Pharmacology

Hot off the presses: The FDA just approved the first biosimilar drug in the United States. Sandoz's Zarxio is used to boost the production of certain white blood cells in patients who are undergoing cancer chemotherapy, and are immunocompromised. Sa ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Mar 9 2015 - 4:00pm

Should Information From Stalled Drug Trials Be Published?

Drug discovery is an expensive, bureaucracy-laced process. Due to more restrictions requiring a lot more trials, drug discovery is an average 14 year process costing $2 billion and only 1 out of 5,000 drugs will get approved and out to the market. It' ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2015 - 2:06pm

This Drug Changed Cancer Treatment 50 Years Ago But Most People Have Never Heard Of It

This year marks the 50th anniversary of cisplatin’s accidental discovery as an anti-cancer drug. Despite its horrible side effects, and the ability of cancers to become resistant to it, the drug remains as relevant now as it was when it first reached the ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 10 2015 - 2:00pm

Reformulated OxyContin Forces Drug Abusers To Switch To Heroin

A reformulation of OxyContin made it harder to abuse and that has curtailed the drug's illicit use but some 25 percent of drug abusers entering rehab still find a way- or at least said they still abused the prescription painkiller on surveys despite p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2015 - 11:00am

Vitamin D's Inverse J-Shaped Curve Of Mortality

In 2015, it doesn't need to be said for anyone over the age of 40, but for young people still newer to Miracle Vegetable and Scare Journalism claims that get pumped out in diet books, mainstream media articles and television medicine on a regular bas ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 12 2015 - 12:48am

Cancer Drug Epothilone Causes Damaged Nerve Cells In Spinal Cord Injuries To Regrow

Damage to the spinal cord is often permanent because injured nerve cells fail to regenerate due to scar tissue of their long nerve fibers. Nerve cells are wire-like conductors that transmit and receive signals in the form of electrical impulses. This funct ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2015 - 5:02pm

Guanabenz Blood Pressure Drug Protects Against MS Symptoms In Animal Models

Guanabenz is an FDA-approved drug for high blood pressure but a new study also finds that it prevents myelin loss and alleviates clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in animal models. The drug appears to enhance an innate cellular mechanism that pr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 9:04am

Blood Pressure And Heart Rate Rise After Energy Drinks

Healthy young adults who don't consume caffeine regularly experienced greater rise in resting blood pressure after consumption of a commercially available energy drink than those who had a placebo drink, according to a Mayo Clinic study. The researche ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 11:30am

Social Media May Allow Detection Of Adverse Effects Of Medication In Real Time

Adverse Drug Reactions are the biggest safety concern in the health field and they refer to harmful and unintended effects of drugs administered for the prevention and treatment of illness, both at normal dosages and in cases of incorrect usage or errors i ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2015 - 9:13am

Under Obamacare, Cost May Make The Best Drugs Unavailable

New Hepatitis C drugs are terrific- but like every new drug they cost a lot of money to develop and took a lot of time to navigate the regulatory system and as a result they are not cheap. Most cost-benefit analyses have found that these new treatments sav ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2015 - 6:21pm