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New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating techniques at the Orce sites (Baza basin, Granada, Spain) place the human remains found in this area as the oldest in Europe, at approximately 1.3 million years old.

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Revolution Medicines firms up Phase 3 trial plans with latest cancer drug data

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Updated results show the biotech's RAS inhibitor shrank pancreatic tumors in 20% to 25% of study participants, but with high rates of side effects like rash and nausea.

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Widespread practice among athletes harms both performance and health

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Drastically cutting back on caloric intake to lose weight ahead of competition is commonplace among athletes. However, this type of 'dieting' doesn't just diminish performances, it can also compromise their immune systems.

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Lexeo gene therapy shows signs of heart benefit in small study

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company claims the results support exploring the possibility of an accelerated approval, citing flexibility by FDA officials in reviewing rare disease gene therapies.

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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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New research demonstrates potential for increasing effectiveness of popular diabetes, weight-loss drugs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A network of proteins found in the central nervous system could be harnessed to increase the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs, according to new research.

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NASA's Webb investigates eternal sunrises, sunsets on distant world

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening atmosphere. WASP-39 b, a giant planet with a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter, but similar mass to Saturn that orbits a star about 700 light-years away from Earth, is tidally locked to its parent star.

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New Drug Tames Stress Incontinence in Clinical Trial

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- An experimental drug appears to help women deal with stress incontinence, clinical trial data show.The drug, for now dubbed TAS-303, reduced the frequency of leaks related to stress incontinence by about 58%, compared with.

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Cosmic wrestling match

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the night sky: galaxies like our own Milky Way, clusters of galaxies, and even larger aggregations of matter or filaments of gas and dust. How quickly this growth takes place depends, at least in today's universe, on a sort of wrestling match between natural forces: Can dark matter, which holds everything

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Shannen Doherty Dies of Breast Cancer at 53

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Actress Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles in 1990s television hits such as “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed," has died at 53 after a long struggle with breast cancer.In a statement, Doherty's publicist, Leslie Slo.

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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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Scorching storms on distant worlds revealed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international study reveals the extreme atmospheric conditions on the celestial objects, which are swathed in swirling clouds of hot sand amid temperatures of 950C. Using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers set out to capture the weather on a pair of brown dwarfs -- cosmic bodies that are bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

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Some Diabetes Drugs May Lower Dementia Risk

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Some diabetes drugs appear to lower the risk that people with type 2 diabetes will develop dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, a new evidence review says.The risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s is significantly lower in patients t.

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JWST unveils stunning ejecta and CO structures in Cassiopeia A's young supernova

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers announced the latest findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A). These observations of the youngest known core collapse supernova in the Milky Way provide insights into the conditions that lead to the formation and destruction of molecules and dust within supernova ejecta. The study's findings change our understanding of dust formation in the early universe in the galaxies detected by JWST 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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Five Cases of Bird Flu Reported in Colorado Poultry Workers

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Five poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu, state health officials reported Sunday."In coordination with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the State Emergency Operations Center and Centers for.

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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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Early life antibiotic increases risk of asthma: providing clues to a potential prevention adult asthma

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Early exposure to antibiotics can trigger long term susceptibility to asthma, according to new research. Importantly the research team isolated a molecule produced by gut bacteria that in the future could potentially be trialed as a simple treatment, in the form of a dietary supplement, for children at risk of asthma to prevent them developing the disease.

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High cannabigerol hemp extract moderates colitis and modulates the microbiome in an inflammatory bowel disease model [Gastrointestinal, Hepatic, Pulmonary, and Renal]

ASPET

Cannabis sativa L. has a long history of medicinal use, particularly for gastrointestinal diseases. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) report using cannabis to manage their symptoms, despite little data to support the use of cannabis or cannabis products to treat the disease. In this study, we utilize the well-described dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) model of colitis in mice to assess the impact of commercially available, non-euphorigenic, high cannabigerol (CBG) hemp extract (20 mg/mL

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Global Childhood Vaccination Rates Still Haven't Recovered from Pandemic Declines

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- More than four years after the pandemic began, childhood vaccination rates worldwide have yet to recover, a new report shows.The latest data, issued Monday by the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

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What is the medical definition of obesity?

