It did not matter which medicine drug patients took so long as both inflammation and cholesterol were reduced.
These expenses visits to medical professionals as well as any medicine or drug which requires a prescription of a physician for legal use.
Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.
Like medicine, drug discovery was described as something that used to be an art but now was a science, and thus amenable to industrialization, and well-positioned to reap the associated benefits: economies of scale, benefits of standardization, robust metrics, etc.
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In summary, Precision Medicine, defined as rules (algorithm) based medicine by Clayton Christensen seems on the horizon, where medicine and drug discovery will ultimately be supported by intelligent systems (compare Watson) that will enable completely new therapeutic concepts, not least with the advent of mobileICT-based companion (monitoring)diagnostics.
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But news of a delay for Takeda's lead experimental medicine, a drug aimed at lowering cholesterol even more than current blockbusters like Lipitor, Crestor and Vytorin, should worry anyone connected with the drug industry.
Novartis says it hopes next year to apply for approval for three additional drugs for various tumors types, including a new treatment for ovarian cancer, a new lymphoma medicine and a drug for Cushing's disease, a benign tumor in the pituitary gland.
The drug's manufacturers Schering and mobile pharmacy Medicine Man claim that offering the drug at the festival will protect young women.
In both cases he sold the company that developed the medicine to a larger drug maker.
The findings illustrate the potential for a new era of genomic medicine, in which drug regimens are tailored to fit a person's genetic risk factors.
Recent studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicate that the drug has potential, but more studies must be done to confirm the results.
Also exciting: a stop-smoking pill, a long-delayed inhaled insulin, an osteoporosis medicine, a sleep drug and an antibiotic that can treat infections in a single dose.
In the most restrictive cases, only certain registered doctors are allowed to prescribe a medicine, or a drug is only distributed by a limited number of pharmacies.
At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Herceptin, a so-called personalized medicine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.
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Pfizer has shelved its most promising experimental drug because the medicine increased the risk of death in a giant clinical trial, a disaster for the world's largest drug company.
Researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center and elsewhere are reporting today in the New England Journal of Medicine that the Incyte drug, called INC424, improved symptoms of about 75% of 153 patients with myelofibrosis.
In the long term, researchers hope a detailed understanding of the genome's permutations will lead to a new era of customized medicine, in which drug regimens, diagnostic tools and medical devices are tailored to individual genetic codes.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), which spent years between drug approvals, last year had a promising new schizophrenia medicine approved and may get an AIDS drug onto the market this year.
For any drug, be it a new medicine to treat diabetes in millions of patients, or a drug to treat a rare disease afflicting only a few thousand people around the world, intense discussions and analyses are carried out to determine how best to price such a drug.
Farming is not like medicine, with a biotech drug that cures in Peoria having the same effect in Paris.
Cordaptive combines niacin, an already approved heart medicine, with a new drug that alleviates niacin's main side effect, hot-flash-like flushing.
Pfizer has gone a decade spending more than any other company with only a handful of moderate-sized successes, including the pain medicine Lyrica and the cancer drug Sutent.
Some lawmakers have been complaining that pharmaceutical companies benefit from Medicare Part D while seniors have to choose between buying medicine and food since the drug benefit passed in 2003.
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Kirsch says it's a common pattern in medicine to think a new drug has great benefits, only to discover years later that the apparent efficacy is mostly due to the placebo effect.
But the company's biggest success last year came from the breast cancer medicine Herceptin, an old drug for which Chief Executive Arthur Levinson helped lay the groundwork as a Genentech research scientist 26 years ago.
AstraZeneca lost the ulcer medicine Prilosec, the world's top drug before Lipitor earned the title, by replacing it with a similar medicine, Nexium, and launching a bunch of other drugs that, while not breakthroughs, had clear advantages over rivals.
Marcia Angell, a lecturer at Harvard University, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About Drug Companies, wrote in an e-mail that ghostwriting practices are "evidently very common" in medicine.
You can see the effect of the U.S. dominance in biology and medicine in the behavior of big drug companies.
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One such medicine is Xyrem, a narcolepsy drug sold by tiny Orphan Medical (nasdaq: ORPH - news - people ).
According to a study published in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a drug called pamidronate can prevent such bone weakening in prostate cancer patients.
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