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NHS watchdog rejects use of party drug ketamine as antidepressant despite hype over treatment
Last month drugs giant Janssen announced it had obtained a license to use 'esketamine' as an antidepressant in Europe. But NICE say there is not enough evidence it works long-term.
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Study suggests prenatal origin for ‘young' Parkinson's disease
A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine on January 2020 suggests that Parkinson's disease developing before the age of 50 years could be due to an abnormality in...
18 minutes ago - News Medical - 2 articles
NY, feds sue 'Pharma Bro' for 'scheme' to keep drug price up
State and federal authorities are suing imprisoned drug entrepreneur Martin Shkreli over business tactics that helped make him the bad-boy face of profiteering in the...
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Parkinson's disease may start before birth
People who develop Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to new research. The research...
2 hours ago - ScienceDaily - 2 articles
Improving drug testing with comprehensive 'Organ Chip' platform
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves only 13.8% of all tested drugs, and these numbers are even lower in "orphan" diseases that affect relatively few people.
3 hours ago - News Medical
Parkinson's disease may affect brain cells before birth
People who develop Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to new Cedars-Sinai research...
3 hours ago - News Medical - 3 articles
Study reveals substantial prevalence of drug promotions in U.S. primary care practices
According to a new Dartmouth study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, pharmaceutical companies' promotional access to outpatient practices that deliver primary care in the...
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Antihypertensive drug associated with lower risk of gout
Affecting more than 7 million adults in the United States, gout is characterized by a sudden onset of pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints and caused by the formation of...
4 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Enhancing drug testing with human body-on-chip systems
Scientists have devised a functioning comprehensive multi-Organ-on-a-Chip platform that enables effective preclinical drug testing of human drug pharmacology.
4 hours ago - ScienceDaily - 3 articles
New insights into globular glial tauopathy could aid in the design of better drugs
Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the accumulation of phospho-tau, in other words tau associated to phosphate groups.
5 hours ago - News Medical
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"Organ-on-a-Chip" model of the lung that Imitates human organ-level physiology and pathophysiology with high fidelity has been discovered.
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Parkinson's disease may start before BIRTH, study suggests
By 'rewinding' cells of early-onset Parkinson's disease patients back to their stem cell states, a Cedars-Sinai study found that, even as embryos, theyhad abnormal dopamine...
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