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Free clinical trial health check to bring drugs to market faster

Drug Discovery World

A new free service will offer insights in under ten days to sponsors conducting clinical trials, identifying potential ‘zombie trials’ and providing actionable recommendations for failing trials. The Health Check and Trial Rescue Service is an initiative of data software and services company Phesi. The service will use the company’s AI-driven Trial Accelerator Platform to assess protocols in terms of patient view, country view, site view and investigator view.

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New £30m Initiative to Address Global Threat by Accelerating the Pace of Antimicrobial Innovation

Drug Discovery Today

Pioneering partnership to drive development of new tests and treatments to tackle deadly antimicrobial resistance, which could otherwise kill 10 million a year by 2050

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This week in drug discovery (16-20 October)  

Drug Discovery World

News round-up for 16-20 October by DDW Digital Content Editor Diana Spencer. To celebrate DDW’s first Turning Science into Business Summit on ‘Cancer research opportunities and advances’, the news round-up this week highlights the latest developments in oncology drug discovery. The top stories: DDW Cancer Research Summit: Strategies to get to market faster The DDW Turning Science into Business Summit, ‘Cancer research opportunities and advances’ will feature experts and thought leaders in cancer

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Health Literacy Month: How industry communication can impact patient health literacy

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Since 1999, October has been designated as Health Literacy Month , a month dedicated to promoting patient-centricity in healthcare communications across the industry. Health literacy refers to a person’s ability to find, understand, and use health-related services and make informed decisions for themselves and others.

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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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New podcast: Drug discovery success stories

Drug Discovery World

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “Drug discovery success stories”, which covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 3 – Summer 2022 of DDW. They are called “ Global pharma start-up success stories ”, and “ Excitement at rectal cancer immunotherapy breakthrough ”. In the first article, Lu Rahman selects some interesting global start-ups pushing the boundaries in drug discovery, from AI to £D deep-learning research to biologics.

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CVS Pulling Popular Cold Meds From Shelves After Report Deems Them to Be Useless

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- CVS Health plans to pull cold medications that contain phenylephrine from its store shelves after federal regulators determined recently that the decongestant doesn’t work. Oral phenylephrine is an active ingredient.

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Just 2 Servings of Red Meat Per Week Raises Your Diabetes Risk

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THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Think twice about ordering that double cheeseburger, salami on rye or juicy T-bone. Just two servings of red meat a week -- processed or unprocessed -- can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes by 62%, according to a new.

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New podcast explores Sengenics’ i-Ome Discovery Microarrays

Drug Discovery World

The latest sponsored DDW Sitting Down With podcast features Professor Jonathan Blackburn, Chief Scientific Officer of Sengenics, who discusses the advantages of functional protein microarrays, challenges to overcome for biomarker discovery, Sengenics ’ new i-Ome Discovery chip, and more. As CSO, Professor Blackburn heads the R&D and product development strategy.

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Put These Foods on Your Grocery List for Better Vision

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- Nutrition is important for your whole body, including those two small organs through which you look at the world. The same diet that’s good for your heart and the rest of your body will also help your eyes, according.

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Drug discovery success stories

Drug Discovery World

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “Drug discovery success stories”, which covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 3 – Summer 2022 of DDW. They are called “ Global pharma start-up success stories ”, and “ Excitement at rectal cancer immunotherapy breakthrough ”. In the first article, Lu Rahman selects some interesting global start-ups pushing the boundaries in drug discovery, from AI to £D deep-learning research to biologics.

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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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Amazon to Test Drones to Deliver Prescriptions to Your Door

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Soon, you may be able to step out on your front porch and wait for your prescription medication to drop from the sky. On Wednesday, Amazon Pharmacy announced that it is starting to test speedy prescription drug delivery.

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Emotional scars: stigma with female adult acne

Drug Target Review

Acne, a common skin condition that affects millions of people worldwide, has long been associated with physical discomfort and self-esteem challenges. However, new research presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress 2023 in Berlin, Germany, has highlighted a previously underestimated aspect of acne’s impact on individuals: its profound influence on social perception.

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Living Alone Raises Americans' Cancer Risk by Nearly a Third

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THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- People who live alone have a greater risk of dying from cancer, a new study warns. Researchers from the American Cancer Society showed that U.S. adults who live alone had a 32% higher risk of cancer death than those who.

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Overriding TinyMCE’s Default Alt Text Validation in Optimizely

Perficient: Drug Development

Adding Alt Text to your Images in Optimizely When developing a site using Optimizely, it is important to keep accessibility in mind. A common solution that I’ve found helpful is to extend the ImageData class from EpiServer.Core and add a property for Alt Text. This concept is demonstrated in the Alloy Project and has been explained further in the blog post ‘ Episerver and Alternate Text for Images in the TinyMCE Rich Text Editor ‘ by Dylan McCurry.

