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U.S. Heart Disease Death Rates Have Fallen Sharply in Past 30 Years

Drugs.com

8, 2023 -- Fatal heart disease in the United States dropped about 4% a year between 1990 and 2019, but Americans need to quit smoking, drinking and overeating or those gains could be wiped out, according to new research. TUESDAY, Aug. The declining.

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Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Bayer reports positive early data for Parkinson’s cell therapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The treatment, developed by a biotech Bayer acquired in 2019, appeared safe in a small trial and showed signs of an effect on disease progression.

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A transatlantic collaboration is uncovering the role of key genetic variants in common diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity

Broad Institute

By Lucy Mutz November 4, 2024 Credit: Juliana Sohn Kasper Lage is managing director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease. The overall goal is to translate genetic findings into biological mechanisms underlying disease that could be targeted with new medicines.

Disease 72
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Drug Discovery Today publishes editorial on new approaches to the discovery of novel agents against 2019-nCoV (COVID - 19)

Drug Discovery Today

Drug Discovery Today has today published a pre print of an editorial by Yongtao Duan, Hai-Liang Zhu and Chongchen Zhou of Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Children’s Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450018, China

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Changes to CDSCO’s Rules for Clinical Trials in India: New Drugs & Clinical Trial Rules 2019

ProRelix Research

Being the second most populous country in the world with skilled labor and good infrastructure, India is a favorable destination for clinical trials for a wide variety of diseases.

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Building better brain models for Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Drug Target Review

The search for effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease has long been hindered by the brain’s complexity and the absence of adequate models for drug discovery. “For diseases like Parkinson’s, it’s more than sufficient,” he explains.

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