http://marketpublishers.com/lists/news_29.html Medicine, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology news en-us 2008-09-06 08:35:46 GMT 2008-09-06 08:35:46 GMT http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3453/news.html It's big business, but it may not have the impact that drug companies hope and that medical ethicists have long worried about. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising has only a modest effect on the sale of drugs, according to research released... 02.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3437/news.html Medical bills were cited as a burden by 41 percent of working-age Americans in a survey, up from 34 percent two years earlier. An estimated 72 million adults under age 65 have difficulty paying their medical bills or are paying off debt... 20.08.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3309/news.html Australian scientists have identified a potential treatment to combat malaria by pinpointing the process that helps the disease hijack red blood cells, reported The BBC. They have found the key to an adhesive that stops the parasite being... 14.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3291/news.html Eli Lilly & Co., the first company to market insulin, said it would buy SGX Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker of experimental cancer drugs, for $64 million in cash, reported The Bloomberg. Lilly will pay $3 a share for San Diego-based SGX,... 09.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3283/news.html Controlling blood pressure from middle-age onwards may dramatically reduce the chances of developing dementia, researchers have said, reported The BBC. Two studies support a link between high blood pressure and dementia risk - with one by... 08.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3270/news.html Screening programs that monitor the heart's activity during exercise detect more athletes at risk of sudden cardiac death than other tests and should be more widely used to save lives, a British Medical Journal study found, reported The... 05.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3249/news.html Picking up an infection is the public's main concern about hospital care, a UK-wide BBC poll shows, reported The BBC. Of the 1,040 people quizzed, 40% listed the risk of potentially deadly infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile... 30.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3243/news.html The Aids epidemic in some countries is so severe that it should be classified as a disaster, the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) has warned, reported The BBC. The crisis fits the UN definition of a disaster as an event beyond the scope of... 27.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3210/news.html Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body, reported The BBC. The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment. US... 19.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3203/news.html A third of the population have genes that could help them in the fight against heart disease, say scientists, reported The BBC. A study of 147,000 patients suggests that certain types of the CETP gene might increase the levels of so-called... 18.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3184/news.html Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, said its Azilect medicine helped slow the progression of Parkinson's disease in the final phase of clinical tests, reported The Bloomberg. Azilect, which Teva... 16.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3144/news.html A Nobel Prize-winning scientist says it could be tougher than first thought to harness the healing power of stem cells in medicine, reported The BBC. It had been hoped a single "master" cell could potentially be used to repair all... 09.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3119/news.html Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs, reported The BBC. A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to... 03.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3100/news.html The number of adults prescribed cholesterol-busting statin drugs in England and Wales is set to soar under new national guidelines, reported The BBC. GPs are being asked to trawl through patient records to pick out "high-risk"... 28.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3078/news.html Scientists may be one step closer to producing a specific targeted vaccine for killing cancer cells, reported The BBC. UK researchers have pinpointed a protein on immune cells which they hope will help them harness the body's defences to... 27.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3087/news.html People with dementia more than tripled their risk of death or hospitalization within a month of taking antipsychotic drugs to silence their agitation, according to a study, reported The Bloomberg. Those taking a class of antipsychotic drugs... 26.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3063/news.html Schools and universities may soon need to test students sitting exams for brain improving drugs, experts say, reported The BBC. The Academy of Medical Sciences said drugs for diseases such as Alzheimer's were being used by healthy people to... 22.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3052/news.html First-born babies may be programmed in the womb to have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, research suggests, reported The BBC. A University of South Carolina led team carried out tests on more than 1,200 newborns from the Isle of Wight.... 21.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3035/news.html No single drug alone will be enough to treat all the victims of a global flu pandemic, research has shown, reported The BBC. Tests on the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has spread in south east Asia, have shown it is developing resistance... 15.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3030/news.html AstraZeneca Plc, the U.K.'s second- largest drugmaker, won U.S. approval to widen the use of its Seroquel antipsychotic medicine to treat bipolar disorder, pitting the treatment against Eli Lilly & Co.'s top-selling Zyprexa and Bristol-Myers... 14.05.2008