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 Products Liability Claim on Reglan Tardive Dyskinesia: Now, AttorneyOne Can Provide Advice

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2012 AttorneyOne.com, a recognized authority on law, updated the website recently and is now actively providing expert opinion in view of the recent news on Regla...

New Lawsuit on Reglan Tardive Dyskinesia

According to court documents, on May 29th, 2012, a Minnesota woman, Marilyn Abicht, filed a lawsuit in Minnesota District Court (case no. 0:2012cv01278) alleging that Reglan (metoclopramide) caused he...

Antipsychotic Drug Controls "Breakthrough" Nausea and Vomiting after Chemotherapy

In a phase III clinical trial, the antipsychotic drug olanzapine (Zyprexa) was significantly more effective than metoclopramide (Reglan) in controlling chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV)...

Brand-name drugmaker can be sued for harm caused by generic drug

On 4 January 2013 the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Pfizer can be sued for failing to warn about a drug’s risks by a patient who claimed he was injured by a generic version of its gastric reflux...

Pfizer asks US Court to reconsider generic Reglan ruling

Pfizer has asked the US Supreme Court of Alabama to reconsider its decision of 4 January 2013, which would allow generics patients to sue brand-name drugmakers.

Pfizer Can Be Sued For Injury Caused By Generic

Here is a court ruling that is going to rile brand-name drugmakers. Late last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Pfizer can be sued by a man who claimed he was injured by a generic version of...

Pfizer Asks Court To Overturn Generic Injury Ruling

Last month, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a highly contentious ruling that Pfizer can be sued by a man who claimed he was injured by a generic version of its Reglan heartburn medicine, because the...

Behind the Landmark Weeks Case

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In a landmark decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled on January 11, 2013, that a patient who alleges injury from a generic prescription drug can...

Food and Drug Administration's Obesity Drug Guidance Document: A Short History.

Drug transporters in drug efficacy and toxicity.

Drug transporters are now widely acknowledged as important determinants governing drug absorption, excretion, and, in many cases, extent of drug entry into target organs. There is also a greater appre...

Emerging In vitro Tools to Evaluate Cytochrome P450 and Transporter-Mediated Drug-Drug Interactions.

Drug-drug interactions comprise a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide as they may lead to adverse clinical events, result in decrease/inactivation of the therapeutic effect of a dru...

Effect of Drug Loading Method on Drug Content and Drug Release from Calcium Pectinate Gel Beads.

Drug-loaded calcium pectinate gel (CaPG) beads were prepared by either mixing, absorption, or swelling method. The effects of drug loading method as well as the drug loading factors (i.e., drug concen...

Drug safety: Predicting adverse drug reactions.