Pharma
“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.” - Leonardo da VinciRecommended in Pharma
Paint it yellow for the real world
"Many HCPs do not realise that a medicine’s lack of effectiveness is reportable." There is a current trend to generate real-world data on medicines. This desire is being fuelled both by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers. In a cash...
Prescribing on your gut?
"It is unfair to disregard this association as an aberrant finding" On June 30th, the UK will wake up to another new world, probably less seismic than the EU referendum result, but one that will cause waves. In a drive for transparency and openness, the...
Places To Go In Pharma
- Using AI, scientists find a drug that could...on May, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Using AI, researchers identified a new antibiotic that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant infections.
- New chemical compound demonstrates potential in...on May, 2023 at 10:19 pm
Recent research has identified a new compound that can stimulate nerve regeneration after injury, as well as protect cardiac tissue from the sort of damage seen in heart attack.
- A better route to benzocyclobutenes, sought-after...on May, 2023 at 8:45 pm
Chemists devise a new, C-H activation-based method for the synthesis of BCBs.
- Cellular traffic controllers caught managing flow...on May, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Proteins that act like air traffic controllers, managing the flow of signals in and out of human cells, have been observed for the first time with unprecedented detail using advanced microscopy techniques. New findings could inform the development of better drugs for pain relief, diabetes or heart […]
- To boost cancer immunotherapy's fighting power,...on May, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Immunotherapy has redefined cancer treatment, but not all patients experience the same benefit when treated. New research in mice identifies how gut bacteria alter the body's response to a common form of cancer immunotherapy. The animals' gut microbiota lowered the expression of two immune […]
- New test reveals existing antibiotics, hiding in...on April, 2023 at 9:35 pm
A new test revealed that FDA-approved antibiotics -- available at your neighborhood pharmacy -- can effectively treat superbugs. They are not prescribed, however, because the gold-standard test predicts they will not work. The new test may improve the way antibiotics are developed, tested and […]
Header Banner: AZT the development name for zidovudine was the first drug launched to treat HIV. It was used in high doses and as monotherapy, causing horrendous side effects and resistance in the HIV virus. In the subsequent 30 years clinical trials has led to the development of single tablet, once daily regimens to treat HIV with limited side effects. Now a two pill combination called Truvada can be given to individuals to prevent the risk of acquiring HIV (shown in the DarkDrug logo).