Pharmacology

Postivie Early Phase 1 Results For AG-120 In IDH1 Mutated AML

Results presented at the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Symposium in Barcelona show "extremely promising" early phase 1 clinical trial results for the investigational drug AG-120 against the subset of patients with ac ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 11:04am

Fuzzy Trace Theory: People Know Antibiotics Don't Cure Viruses But Still Ask For Them

People know that antibiotics won't help viruses. So why ask doctors for antibiotics? Subbotina Anna /Shuttstock By David Broniatowski, George Washington University; Eili Klein, Johns Hopkins University, and Valerie Reyna, Cornell University ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 25 2014 - 3:36pm

Christmas Party Good News: Drug Reduces Side-Effects Of ‘Binge Drinking’

Good news for Christmas party season: A new compound has been shown to reduce the harmful side-effects of ‘binge drinking’. It also has the potential for new ways to treat Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases that damage the brain but showing that w ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2014 - 12:30pm

So How Do Drugs Work?

 have to warn everyone that there is going to be a little math at the start, but not much, only one easy equation that you need to have a sense of if you are going to understand what drugs that inhibit enzymes do.   This equation is universal and can be ea ...

Article - Ryan Walsh - Nov 29 2014 - 2:41pm

Hype Around Marijuana As Treatment For Cancer Unwarranted

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Article - The Conversation - Nov 28 2014 - 2:31pm

No Link Between Antibiotics And Childhood Asthma

In epidemiology, matching curves are often enough to imply causation and so it is often done, even if there is no evidence to warrant the link. There has been an increased use of antibiotics and there are an increased number of diagnoses so some epidemiol ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2014 - 12:06pm

How's That Generic Drug Thing Working Out?

Just for yucks, let’s go back a few years and see how well people did in forecasting drug prices in the future. Within the past decade, we began to hear the term “patent cliff”—the consequence of most blockbuster drugs losing patent protection during a sho ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Dec 4 2014 - 1:11pm

Diabetes Medications Don't Cause Bladder Cancer

Some paper have suggested a link between the diabetes medication pioglitazone and bladder cancer but a new analysis, including more than 1,000,000 people in six populations worldwide, has found no link between either pioglitazone or rosiglitazone (also kn ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2014 - 1:31pm

Domperidone Off Label: No Risk As Breast Milk Stimulant But Perhaps Not Worth It

Some new mothers who are breast-feeding (and some who should have stopped by now) have turned to medications to help increase their milk supply- and that meant off-label use of domperidone, a nausea medication, to stimulate breast milk production. Some st ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2014 - 2:30pm

Liposome Encapsulated Cancer Drugs Reduce Heart Damage

A new technique involves wrapping chemotherapy drugs in a liposome- a fatty cover- and it reduces heart damage that would otherwise occur, according to a presentation by Professor Jutta Bergler-Klein and Professor Mariann Gyöngyösi from the Medical Univer ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2014 - 12:07pm