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Health - Pharmacology - 31.03.2023

Game-changing research into new pancreatic cancer treatment underway
Pioneering research into a new game-changing treatment for those affected by pancreatic cancer has begun, giving hope to patients.

Life Sciences - Pharmacology - 30.03.2023

ERC Advanced Grant to chase the holy grail of ’drugging the undruggable’

Pharmacology - 30.03.2023

Cryptomarkets increasingly infuse illicit drug trade—study
Cryptomarkets-marketplaces on the dark web that can facilitate the sale of illicit goods between vendors and buyers-are proving to be attractive alternatives to traditional in-person drug dealing, acc

Health - Pharmacology - 29.03.2023

Johannes Klopf and Anna Sotir receive the Finlandia Prize of the Association of International Vascular Surgeons
People of the MedUni Vienna Johannes Klopf and Anna Sotir from the Division of Vascular Surgery of the Department of General Surgery and Surgical Research Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna

Pharmacology - Health - 29.03.2023

FDA approves OTC naloxone
FACULTY Q&A The Food and Drug Administration has approved a recommendation that naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug commonly known as Narcan, be made available over the counter without a prescription.

Pharmacology - Health - 28.03.2023

Inspiring the next generation of pharmacists
Waterloo School of Pharmacy students visit local elementary schools for Pharmacy Appreciation Month By Milana Madzarac School of Pharmacy Every March since 2016, students from Waterloo's School of Pha

Health - Pharmacology - 27.03.2023

Mathematical Modelling to Inform Next-Generation Malaria Interventions
Global progress against malaria has stagnated and novel medical interventions are urgently needed.

Health - Pharmacology - 24.03.2023

Finding new ways to diagnose childhood brain tumours
Cambridge researchers are using new techniques to distinguish different types of medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumour in children. With one in four children with this tumour type suffering long-term memory loss and speech issues after surgery, it is important that we work towards improving diagnostic methods which avoid surgery Jessica Taylor Funded by The Brain Tumour Charity, this research aims to develop new ways to diagnose medulloblastoma using minimally invasive methods, protecting the quality of life of children with this diagnosis.

Health - Pharmacology - 23.03.2023

Opinion: TB in children isn’t being controlled - it’s key to fighting the disease for everyone else

Health - Pharmacology - 23.03.2023

Lessons learned during Ebola crisis can help manage Marburg outbreak: University of Toronto expert
Earlier this year, Equatorial Guinea declared its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, with 11 confirmed deaths so far.

Health - Pharmacology - 22.03.2023

’Not many natural scientists can offer the combination of basic research and clinically oriented research.’
The -InFlame- Medical Scientist Programme supports postdocs from natural science disciplines to conduct medical research on inflammatory processes / Interview with the programme spokesperson Petra De

Health - Pharmacology - 22.03.2023

New funding to protect bats from fungal epidemic hinges on UW-Madison discoveries
University of Wisconsin-Madison pediatrician Bruce Klein is trying to save bats.

Health - Pharmacology - 21.03.2023

Swiss TPH Symposium on Tuberculosis: A Call to Action

Pharmacology - 21.03.2023

Can pharmacies offer frontline support to victims of intimate partner violence?
UdeM professor Simon Matoori publishes a guide to help pharmacists identify and assist victims. Can pharmacists be valuable allies for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV)- Can they identify victims, assess the danger they're in and help them find the right resources?

Health - Pharmacology - 20.03.2023

Health - Pharmacology - 20.03.2023

Does the Covid-19 vaccine have an adverse effect on menstrual cycles ?
According to a study led by CNRS researcher Alexandra Alvergne 1 , the Covid-19 vaccine does not cause advserse menstrual changes.

Pharmacology - 20.03.2023

Health - Pharmacology - 17.03.2023

Toxic trade-offs
While advances in immunotherapy have dramatically improved cancer survival, unleashing the immune system can lead to a host of adverse-sometimes life-threatening-reactions.

Health - Pharmacology - 17.03.2023

Calls for total elimination of direct sales of vaping products

Health - Pharmacology - 16.03.2023

Immune-cell booster for cancer patients
Cancer patients might one day benefit from being administered immune cells from healthy donors. But as things stand, receiving donor cells can cause severe or even fatal immune reactions. A researcher at ETH Zurich has now developed a technology that avoids these. Edo Kapetanovic is a medical doctor, but for a while now he has devoted himself entirely to research in synthetic immunology.

Pharmacology - 16.03.2023

Are demographics getting in the way of pain management?
Imagine that you are in pain. Maybe you stepped off a ladder and hurt your shoulder. The pain isn't intense enough for you to go to the doctor immediately, so you wait. Before you know it, the pain won't let you sleep, and you can't carry your groceries. You finally run to the doctor expecting they'll diagnose the underlying cause of your pain and relieve your symptoms.

Health - Pharmacology - 15.03.2023

UBC-led biomedical innovation hub to accelerate development and manufacturing of lifesaving medicines for Canadians

Pharmacology - Health - 15.03.2023

Clinical trial success for psoriasis drug
A company launched from The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has passed an important milestone in developing an oral treatment for the common skin disease psoriasis.

Pharmacology - Psychology - 15.03.2023

Opinion: Antidepressant withdrawal should be taken seriously - we’re investigating ways to help
Dr Mark Horowitz and Professor Joanna Moncrieff (both UCL Psychiatry) and Katharine Wallis from Queensland University examine in the Conversation the withdrawal symptoms of antidepressants and assess the advice supported by NHS England to safely stop taking them.

