uses for Existing Medicines
• Drug News • • Public Health • Aug 19 11
For the first time ever, scientists are using computers and genomic information to predict new uses for existing medicines.
A National Institutes of Health-funded…
Bayer starts selling quick-release aspirin
• Drug News • May 24 11
German drugmaker Bayer has released a souped-up version of Bayer aspirin that the company says relieves pain twice as fast as its namesake brand,…
New UTHealth Trial Aimed at Helping Pregnant Women Stop Smoking
• Drug News • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 04 11
A clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of a medication that could help pregnant women stop smoking has begun enrollment at The…
Research opens door to vaccines that can circumvent maternal antibodies
• Drug News • • Immunology • Mar 01 11
New research that reveals how maternal antibodies block an immune response to the measles virus is a first step toward improving current childhood vaccination…
GSK tests intravenous flu drug vs Roche’s Tamiflu
• Drug News • • Swine Flu • Jan 19 11
GlaxoSmithKline has started a pivotal study testing intravenous zanamivir against Roche’s best-selling pill Tamiflu as a treatment for patients hospitalised with influenza, it said…
Advisers recommend Human Genome lupus drug
• Drug News • • Rheumatic Diseases • Nov 17 10
The first new lupus treatment in half a century moved closer to U.S. approval on Tuesday as an advisory panel endorsed a potential blockbuster…
Risks of old, new diet drugs face U.S. scrutiny
• Drug News • Sep 11 10
The risks of a potential new diet pill and a 13-year-old weight-loss medicine face U.S. scrutiny next week as medical experts consider if the…
‘Anti-ageing’ medicines on the way
• Drug News • • Aging and Gerontology • May 12 10
Medicines that can help people live healthy lives to 100 and beyond may be available in as little as two years, an expert has…
Drug resistant H1N1 no major change in virus: WHO
• Drug News • • Swine Flu • Nov 27 09
Tamiflu resistance in some H1N1 patients with badly weakened immune systems does not seem to reflect a major change in the virus’ susceptibility to…
Consumer ads pump up prescription drug costs
• Drug News • • Public Health • Nov 24 09
Medicaid pharmacy costs for the blood-thinning drug Plavix jumped at around the same time the drug’s maker started advertising it to consumers - even…
New Paper from Internists Calls for Increased Role for FDA
• Drug News • Sep 24 09
A new policy paper that calls for broader authority and increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was released today by the…