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Evaluating the potential for psilocybin as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder [Minireview]

ASPET

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychiatric condition that develops following exposure to a traumatic event. Individuals with this condition experience numerous physiological and behavioral alterations, including intrusive memories, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, heightened anxiety, hypervigilance, impaired cognition, elevated resting heart rate and blood pressure, and altered neuroendocrine function, to name a few.

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Researchers test ChatGPT, other AI models against real-world students

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical and health informatics course. The models scored higher than as many as three quarters of the real-world students in the class.

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Polluting Puff: Asthma Inhalers Are Big Contributors to Climate Change

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be causing big climate problems for Mother Earth, a new study warns.Each inhaler dose contains some of the most potent greenhouse gases known, and they are adding up, researchers.

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How the brain changes during pregnancy

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers follow the dramatic changes that occur in the brain throughout the course of pregnancy.

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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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Ozempic Could Curb Progression of Diabetes-Linked Liver Disease

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Fatty liver disease linked to diabetes and obesity can easily progress to liver cirrhosis, but new research suggests that GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic can help stop that. In a new decades-long study, veterans with diabetes.

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Expert Advice on Preparing for the Fall COVID, Flu Season

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- People should prepare for the fall cold and flu season by getting the updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, an infectious diseases expert says.“When my patients ask me if they should be getting a COVID vaccine this y.

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Astronomers detect black hole 'starving' its host galaxy to death

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars.

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How is Parkinson’s disease diagnosed?

Antidote

Receiving a Parkinson’s diagnosis is a life-altering event that nearly 1 million people in the United States have experienced. Parkinson’s disease symptoms can vary from person to person. Receiving a diagnosis often requires several steps. In this blog, we’ll be sharing more details about the disease and discussing opportunities for individuals to get involved in Parkinson’s research.

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'Food theft' among seabirds could be transmission point for deadly avian flu

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue where to monitor for outbreaks among these vulnerable birds.

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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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Breathing Could Bring Microplastics Into the Human Brain, Study Shows

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- For the first time, scientists have detected microscopic microplastics lodged in the human brain.Researchers in Germany and Brazil say that 8 out of 15 autopsied adults had microplastics detected within their brain's smell.

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Baicalein Targets MAPK9 to Induce Apoptosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

This study identified MAPK9 as the directly binding target of baicalein by the DNA-programmed affinity labeling method and tested the binding affinity as 89.7 nM by surface plasmon resonance. Baicalein stabilized MAPK9 to induce apoptosis in hepatocarcinoma cells, which would be helpful to understand and use baicalein in hepatocarcinoma therapy. ABSTRACT Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a significant global health concern.

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Vaping Is Harming College Students' Brains, Study Shows

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Vaping may look cool when you're young, but it appears to be dulling the brains of college students, a new study warns.College students who vape have lower cognitive function scores than those who don't, researchers.

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Alternative reinforcers enhance the effects of opioid antagonists, but not agonists, on oxycodone choice self-administration in nonhuman primates [Behavioral Pharmacology]

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Clinical reports suggest that the most effective strategies for managing opioid use disorder comprise a comprehensive treatment program of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. However, the conditions under which these combinations are most effective are not well characterized. This study examined whether the presence of an alternative reinforcer could alter the efficacy of FDA-approved opioid antagonist or agonist medications, as well as the non-opioid flumazenil, in decreasi

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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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Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Possibility of Human Transmission

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) -- In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have reported that a person who lived with a Missouri.

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Factors influencing the Central Nervous System (CNS) distribution of the ATR inhibitor elimusertib (BAY1895344): Implications for the treatment of CNS tumors [Metabolism, Transport, and Pharmacogenetics]

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is a disease of the whole brain, with infiltrative tumor cells protected by an intact BBB. GBM has a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatment, in part due to lack of adequate drug permeability at the BBB. Standard of care GBM therapies include radiation and cytotoxic chemotherapy that lead to DNA damage. Subsequent activation of DNA damage response (DDR) pathways can induce resistance.

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Immunotherapy Drugs Extend Survival for Patients With Advanced Melanomas

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept 16, 2024 -- A decade of patient follow-up finds a combo of two immunotherapy drugs can greatly extend survival for people with advanced melanomas.In 2011, a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic melanoma typically meant death within 6.5.