Antidote

Obesity, a condition that impacts 2 out of 5 adults in the United States , has become a significant health concern, both due to the impacts it has on individuals with the condition and the effect it can have on the overall medical system. It is estimated that obesity is responsible for nearly $1.73 billion in excess treatment costs annually, compounded by the fact that individuals with obesity are far more likely to have other conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and osteoarthritis.

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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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Some Youths Still Taking Opioids Months After Surgery

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Many tweens and teens are filling prescriptions for opioids far in advance of surgeries unlikely to be associated with severe pain afterward, a new study says.Worse, a significant minority continue to fill those opioid.

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The Complexity Advantage: Why Advanced Delivery Methods Deter Generic Competition

Drug Patent Watch

The Strategic Advantage of Complex Drug Delivery Systems In the highly competitive pharmaceutical landscape, adopting complex drug delivery systems can […] Source

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Too Little, Too Much: Poor Sleep Linked to Vessel Damage in Those With Diabetes

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Diabetics who sleep too little or too much are more likely to suffer damage to their small blood vessels, a condition that can cause organ damage throughout their bodies.Short sleep duration is tied to a 2.6 times increased.

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Leveraging binding pose metadynamics to optimise target fishing predictions for three diverse ligands and their true targets

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

The ability of binding pose metadynamics to improve the rankings of true targets predicted via pharmacophore mapping was investigated using three diverse ligands and their six true targets. Binding pose metadynamics improved the predicted rankings for four out of the six true targets, while also providing the highest-ranked predictions. Abstract Computational target fishing plays an important role in target identification, particularly in drug discovery campaigns utilizing phenotypic screening.

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Most Americans Think Incontinence, Pelvic Pain after Childbirth is Normal -- It's Not

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- Roughly a month after having her second child, Nicole Gerardi-Lukens suddenly felt pressure in her pelvis that was so intense it sent her to the hospital.When doctors told her bladder had prolapsed — meaning that it had s.

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Translational pharmacokinetic-toxicodynamic model of myelosuppression for dose optimization in combination chemotherapy of capecitabine and oxaliplatin from rats to humans [Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine]

ASPET

XELOX therapy, which comprises capecitabine and oxaliplatin, is the standard first-line chemotherapeutic regimen for colorectal cancer. However, its myelosuppressive effects pose challenges for its clinical management. Mathematical modeling combining pharmacokinetics (PK) and toxicodynamics (TD) is a promising approach for optimizing dosing strategies and reducing toxicity.

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AI Better at Predicting Progression to Alzheimer's Than Standard Care

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 -- An AI program has proven better than doctors at sifting through the telltale signs that indicate who with early dementia will progress to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.AI predicted in 4 cases out of 5 when early d.

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Providing Clarity Regarding the Regulation of Respirators Used in Health Care Settings

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

A Discussion Paper, Streamlining Regulatory Oversight of Respirators Used in Health Care Settings will Improve Worker Protection, was recently published in the National Academy of Medicine’s NAM Perspectives journal by respiratory experts outside of the federal government. This paper highlights continued confusion amongst interested parties including health care organizations and manufacturers seeking approval regarding federal regulations and guidance on the use of air-purifying respirators (AP

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Late Cancer Diagnosis Biggest Health Concern for Most, Poll Shows

Drugs.com

MONDAY, July 15, 2024 — When it comes to health worries, cancer leads the way, a new poll shows. The University of Cambridge poll included 2,000 adults who said their biggest concern is getting diagnosed with cancer when it's too late to treat it. S.

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Legacy SureChEMBL retirement

The ChEMBL-og

Dear SureChEMBL users, About six months ago, we introduced the new version of SureChEMBL. It brought significant improvements in terms of performance and stability, and it also allows us to implement new functionalities. After the survey at the beginning of the year, we prioritised what should be delivered first. You should see the materialisation of our work in the coming months.

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