health - "medicine"

I'm sure you've heard of 'statins' like Lipitor , Zocor , and Pravachol . These powerful cholesterol-lowering medicines are widely used some people make jokes about adding them to the water supply.

Individuals with lower blood levels of vitamin D appear to have an increased risk of death overall and from cardiovascular causes, according to a report in the June 23 issue of Archives of Internal medicine.

UCLA researchers discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction inflicted by a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Because half of TSC patients also suffer from autism, the findings offer new hope for addressing learning disorders due to autism. Nature medicine publishes the findings in its online June 22 edition.

Canopus BioPharma, Inc. (OTC: CBIA), is pleased to announce that the South African Medicines Control Council has granted approval for a Phase II study in 30 cancer patients evaluating the protective effect of CB1400 on the gastrointestional tract from radiation-induced mucositis.

Treating cancer patients with interleukin-7 (IL-7), a small protein that can stimulate the immune system, leads to an increase in lymphocytes, key to the production of effective immune responses, in the body, according to a new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of health (NIH). The demonstration that IL-7 is able to broaden the possible immune responses in humans could have a wide range of clinical implications. This study was published online June 23, 2008, in The 'Journal of Experimental medicine'.

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear medicine ; MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 19 Jun 2008 - 0:00 PDT The first patient scans from a custom-built scanner combining positron ...

Australian non-profit organisation, the National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) has won a prestigious international 2008 Gold Quill Award for excellence in communication for its 2007 Get to know your medicines and Generic medicines are an equal choice national awareness campaigns.

Pfizer Inc announced that it has entered into an agreement with generics manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of India and certain of its affiliates to settle substantially all their patent litigation worldwide involving Lipitor, the world's most-prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicine. Under the terms of the agreement, Ranbaxy will have a license to sell generic versions of Lipitor and Caduet in the United States effective November 30, 2011.

(Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine) The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the health Sciences are holding the first-ever USU-HJF Symposium -- a meeting for leading military researchers and clinicians to discuss current and future advances in military medical research.

(Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine) Researchers from Northwestern University and Texas A & M University have discovered a new way to limit gene transfer and expression to specific tissues in animals. In studies to determine how plasmids enter the nuclei of non-dividing cells, the group previously identified a region of a smooth muscle cell-specific promoter that was able to mediate nuclear targeting of any plasmid carrying this sequence uniquely in cultured smooth muscle cells but in no other cell type.