Orphan drug development has become more feasible than in previous years but we’ve barely scratched the surface: only 367 approved orphan drugs out of 6,800 rare diseases. We need to keep the momentum going. Come April 10-13, over 300 key decision makers from orphan drug manufacturers, patient groups, payers and regulators will gather in DC at the 2nd annual World Orphan Drug Congress USA…
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ComplianceOnline, the leading governance, risk and compliance advisory network with over 500 experts in various regulatory subjects, today announced a seminar on The A to Z’s of Microbial Control, Monitoring and Validation of Pharmaceutical Water Systems. The two day long, in-person seminar, led by well known water systems expert T.C…
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Based on the knowledge that cancer cells grow indefinitely, the general belief is that senescence could act as a barrier against tumor growth and has the potential of being used as a cancer treatment…
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The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for the 225 million malaria patients in developing countries at an affordable price…
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Driving development through strategic outsourcingRegister NOW for the Clinical Outsourcing World conference to hear from the industry’s BEST Outsourcing professionals including representatives from: GSK, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Almirall, Merck Research Laboratories and many more! Pharma & Biotech delegates- register NOW for only £250+vat! Please note this …
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Fraudulent and substandard antimalarial drugs could be wrecking the chances of winning the war against malaria in Africa, researchers from the Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford University Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration reported in the Malaria Journal…
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and improve associated drug safety…
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A special group of proteins, the so-called chaperons, helps other proteins to obtain their correct conformation. Until now scientists supposed that hydrolyzing ATP provides the energy for the large conformational changes of chaperon Hsp90…
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Since the discovery of the microscope, scientists have tried to visualize smaller and smaller structures to provide insights into the inner workings of human cells, bacteria and viruses…
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The number of pharmaceutical products entering the market has declined in the last decade. With the economic downturn and increasing threat from generic companies, pharmaceutical companies have never been under greater pressure to develop new innovative drugs…
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