Health - Pharmacology - 14.03.2023

Social Care Minister visits Imperial for launch of cancer breath test study
Minister for Social Care Helen Whately MP visited the Hammersmith Campus last week to discuss Imperial's research on diagnosing cancer.

Health - Pharmacology - 14.03.2023

Researchers awarded $47 million for medical research

Health - Pharmacology - 13.03.2023

Inflammations under control, but still abdominal pain
  Many people with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis continue to experience persistent abdominal pain.

Health - Pharmacology - 13.03.2023

Health - Pharmacology - 13.03.2023

Every shot, a shot of gold
Interdisciplinary teamwork invaluable to health-care system By Milana Madzarac School of Pharmacy The Waterloo School of Pharmacy implemented a mass vaccination clinic for COVID-19 immunization in 2021. With many multidisciplinary teams working together in an environment not built for such a complex clinical system, researchers at the University of Waterloo created an app to support front-line workers.

Pharmacology - Health - 13.03.2023

Health - Pharmacology - 13.03.2023

"Het mes kan van tafel"
There is a saying in Dutch: "Met het mes op tafel" which translates to "With the knife on the table".

Health - Pharmacology - 10.03.2023

Hopkins COVID-19 data hub ends after three years
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center ceased collecting and reporting pandemic data J ohns Hopkins University & Medicine's Coronavirus Resource Center ceased collecting and reporting COVID-19

Health - Pharmacology - 08.03.2023

Pharmacology - 06.03.2023

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Pharmacology - Psychology - 03.03.2023

Antipsychotics are increasingly being prescribed to children - here’s why we should be concerned
Matthias Pierce , University of Manchester Kathryn Abel , University of Manchester An increasing number of young people in the UK are being referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Alongside this is the rising number of children prescribed medicines that treat mental illness. The evidence for the effectiveness and safety of these drugs comes almost entirely from studies in adults.

Health - Pharmacology - 03.03.2023

A potential new treatment for prostate cancer
Researchers at the Institute of oncology research (IOR, affiliated to USI and member of Bios+ ) , in collaboration with researchers from the University of Padova, have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change the way we think about ageing and immune cells offering a potential new target for treatments in cases of prostate cancer.

Health - Pharmacology - 02.03.2023

Pharmacology - Health - 01.03.2023

NSW Government backs University-led consortium on drug discovery

Health - Pharmacology - 28.02.2023

Drug from cancer chemotherapy helps fight deadly fungal infections
Infections with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus are difficult to fight - especially because the fungus forms a biofilm and can thus protect itself from antifungal drugs and the immune defence system.

Pharmacology - Innovation - 27.02.2023

Health - Pharmacology - 27.02.2023

Causeway Therapeutics Secures £8.75M for Phase 2 Trial of Tendinopathy Therapy
Causeway Therapeutics, a University of Glasgow spin-out specializing in tendon disease has raised £8.75M from investors to to advance development of microRNA therapeutics.

Pharmacology - Health - 27.02.2023

Clinical trial launches for new schizophrenia drug
A potential new treatment for schizophrenia developed by Cardiff University's Medicines Discovery Institute is entering the first phase of a clinical trial. The drug - MDI-26478 - is designed to target specific receptors that play a key role in brain health. Cognitive decline is a core element of schizophrenia and current treatments fail to treat this effectively.

Pharmacology - Health - 27.02.2023

MIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects
The program leverages MIT's research expertise and Takeda's industrial know-how for research in artificial intelligence and medicine. Close In 2020, the School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company launched the MIT-Takeda Program, which aims to leverage the experience of both entities to solve problems at the intersection of health care, medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Health - Pharmacology - 24.02.2023

India hospital network launched to initiate life-saving colon cancer trial
Twelve hospitals across country will be part of the network which will support the trial in India Cancer surgery experts today launched a network of hospitals across India to support a country-wide clinical trial exploring how giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back.

Health - Pharmacology - 23.02.2023

New data of efficacy of a Meningococcal B Vaccine and a Preventive Antibiotic in Reducing the Risk of Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Infections and proven efficacy of the MVA-BN Vaccine Against Mpox
Emerging Infectious Diseases in partnership with Roche , was conducted by a research team from the Paris Public Hospitals Group AP-HP, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, and Sorbonne Université in collaboration with the associations AIDES and Coalition PLUS.

Health - Pharmacology - 23.02.2023

More awareness needed to improve heart health in women: University of Toronto researcher
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in women - and the mortality rate has been steadily increasing since 2017 in Canada and the United States.

Health - Pharmacology - 22.02.2023

MedUni Vienna’s Transplantation Research Platform Awards ’Start up Grants’ to Young Researchers
University , People of the MedUni Vienna The Transplantation Research Platform of the Medical University of Vienna has awarded two "Startup Grants" to support young scientists in the field of transplant research.

Health - Pharmacology - 22.02.2023

When researchers join forces in the fight against cancer
Since 2016, the Swiss Cancer Center Léman provides a space for scientists and clinicians from across the Lake Geneva region to pool their efforts, share insights and work together on innovative cancer treatments.

Health - Pharmacology - 21.02.2023

Roadmap sets out new global strategy for development of more effective coronavirus vaccines
Plan will accelerate a new approach to coronavirus vaccines research and development, to protect against COVID-19 variants and future pandemic threats from new coronaviruses It's vital that we continu