Study opens new path to fighting leukemia relapse
February 5, 2010 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsResearchers in Japan have identified 25 different spots on leukemia cells, each of which could be used to design a new drug to fight the disease.
“If we develop drugs against these molecules, we have a pretty good possibility of eliminating leukemia stem cells that cannot be killed by conventional anti-cancer drugs,” lead researcher Fumihiko Ishikawa at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy & Immunology in Yokohama, Japan, said by telephone.
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Lackluster cancer drug sales hit Roche profit
February 4, 2010 on 2:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsRoche Holding AG missed full-year profit forecasts due to disappointing sales of key cancer drugs and gave a Lackluster outlook for 2010, pointing up the wider challenges facing global drugmakers.
“Results clearly disappoint and 2010 guidance is no trigger for a positive sentiment either,” said Kepler Capital Markets analyst Martin Voegtli.
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Herbal remedies, heart drugs don’t mix: review
February 2, 2010 on 9:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsTaking ginkgo biloba, St. Johns wort and other widely used herbal supplements may be risky for people on heart disease medication, especially the elderly, according to a medical review released on Monday.
Mixing herbs and drugs also could cause serious heart rhythm problems and bleeding, according to the review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Hormone drugs for prostate cancer may hurt heart
February 2, 2010 on 8:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsProstate cancer treatments that cut off the supply of male hormone raise cholesterol, worsen blood sugar and make men fatter and thus likely raise the risk of heart attack, too, doctors said on Monday.
The American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Urological Association and American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology joined forces to write the advisory.
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Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks
January 30, 2010 on 4:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsPeople who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends.
“You may be wasting your money or you may actually be hurting yourself,” said Dr. Margaret E. Wierman, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and chief of endocrinology at the Denver VA Medical Center, who was not involved with the study.
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Targeting Cancer Stem Cells May Eradicate Tumors
January 30, 2010 on 12:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsNew ways of identifying and studying cancer stem cells in the lab could accelerate understanding of the cells and lead to the development of drugs that target them, British researchers say.
“Radiotherapy and chemotherapy work against all rapidly dividing cells,” he explained. “But there is increasing evidence that cancer stem cells are more resistant than other cells to this treatment.
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Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks
January 30, 2010 on 6:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsPeople who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends.
“You may be wasting your money or you may actually be hurting yourself,” said Dr. Margaret E. Wierman, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and chief of endocrinology at the Denver VA Medical Center, who was not involved with the study.
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Scientists find quicker way to study cancer drivers
January 26, 2010 on 8:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsBritish scientists have found a new and faster way of studying a crucial class of cancer cells, called cancer stem cells, which they say should speed up work on developing drugs against them.
“Working with cell lines is a much more convenient way to study these cells than using samples taken from human patients or using animal models,” said Walter Bodmer, who led the study.
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Gene discovery may help guide breast cancer care
January 25, 2010 on 10:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsAn abnormality in two genes can make a common class of chemotherapy drugs used to fight breast cancer less effective, U.S. researchers said on Sunday in a finding that could help doctors better tailor treatments.
“This is useful because it helps select who might be resistant to anthracyclines,” said Dr.
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First private pharmacy since 1971 opened in Sweden
January 20, 2010 on 3:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsSwedish Health and Social Affairs minister Goeran Haegglund inaugurated the countrys first private pharmacy since 1971 in front of reporters and a small crowd in Stockholm on Sunday.
The state-owned Apoteket chain of pharmacies was until Sunday the sole provider of prescription medication in Sweden, and was until November 2009 also the only provider of non-prescription drugs such as headache tablets or other over-the-counter products.
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