drugs

Discovering drugs, biofuels in tropical seas

harminka — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:10:28 -0500

OHSU will lead an NIH-funded project to explore the biodiversity of Philippine marine mollusks and associated microbes that offer clues to potential central nervous system, cancer and antimicrobial drugs as well as enzymes for biofuels production

Free drug samples carry risks for children

harminka — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:02:44 -0500

Free prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's Hospital. The national study, the first to look at free drug sample use among children, appears in the October 2008 issue of Pediatrics.

New tool for right first time drug manufacture

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:12:11 -0500

A technology which provides high quality images of the crystallisation process marks the next step towards a 'right first time' approach to drug manufacture, according to engineers at the University of Leeds.

Cell removal technique could lead to cheaper drugs

harminka — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:56:37 -0500

Costly drugs to treat conditions such as cancer and arthritis could be manufactured more cheaply with a new technique developed by scientists

Healthy people and enhancement drugs

harminka — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:03:46 -0500

Healthy people are more willing to take drugs to enhance traits that are not fundamental to their identity.

Men Who Shipped Marijuana to Mayor’s Home Arrested

Odur Joe — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:28:42 -0500

Police in Prince George announced today that they have arrested a deliveryman and one other man believed to be behind last week’s shipping of unopened 32-pound package of marijuana to the wife of the mayor of Berwyn Heights.

Sociologist predicts drug disasters

harminka — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:17:06 -0500

Americans are likely to be exposed to unacceptable side effects of FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx in the future because of fatal flaws in the way new drugs are tested and marketed, according to research to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

How a tiny protein senses all the communications in cell

harminka — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:42:13 -0500

Cells rely on calcium as a universal means of communication. For example, a sudden rush of calcium can trigger nerve cells to convey thoughts in the brain or cause a heart cell to beat. A longstanding mystery has been how cells and molecules manage to appropriately sense and respond to the variety of calcium fluctuations within cells

First performance-enhancing drugs for exercise endurance?

harminka — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:34:06 -0500

While steroids can help build the bulky muscles that lend athletes and body builders power and speed, there hadn't been a drug capable of building the endurance needed to run a marathon or to ride a bike through the Alps. Now, there just might be, suggests a new study in mice reported in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

Cocaine addiction linked to voluntary drug use and cellular memory

harminka — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:12:08 -0500

Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain’s reward center even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such memory, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.

NIST trumps clumps: Making biologic drugs safer

harminka — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:29:02 -0500

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a technique to measure the formation of clumps of proteins in protein-based pharmaceuticals. This first systematic study clarifies the conditions under which scientists can be assured that their instruments are faithfully measuring the formation of protein aggregates, a major concern because of its impact on quality control and safety in biologic drug manufacturing.

Screening of tiny chemical fragments may pay big dividends in drug discovery

harminka — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:24:48 -0500

Scientists who develop new drugs are closely following the progress through clinical trials of a cache of drugs developed with counter-intuitive strategy that defies conventional wisdom, according to an article scheduled for the July 21 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.