AstraZeneca LP and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP will pay $520 million to resolve allegations that AstraZeneca illegally marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services’ Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) announced today…
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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the ASHP Research and Education Foundation today announced a commitment from Pharmacy OneSource to provide “Bronze Level” funding in support of the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI). The PPMI, launched earlier this year, is the next major step in the evolution of pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems…
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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the ASHP Research and Education Foundation today announced a commitment from the Cardinal Health Foundation to provide “Silver Level” funding in support of the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI). The PPMI, launched earlier this year, is the next major step in the evolution of pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems…
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Seven national pharmacy organizations collaborated on the analysis and response to a document published by the American Medical Association (AMA Scope of Practice Data Series: Pharmacists) for its members. The document describes the scope of practice of the pharmacy profession as viewed by the AMA authors…
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A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has discovered the structure of a protein that pinches off tiny pouches from cells’ outer membranes. Cells use these pouches, or vesicles, to carry nutrients and other essential substances, but many medicines also hitch a ride inside them…
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A $145-million Federal Government effort to harness the power of nanotechnology to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is producing innovations that will radically improve care for the disease. That’s the conclusion of an update on the status of the program, called the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer…
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Whether different odors can be quickly distinguished depends on certain synapses in the brain that inhibit nerve stimulation. The researchers in Professor Dr. Thomas Kuner’s team at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Heidelberg University Medical School and Dr…
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MicroRNAs are small bits of RNA within cells that wield enormous power. They influence virtually every biological process by controlling the “expression” of genes. Helping them in exerting this control is a unique class of proteins called Argonautes. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers led by Professor and HHMI investigator Gregory Hannon, Ph…
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The programme of this campus activity is divided into three sessions: the past, present and future of PGD, PGD from a patient’s perspective and embryology and ethics related to PGD. The target audience for this meeting is genetic counselors, molecular biologists, cytogeneticists, physicians, nurses, embryologists, patient advocacy groups and patients themselves…
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Many of the colon cancer cells that form tumors can be killed by genetically short-circuiting the cells’ ability to absorb a key nutrient, a new study has found. While the findings are encouraging, the test tube study using human colon cancer cells also illustrates the difficulty of defeating these cells, known as cancer stem cells (CSCs)…
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