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Link between global warming and rising sea levels

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study suggests that Earth's natural forces could substantially reduce Antarctica's impact on rising sea levels, but only if carbon emissions are swiftly reduced in the coming decades. By the same token, if emissions continue on the current trajectory, Antarctic ice loss could lead to more future sea level rise than previously thought.

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Primaquine-5,6-orthoquinone is directly hemolytic to older G6PD deficient RBCs in a humanized mouse model. [Toxicology]

ASPET

Primaquine and tafenoquine are the only approved drugs that can achieve a radical cure for Plasmodium vivax malaria but are contraindicated in patients who are deficient in glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDd) due to risk of severe hemolysis from reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by redox cycling of drug metabolites. 5-hydroxyprimaquine and its quinone-imine cause robust redox cycling in red blood cells (RBCs), but are so labile as to not be detected in blood or urine.

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Legit Ozempic Sales Soar While Counterfeits Put Patients in Danger

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Two new studies show how eager Americans are to obtain either safe, legitimate versions of Ozempic or counterfeit and potentially dangerous forms of the diabetes/weight-loss drug.One study found U.S. prescriptions and.

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Effect of vascular senescence on the efficacy and safety of warfarin: insights from rat models and a prospective cohort study [Cardiovascular]

ASPET

Warfarin, with its narrow therapeutic range, requires the understanding of various influencing factors for personalized medication. Vascular senescence, marked by vascular stiffening and endothelial dysfunction, has an unclear effect on the efficacy and safety of warfarin. Based on previous studies, we hypothesized that vascular senescence increases the risk of bleeding during warfarin therapy.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Scientists pin down the origins of the moon's tenuous atmosphere

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact vaporization.

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Mpox Has Surged in Africa Amid Shortages of Vaccines and Treatments

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Mpox cases have soared by 160% in Africa this year, as a lack of both vaccines and treatments hamper efforts to slow the spread of the virus.In a report released by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on.

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Many Women Don't Know This Warning Sign of Endometrial Cancer

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Too many women don’t know a key warning sign of endometrial cancer, the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, a new study shows.More than one-third (37%) of women surveyed did not know that postmenopausal b.

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Solving the doping problem: Enhancing performance in organic semiconductors

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Physicists have discovered two new ways to improve organic semiconductors. They found a way to remove more electrons from the material than previously possible and used unexpected properties in an environment known as the non-equilibrium state, boosting its performance for use in electronic devices.

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Fish Oil Might Help High-Risk Older Adults Avoid Alzheimer's

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Fish oil supplements might help high-risk seniors stave off Alzheimer’s disease, a new study finds.Older people with a higher genetic risk of Alzheimer’s experienced slower breakdown of their brain’s nerve cells if they took.

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Perficient Included In Forrester’s Modern Application Development Services Landscape, Q3 2024

Perficient: Drug Development

Imagine a world where your business can effortlessly keep pace with technological advancements and continuously changing customer expectations. The ability to swiftly develop new technology products and applications is crucial to staying competitive. However, relying solely on in-house development capabilities is not always feasible for many organizations.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Background Checks Not Enough to Lower Gun Homicide Rates: Study

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Background checks alone might not be enough to reduce shooting deaths in the United States, a new study warns.States that require gun permits, rather than relying solely on universal background checks, have firearm murder.

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How the rising earth in Antarctica will impact future sea level rise

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise, a new study suggests.

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Sit a Lot? Exercise Might Offset the Damage to Your Health

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- People can offset hours spent sitting around with minutes of active exercise each week, a new study claims.Folks who are sedentary for eight or more hours daily can lower their overall risk of death – and especially their r.

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What gave the first molecules their stability?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team has demonstrated a mechanism that could have enabled the first RNA molecules to stabilize in the primordial soup. When two RNA strands combine, their stability and lifespan increase significantly.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Smoking & Vaping Together Raise Lung Cancer Risks Even Higher

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Experts have long suspected it, but a new study confirms that folks who vape and smoke tobacco face higher risks for lung cancer than if they'd done either alone.“From a public health perspective, we have always been c.

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Real-World Evidence in Clinical Drug Development

Quanticate

Real-world evidence (RWE) is changing clinical drug development, bridging the gap between controlled clinical trial environments and the complexities of everyday patient experiences. By using Real-World Data (RWD) from various sources like electronic health records (EHRs), insurance claims, and digital health tools, researchers can gather valuable insights into how drugs work in a wide range of populations.

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Sea level changes shaped early life on Earth, fossil study reveals

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Shifts in the Earth's continental plates that drove long-term changes in sea level set the stage for the evolution of the earliest animals on Earth, a study suggests.

