The antibiotic tigecycline, when used in combination with current treatment, may hold the key to eradicating chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) cells, according to new research. The University of Glasgow led study, published today in Nature Medicine, demonstrates the effectiveness of combining tigecycline with the drug imatinib – a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) and standard first-line treatment of patients...
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FDA OKs Glaxo’s inhaler, first one to combine three medicines
This photo provided by GlaxoSmithKline PLC shows the company’s Trelegy Ellipta inhaler. Late Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the product, which is the first inhaler that combines three medicines to ease …more The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first inhaler combining three medicines to ease breathing in patients...
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Antioxidant supplement cost saving and effective for degenerative eye disease
A supplement that combines antioxidants with zinc and copper is a relatively inexpensive and effective means of halting the progression of a certain type of degenerative eye disease, concludes research published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. Given the costs and side effects of the current range of drugs used to treat the ‘wet’ form...
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Cancer drugs cost a QUARTER of the price that industry figures quote, a new study shows
Pharmaceutical companies tend to say a cancer drug costs $2.7billion But that highly-criticized figure was gathered from private data sets Now a study has found the average is actually around $650million Cancer drugs do not cost as much to produce as industry-sponsored research claims, according to a landmark analysis. Pharmaceutical companies often say it costs...
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Type 2 diabetics should take aspirin TWICE a day to prevent heart disease: Finding contradicts guidelines that recommend the anti-clotting drug once every 24 hours
When taken once a day, the risk of blood clots between doses is substantial Researchers advise taking the drug twice in a day to reduce clots between doses Participants who did not previously take aspirin were more at-risk of clotting Blood clots can lead to cardiovascular disease, such as heart attacks and stroke The researchers...
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Cells programmed like computers to fight disease
This is a figure showing RNA sequence of command. Led by Professor Alfonso Jaramillo in the School of Life Sciences, new research has discovered that a common molecule — ribonucleic acid (RNA), which is produced abundantly by humans, plants and animals — can be genetically engineered to allow scientists to program the actions of a...
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Drug for type 2 diabetes provides significant benefits to type 1 diabetic patients
A majority of patients with Type 1 diabetes who were treated with dapagliflozin, a Type 2 diabetes medicine, had a significant decline in their blood sugar levels, according to a new study published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. The results are being presented today by the University at Buffalo researcher who led the study at...
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New oral diabetes drug shows promise in phase 3 trial for patients with type 1 diabetes
A University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus study finds sotagliflozin helps control glucose and reduces the need for insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes. Principal results were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine of a global Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with type 1 diabetes treated with sotagliflozin. Sotagliflozin is an investigational...
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Danish discovery can pave the way for more effective cholesterol medicine
More than 600,000 Danes are being treated with cholesterol lowering medicine. 98 per cent of them are treated with statins, which curb the body’s own production of cholesterol so that the level of cholesterol falls. However, statins also give rise to the body forming more of a harmful protein – known as PCSK9 – which...
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Skin patch dissolves ‘love handles’ in mice
Microneedle skin patch that delivers fat-shrinking drug locally could be used to treat obesity and diabetes Microneedle patch. Researchers have devised a medicated skin patch that can turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat locally while raising the body’s overall metabolism. The patch could be used to burn off pockets of unwanted fat such...