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Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 04 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT deCODE genetics announced the filing of an ...

After the late stage trial of obesity drug Taranabant Merck announced the cancellation of drug development because of adverse side effects.There was not much hope that Taranabant will be successfully developed because obesity drug development has not yet been successfull in targeting by any pharmaceutical company. However, Merck still conducted the trials to further develop Taranabant.read more

HealthDay - SATURDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Could a novel with an embedded message about good health help overweight girls develop the motivation to lose a few pounds? New research suggests that it just might, but the results weren't dramatic.

Young children who wheeze when they have rhinovirus infection - the most common cause of colds - are at much greater risk of developing asthma later during childhood, a new study says.

If a hip prosthesis implanted to replace a worn-out joint itself fails, then what are the reasons? Until now this problem has been little understood: partly due to incomplete records, partly due to insufficient knowledge of the forces acting on the hip replacement. Computation models developed by the University of Twente and UMC St.

A team of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands has identified mutations in three genes that are associated with high levels of uric acid in the blood, which is a risk factor for gout. The team developed a genetic risk score composed of the number of uric acid-increasing mutations that each person carries (0 to 6), which was associated with up to a 40-fold increased risk for developing gout when comparing persons at lowest and highest risk.

deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) announced the filing of an investigational new drug (IND) application for DG071, the company's novel small-molecule modulator of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).