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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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Olympian Mary Lou Retton Suffers Setback in Battle With Rare Form of Pneumonia

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton has suffered a "scary setback" as she fights a rare type of pneumonia while in the intensive care unit of a hospital, her family said Wednesday. The 55-year-old, who lives in the.

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Merck cancer drug deal caps pharma investment influx into ‘ADC’ field

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

With the alliance, Merck joins Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Gilead in staking major bets on the potential for antibody-drug conjugates to reshape cancer treatment.

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Cache Valley Virus: Another Mosquito-Borne Illness Making Inroads in U.S.

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- A potentially deadly infection carried by mosquitoes may be more prevalent than once thought, U.S. health officials report. Named the Cache Valley virus after the Utah area in which it was first found in 1956, it has.

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Lib Dem MP weighs in on British scientific innovation

Drug Discovery Today

Munira Wilson visits engineering and laboratory show organisers for National Manufacturing Day

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Kids Still Getting Injured After Swallowing High-Powered Magnets

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- Despite warnings and public education campaigns, kids continue to suffer injuries from swallowing small but strong magnets, according to a new study. Children are also inserting high-powered, rare-earth balls into their.

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How Centralized Prescription Fulfillment Allows Pharmacists to Better Help Patients

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from Melanie Christie, VP of Product Management at CoverMyMeds. Melanie discusses how the nationwide shortage of pharmacy technicians affects pharmacists. She argues that centralized prescription fulfillment can provide pharmacists with more time to care for patients while also reducing medication errors and accelerating time-to-treatment.

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Lesbian & Gay Teens Have Twice the Odds for Binge-Eating Disorders

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Stigma can take a toll on lesbian, gay and bisexual teens, leading to high rates of binge-eating disorders, researchers say. Compared to their non-LGBTQ peers, lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are more than twice as likely.

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Challenging prehistoric gender roles: Research finds that women were hunters, too

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Anthropologists challenge the traditional view of men as hunters and women as gatherers in prehistoric times. Their research reveals evidence of gender equality in roles and suggests that women were physically capable of hunting. The study sheds light on the gender bias in past research and calls for a more nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles.

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Menopause Bring New Risks for Women's Heart Health

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- The risk of having heart disease grows as a woman ages, so women need to be familiar with their heart disease risk factors, the American Heart Association (AHA) says. Menopause factors into this risk in several different.

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Women with a heart healthy diet in midlife are less likely to report cognitive decline later

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Women with diets during middle age designed to lower blood pressure were about 17 percent less likely to report memory loss and other signs of cognitive decline decades later, a new study finds.

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A New Dad's Postpartum Depression Can Be Tough on His Kids

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FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- It’s well known that mothers can suffer postpartum depression, a condition that affects not only their well-being but also their child’s development. Now, new research finds that fathers can also experience.

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Ancient sea monster remains reveal oldest mega-predatory pliosaur

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur -- a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs. The findings are rare and add new knowledge to the evolution of plesiosaurs.

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Extra Antibiotic With Hip, Knee Replacement Won't Prevent Infections: Study

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Millions of people undergo joint replacement surgery every year. To prevent infection, doctors often give them a second antibiotic -- but new research suggests this can backfire. Adding a second antibiotic at the time of.

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Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Turning unused waste from food production into clean energy: Researchers are using chicken feathers to make fuel cells more cost-effective and sustainable.

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What Keeps Dr. Anthony Fauci Awake at Night

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- When the pandemic hit, Dr. Anthony Fauci saw his "worst nightmare" realized. Now, a different worry keeps him up at night: that humanity will forget the lessons learned.

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Dingoes given 'almost-human' status in pre-colonial Australia

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research suggesting that dingoes were buried -- and even domesticated -- by First Nations people prior to European colonization.

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Better Health Care Access Is Helping People With Down Syndrome Live Longer

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- Americans with Down syndrome have a critical lifeline in Medicaid insurance, new research confirms.

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New tentative approval for Sandoz drug sugammadex sodium

Drug Patent Watch

Sugammadex sodium is the generic ingredient in two branded drugs marketed by Msd Sub Merck, Aspiro, Mylan, and Sandoz and, and is included in four NDAs. There is one patent… The post New tentative approval for Sandoz drug sugammadex sodium appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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A Tropical Skin Infection Spread by Sand Flies Is Spreading in the U.S.

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Oct. 20, 2023 -- Climate change is bringing diseases once considered tropical afflictions to the United States, and new research warns that a parasite spread by sand flies may be the latest to join this growing list. The Leishmania parasite.

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New tentative approval for MYLAN drug sugammadex sodium

Drug Patent Watch

Sugammadex sodium is the generic ingredient in two branded drugs marketed by Msd Sub Merck, Aspiro, Mylan, and Sandoz and, and is included in four NDAs. There is one patent… The post New tentative approval for MYLAN drug sugammadex sodium appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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