Drug Approvals

In order to become availible to pateints, drugs need to undergo a number of phases of clinical trials to test their efficacy and safty and to then be authorised by the drug approval organistion in e...

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Drug Discovery - news, views, blogs and reports

In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which drugs are discovered and/or designed. In the past most drugs have been discovered either by identi...

Minimizing drug interactions

New dates. National Drug Facts Week begins Jan. 28, 2013

The third annual National Drug Facts Week will be held Jan. 28 through Feb. 3, 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today. This week-...

Amarin: The Basics, Pros, Cons, The Whole Scoop

By Ed Liston: I wrote an article touching on Amarin (AMRN) that wasn't too heavy on facts. After being chastised by a slew of blistering comments from the great Seeking Alpha audience, I did more thor...

Facts in scientific drug literature may not be

A growing concern with fraud and misconduct in published drug studies has led researchers to investigate the extent and reasons for retractions in the research.

Unique scientific collaboration reveals hard facts on European drug use

Surveys of drug use form an important basis for the development of effective drug policies, and also for measuring the effectiveness of existing policies. For the first time in history, scientists hav...

Facts & Comparisons Introduces Drug Plans Module to Help Retail Pharmacies Reduce Time Spent Managing Insurance Issues

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its drug information resource, Facts & C...

Facts about HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2011

Here are some key facts and figures on HIV/AIDS in 2011, released by UNAIDS on Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference set to take place in Washington on July 22-27.

Facts in scientific drug literature may not be, study finds

(Medical Xpress) -- A growing concern with fraud and misconduct in published drug studies has led researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research to in...

Climate change beliefs: Political views trump facts for some

For some people, scientific facts help determine what they believe about an issue. But for others, political views trump scientific facts and determine what information they will accept as true. It’...

Design, Evaluation, and Dissemination of a Plastic Syringe Clip to Improve Dosing Accuracy of Liquid Medications.

Pediatricians in Africa requested a tool to improve caregiver dosing of liquid antiretroviral medication. We developed, evaluated and disseminated a clip to control the amount of medication drawn into...

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Early treatment for class III malocclusions: the facts.

The goal of this article is to present some evidence based facts in order to answer the following questions: 1) Is early treatment of class III malocclusions effective? 2) Which therapeutic device is...

Discovering drug-drug interactions: a text-mining and reasoning approach based on properties of drug metabolism.

MOTIVATION: Identifying drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is a critical process in drug administration and drug development. Clinical support tools often provide comprehensive lists of DDIs, but they usua...

Level of Evidence for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of MPA in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is more and more used to prevent GVHD (Graft Versus Host Disease) during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with reduce-intensity conditioning. If several facts argue in f...