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First-in-Class Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase p38{alpha}: MAPK-Activated Protein Kinase-2 (MK2) Dual Signal Modulator with Anti-inflammatory and Endothelial-stabilizing Properties [Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine]

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We previously identified a small molecule, UM101, predicted to bind to the substrate-binding groove of p38aMitogen-activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) near the binding site of its proinflammatory substrate, MAPK-activated protein kinase (MK2). UM101 exhibited anti-inflammatory, endothelial-stabilizing, and lung-protective effects. To overcome its limited aqueous solubility and p38a binding affinity, we designed an analog of UM101, GEn-1124, with improved aqueous solubility, stability, and p38a bindi

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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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As Biosecure bill advances, drugmakers prepare for prospect of China pivot

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Legislation that passed the House of Representatives passed the Biosecure Act last week would forced U.S. biotechs to cut ties with five Chinese contract partners.

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Sensory-motor neuropathy in Mfn2 T105M knock-in mice and its reversal by a novel piperine-derived mitofusin activator [Neuropharmacology]

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Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of many genetic neurodegenerative diseases, but therapeutic options to reverse mitochondrial dysfunction are limited. While recent studies support the possibility of improving mitochondrial fusion/fission dynamics and motility to correct mitochondrial dysfunction and resulting neurodegeneration in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and other neuropathies, the clinical utility of reported compounds and relevance of pre-clinical models are uncertain.

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Genetics Suggest Link Between ALS, Parkinson's Disease

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- People with rare genetic variants linked to degenerative brain disorders like Parkinson’s disease are at increased risk of developing ALS, a new study finds.Further, having these genetic variants increases the risk of a p.

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Nonclinical Profile of PF-06952229 (MDV6058), a Novel TGF{beta}RI/Activin Like Kinase 5 (ALK-5) Inhibitor Supports Clinical Evaluation in Cancer [Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine]

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The development of TGFβR inhibitors (TGFβRi) as new medicines have been affected by cardiac valvulopathy and arteriopathy toxicity findings in nonclinical toxicology studies. PF-06952229 (MDV6058) selected using rational drug design is a potent and selective TGFβRI inhibitor (TGFβRIi) with a relatively clean off-target selectivity profile and good pharmacokinetic properties across species.

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Harnessing AI and Real-World Data: The Future of Clinical Development

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The pharmaceutical industry is currently experiencing a significant transformation. The convergence of real-world data (RWD), technology and artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a vital role in accelerating drug development. In a recent panel discussion at DIA Global , our experts explored how these elements are reshaping clinical research and drug discovery.

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Identification of pyrimidine structure-based compounds as allosteric ligands of the dopamine transporter as therapeutic agents for NeuroHIV [Neuropharmacology]

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The disruption of dopamine neurotransmission by the HIV-1 Transactivator of transcription (Tat) during HIV-1 infection has been linked to the development of neurocognitive disorders, even under combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) treatment. We have demonstrated that SRI-32742, a novel allosteric modulator of dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT), attenuates cocaine- and Tat-binding to DAT, alleviates Tat-induced cognitive deficits and potentiation of cocaine reward in inducible Tat transgenic mice.

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One Part of Football Helmets Especially Linked to Concussion

Drugs.com

MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 -- Newfangled designs intended to make football helmets more protective have overlooked one key component, a new study suggests.Nearly a third of concussions in pro football involve impacts to the facemask, a part of the.

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Prevent Fungal Diseases in the Workplace

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

As part of Fungal Disease Awareness Week, we are highlighting fungal diseases that can affect workers. Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), blastomycosis, and histoplasmosis are fungal diseases caused by fungi that live in the environment in certain regions. Infections are caused by breathing in fungal spores that get into the air. Some jobs and work activities that disturb soil in areas where the fungi live can release fungal spores into the air and put workers at higher risk.

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Bridging science and humanity: How systems thinking should shape clinical trial execution

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Applying a systems thinking approach can create improvements in scientific integrity, operational feasibility and scalability.

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Leveraging Offshore Excellence: Contact Centers in India & the Philippines

thought leadership

As the pharmaceutical landscape in the Japan and Asia-Pacific (JAPAC) region continues to evolve, the demand for efficient, high-quality medical information (MI) services has never been greater. Our offshore contact centers in India and the Philippines offer pharmaceutical companies an unparalleled blend of innovation, customer excellence, and cost efficiency.