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3 months, 1 week ago

THIS weight-loss drug becomes first to gain approval for treating sleep apnea; details here

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly's weight-loss treatment, Zepbound, for obstructive sleep apnea, making it the first drug greenlighted to directly treat patients with the common sleeping disorder, as reported by Reuters.' “The regulator approved the drug for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea in adults with obesity,” the company said. "Too often, obstructive sleep …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

US overdose deaths continue downward trend, giving experts hope

Al Jazeera

Experts aren’t sure what is causing fewer overdose deaths, but they are hopeful the decline is sustainable. Drug overdose deaths in the United States appear to continue to decline, giving experts hope that the nation is seeing sustained improvement in what remains an epidemic. Some 97,000 people died of a drug overdose in the 12-month period that ended June 30, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, US study finds

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. Some early research has suggested that smoking fentanyl is somewhat less deadly than injecting it, and any reduction in injection-related overdose deaths is a positive, said the study’s lead author, Lauren Tanz. But “both injection and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Thorny clause in ripening India-European Free Trade Association deal may hit generic drug industry

The Hindu

A clause in a draft free trade agreement text being negotiated between India and the European Free Trade Association — Switzerland, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway — could delay access to affordable, generic versions of patented drugs in India by a minimum of six years, according to documents viewed by The Hindu. A leaked draft of the Trade and Economic Partnership …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Foreigners run drug smuggling ring in Himachal, Nigerians top list: Police data

Hindustan Times

Half of the total foreign nationals arrested for involvement in illegal drugs smuggling in Himachal Pradesh between 2017 and 2021 are from African nation Nigeria, according to the state police data. “We are taking steps to expedite their trials.” According to the narcotics control wing of state police, most of the Nigerian nationals arrested for supplying drugs to Himachal were …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Britain becomes first country to approve Merck's Covid-19 pill molnupiravir

India Today

Britain on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic. Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency recommended the drug, molnupiravir, for use in people with mild to moderate COVID-19 and at …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Column: Ivermectin, another bogus COVID treatment, becomes a darling of conspiracy-mongers

LA Times

The anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine has been shown not to be effective in treating COVID-19. Like anti-vaxxers, ivermectin advocates claim that information about the drug is being “suppressed,” generally by agents of Big Pharma; the core idea is that because drug companies can’t make very much money out of a drug available in generic form, they prefer to foist vaccines, on which …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Indian biomedical startup Elucidata raises $5 million in pre-series A funding round

Firstpost

Elucidata, an Indian Biomedical data management firm, on 28 January 2021 announced that it has raised $5 million in the pre-Series A funding round. The new funding round was captained by IvyCap Ventures followed by participants Hyperplane Venture Capital, a Bolton-based seed stage firm and a few other angel investors. In this scenario, it gives us immense pleasure to collaborate …

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4 years, 3 months ago

No emergency approval for vaccine maker SII, Bharat Biotech yet, drug regulator analysing data | Key points

India TV News

Vaccine makers Serum Institue of India and Bharat Biotech, who are expecting a nod for approval of emergency use, the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation's Subject Expert Committee on Wednesday said that it was still doing the analyses of the additional data and information submitted by SII and Bharat Biotech. SII, Bharat Biotech awaits emergency approval | Key points The …

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4 years, 9 months ago

UK Covid-19 trial ends hydroxychloroquine study because there’s no evidence the drug benefits patients

CNN

CNN — Researchers in the United Kingdom have put an abrupt stop to an arm of their Covid-19 trial that involves the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The Recovery trial, a large UK-based trial investigating potential coronavirus treatments, has stopped including hydroxychloroquine in its study due to there being “no evidence of benefit,” researchers announced on Friday. “We reviewed the data and …

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7 years, 2 months ago

Punjab's drug menace: Secrecy renders women substance abusers 'invisible', stigma makes treatment near impossible

Firstpost

Despite the easy availability of drugs in Punjab, empirical data available on drug use seems to indicate that women appear to have resisted the urge to use drugs. To understand why there was a patent absence of women in drug use statistics in Punjab, we conducted a series of interviews with judges, policemen, prison officials, doctors and social workers. The …

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7 years, 5 months ago

How CNN reported on Nuedexta

CNN

CNN — CNN has released an investigation exposing the inappropriate and potentially fraudulent use of a popular nursing home drug called Nuedexta. Nursing home citations CNN used keywords “Nuedexta,” “pseudobulbar affect,” “PBA,” “uncontrollable laughing,” “uncontrollable crying,” “Avanir” and “dextromethorphan-quinidine” to analyze data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and identified cases where Nuedexta use had resulted in a …

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8 years, 9 months ago

Cancer drug developed using AI shrinks tumours by a quarter

Wired

A drug developed by combining artificial intelligence with traditional drug development methods has shown early promise in the treatment of some cancer patients in trials. The development of the drug effectively began back in 2009, when the startup bought cancer tissue samples from more than 1,000 cancer patients at various medical schools from across the US. For now, Berg's concentrating …

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9 years, 2 months ago

Why the American overdose epidemic is primarily affecting white people

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The rate of white Americans dying annually from …

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10 years, 3 months ago

Prolific Prescribers Of Controlled Substances Face Medicare Scrutiny

NPR

Prolific Prescribers Of Controlled Substances Face Medicare Scrutiny Enlarge this image toggle caption ProPublica/NPR ProPublica/NPR Despite a national crackdown on prescription drug abuse, doctors churned out an ever-larger number of prescriptions for the most-potent controlled substances to Medicare patients, new data show. Even taking into account an increase in the number of Medicare enrollees, the prescribing rate rose slightly for …

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10 years, 3 months ago

Indian labs deleted test results for US drugs, FDA documents show

Live Mint

Washington/Mumbai: In a lab in an Indian village during the height of monsoon season in 2011, a technician hit a delete button—a keystroke that would have consequences three years later. Asked whether felony prosecutions were possible for any of the 12 companies with plants in India on the banned list, Goodin said: “Firms unable to demonstrate control over their processes …

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10 years, 9 months ago

Food and drug safety heads online

China Daily

In a government bid to ease consumers' concerns over product safety an online data center will be launched in Beijing to provide safety information on food, drugs, health care items and cosmetics. The data center will be available online by the end of this year for the public as well as corporations and enforcement authorities, said Zhang Zhikuan, director of …

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