Abbott announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), granted a positive opinion recommending approval of HUMIRA? (adalimumab) for the treatment of severe Crohn’s disease.
Janssen-Cilag International NV announced that the Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) in the European U nion, has granted a positive opinion recommending approval of INVEGA? (paliperidone prolonged release tablets). INVEGA? is a new, once-daily, prolonged release oral medication, for the treatment of schizophrenia.
A rigorous, long-term study of quality of life in patients who underwent one of three common prostate cancer treatments found that each treatment affected men’s lives in different ways.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered to their surprise that a drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus can also block angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels commonly seen in cancers.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that the same ingredient used in dandruff shampoos to fight the burning, itching and flaking on your head also can calm overexcited nerve cells inside your head, making it a potential treatment for seizures. Results of the study can be found online in Nature Chemical Biology.
Professor Alison Jones said benzylpiperazine was a ?new drug of abuse? which could have seriousclinical effects – similar to those of ecstasy to which it is structurally related.
An anti-reflux valve developed to help esophageal cancer patients also has been shown to help those with bile duct obstruction, according to Kulwinder S. Dua, M.D., a research physician at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
The amount Americans spent on arthritis medications more than doubled between 1998 and 2003, due to the fast-rising number of people with the disease, increases in the number of medications they take each month and the inflation-adjusted cost per prescription, according to a new study led by a UCSF researcher.
The herbal medicine Dan Shen, a standard treatment for ischemic stroke in China, lacks strong scientific evidence to support such use, according a new review of studies.
Cancer researchers led by Dr. John Dick at Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) have developed a method to convert normal human blood cells into ?human? leukemia stem cells.