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Graph neural networks for identifying protein-reactive compounds

Covalent Modifiers

Victor Hugo Cano Gil and Christopher N. Rowley Digital Discovery , 2024 [link] The identification of protein-reactive electrophilic compounds is critical to the design of new covalent modifier drugs, screening for toxic compounds, and the exclusion of reactive compounds from high throughput screening. In this work, we employ traditional and graph machine learning (ML) algorithms to classify molecules being reactive towards proteins or nonreactive.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Fossil shows how penguins' wings evolved

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A tiny fossil penguin plays a huge role in the evolutionary history of the bird, an international study shows.

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Vir retreats from infectious disease; Vertex shelves two drugs for AATD

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The one-time drug developer is pivoting to cancer research. Elsewhere, Neurocrine reported a strong quarter and venBio raised half a billion dollars for biotech investing.

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Automated Resolution of IBM Sterling OMS Exceptions

Perficient: Drug Development

In IBM Sterling OMS, Exception Handling is the procedure for managing deviations from the normal order processing flow – including incorrect pricing, missing information, inventory issues, stock shortages, payment issues, or shipping errors – which require immediate attention to preserve service quality and operational continuity. Retail businesses manage order processing and exception handling through manual entries and semi-automated systems.

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23andMe board rejects CEO Wojcicki’s take-private proposal

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A special committee of the board said the proposal offers no premium to 23andMe’s stock price and, with a lack of committed financing, is “insufficient.

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What We Expect the FDA to do in August and September 2024

Agency IQ

By Alexander Gaffney, MS, RAC In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the months ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more. The goal: To allow regulatory professionals to better anticipate and prepare for upcoming events and catalysts. Fill out the form to read the full article.

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July 19, the day the Earth stood blue.

Perficient: Drug Development

What went wrong on July 19, 2024? On July 19, 2024, the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike made a mass update to its CrowdStrike Falcon sensor on millions of computers worldwide. These updates are used to help identifying new threats and improve its cyberattack prevention capabilities. This upgrade proved to be a big mistake, causing a major crash on Windows systems everywhere.

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What we expect EU chemical regulators to do in August 2024

Agency IQ

By Scott Stephens, MPA Welcome to AgencyIQ’s monthly roundup of EU chemical sector activities. This recurring feature compiles information from across EU agencies and institutions to deliver an overview of chemicals-related regulatory actions likely to happen in the month ahead, including planned legislation, consultations, webinars, meetings, and more.

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Which pharmaceutical drugs have the most drug patents in Ireland?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the drugs with the most patents in Ireland. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is desired.

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Digital Health Update: HHS’ new AI Office, FDA’s report on AI in surveillance – and coming policy

Agency IQ

By Laura DiAngelo, MPH In late July 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, elevating what has historically been an office within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to lead HHS-wide artificial intelligence and technology policy work. Simultaneously, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing new guidance, while FDA is previewing future work.

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New tentative approval for Alembic drug dabigatran etexilate mesylate

Drug Patent Watch

Dabigatran etexilate mesylate is the generic ingredient in two branded drugs marketed by Alkem Labs Ltd, Apotex, Hetero Labs Ltd Iii, and Boehringer Ingelheim and, and is included in five NDAs.

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What we expect European regulators to do in August and September 2024

Agency IQ

By Sebastian Godoy, MPH , Kirsten Messmer, PhD, RAC, Corey Jaseph, MS, RAC , Kari Oakes In this recurring feature, AgencyIQ, through public data and previous analysis, determines what European medicine and device regulators will likely do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods, and more. Fill out the form to read the full article.

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Mental Health Risks Rise in Months After Heart Attack

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 -- Hospitalization for a heart-related emergency can have profound effects on a person’s mental health, a new study finds.People hospitalized for heart attack, stroke or other heart-related illnesses were 83% more likely to be d.

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Mid-Year Hub Review: Five Considerations for Staying Ahead of the Curve

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from Stacey Little, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at AssistRx. Stacey provides five crucial questions to help life science companies evaluate providers of patient support programs (PSPs). To learn more, register for AssistRx's free three-part webinar series: Ahead of the Curve: Considerations for your 2025 Patient Support Program.

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PTSD of Mass Shootings Can Haunt Community Members for Years

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Aug 2. 2024 -- Mass shootings and other traumatic events hit community members hard, with those closest to the incident often experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) even years later, new research shows. "Outcomes of mass.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You What We Expect the FDA to do in August and September 2024

Agency IQ

What We Expect the FDA to do in August and September 2024 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the months ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more. The goal: To allow regulatory professionals to better anticipate and prepare for upcoming events and catalysts.

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