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Mike Wood
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13 Oct 05
The prevalence of diabetes, in particular type 2 diabetes, is increasing worldwide. Type 2 diabetes increases with age, but recently has been affecting much younger individuals. In the UK, diabetes prevalence has doubled over the last 12-15 years, and is set to double again over a similar timeframe. The prevalence of diabetes in the UK is now, on average, 3.3%, though many patients are undiagnosed.
CSF Medical
10 Oct 05
Bristol-Myers Squibb was named today as one of the 10 Best Companies for Working Mothers by Working Mother magazine. This is the eighth consecutive year that the company has been listed in the ranking of the 100 Best Companies, and the fifth year in a row Bristol-Myers Squibb has been named a Top 10 company.
Submitted Press Release
29 Sep 05
On Wednesday 22nd June, PharmiWeb Solutions and Microsoft brought together a senior group of sales and marketing professionals, to discuss how software and e-business based solutions can deliver competitive advantage for the pharmaceutical organisation.
Colin Williams
23 Sep 05
Pharma Sales World 2005 will provide delegates with a unique opportunity to gain critical business information about how Europe’s leading pharma companies are addressing the challenge of improving sales force effectiveness. The conference will highlight the issues of accessibility, emerging customer bases, market changes in the next decade, sales force size and structure, targeting and segmentation, the new breed of representative, data acquisition, training and development, customer relationshi
Hannah Reading
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23 Sep 05
Fractures resulting from osteoporosis are widely recognised as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population. It has been estimated that approximately 310,000 osteoporotic fractures occur annually in the UK, with a consequent cost to the health service of ÂŁ1.7 billion.
CSF Medical
20 Sep 05
On Friday 16th September, before a glittering audience of local business Champions, Exco was awarded the highly acclaimed prize of Small Business of the Year 2005.
Sarah Eadon
06 Sep 05
Any nurse can start a business, including two-year graduates and diploma nurses. No advance degrees are necessary unless your business includes diagnosing and treating medical problems. State nurse practice acts do no prohibit a nurse from starting up their own business as an Independent Nurse Contractor.
Mericle RN Staffing LLC
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05 Sep 05
Epilepsy is characterised by a tendency to experience unprovoked seizures and is one of the most common neurological disorders. Over 2% of the population will experience a seizure at some time in their life, and recurrent unprovoked seizures will require treatment in approximately one-in-200 people at any given time. Treatment of epilepsy remains important in helping to reduce the psychological and social sequelae which follow on from uncontrolled seizures.
CSF Medical
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22 Aug 05
It is often forgotten that until the late 1950s there was no treatment for schizophrenia, or for that matter, any other severe enduring mental illness. The majority of patients admitted to asylum care never left: hence the peak occupancy of 150,000 reported in the UK in 1955. As an interesting comparison, this is twice the current UK prison population.
CSF Medical
18 Aug 05
According to LeadDiscovery's recent feature report, Pain Therapeutics 2005, about one and a half billion people suffer from moderate to severe chronic pain worldwide, driving the market for analgesics to nearly $23 billion in 2004. Many companies are investing heavily in the development of new pain therapeutics, even more so now with the recent problems to have hit the Cox-II inhibitors. Calcium channel blockers stepped into the spotlight at the end of last year with the FDA approval of Elan's Z
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Worth an estimated $35 billion in 2003, analysts predict that the sale of oncology therapeutics will grow to $60 billion by 2010. Targeted therapeutics represent one of the most exciting new developments in the field of oncology and include angiogenesis inhibitors; apoptosis stimulators and; signal transduction inhibitors. Apoptosis stimulators lead by Genta's Genesense are particularly appealing. Canadian researchers are focusing on a stimulator of apoptosis known as pancratistatin. This molecu
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Parkinson's disease drug revenues grew an impressive 17% across the seven major markets to reach $1.7 billion in 2003. Despite the commercial success associated with this therapy area, currently available treatments focus on levodopa which replaces the loss of striatal dopamine, the hall mark of Parkinson's disease, rather than targeting disease progression. The efficacy of levodopa eventually declines in most patients and new therapies with disease modifying activity are urgently required. A gr
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Hypertension continues to represent a highly prevalent clinical problem affecting 190 million people in the 7 major pharmaceutical markets. This therapeutic area is also a highly lucrative field for pharmaceutical companies with sales exceeding $30 billion in 2003. Despite the improved efficacy and tolerability of the angiotensin receptor blocker class led by valsartan, physicians remain frustrated by the lack of efficacy of antihypertensive agents and the current trend is towards the use of com
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Earlier in 2005, LeadDiscovery published an in depth report on the development of the novel anti-cancer class, the HDAC inhibitors. As this class advances with therapeutic candidates now entering phase II trials, companies are seeking to optimize therapeutic margins by targeting specific isoforms of histone deacetylase that are involved in tumor progression. In a recent NEJM study Prof. Peter Barnes and colleagues demonstrates that the inhibition of HDAC2 could introduce airway risks, possibly e
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
The overlapping fields of angiogenesis and growth factor biology represent two extensively investigated areas of modern day oncology and the recent success of Avastin, a monoclonal antibody that binds to and neutralizes one such growth factor, VEGF has not only resulted in the introduction of an effective clinical tool for the treatment of cancer but it also helped spark a wave of optimism in the angiogenesis inhibitor arena. As a result companies are evaluating new approaches to target VEGF in
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Rheumatoid arthritis affects an estimated 2.1 million Americans. The initial success of biologics that neutralize TNF alpha mean that these therapeutics dominate the US and European rheumatoid arthritis markets. Although the development of biologics has revolutionized treatment of rheumatoid arthritis therapies remain far from optimal. Since biologics are peptidic in nature they must be administered by injection. Moreover, multiple dosing is required and this can be disruptive to the patient.
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
It is estimated that there are more than 38 million people in the seven major markets with diabetes and this figure is set to rise to 50 million in 2012. Despite the presence of well established treatments of diabetes significant unmet needs remain driving a large body of research and development activity. The highlighted JCI paper described work by Lilly researchers advancing FGF-21 or its mimics as a novel therapeutic candidates for the treatment of diabetes.
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Although cytotoxics agents represent a cornerstone of oncology, toxicity and drug resistance has driven the development of targeted anticancer therapies. The current study highlights a novel antimitotic agent, PTX-2. This molecule, like the Taxol and Taxotere, blocks the cell cycle in late mitosis channelling cells into an apoptotic program. In direct contrast to Taxol and Taxotere, PTX-2 targets cells with p53 mutations; the plant alkaloids on the other hand are relatively insensitive in such c
LeadDiscovery
18 Aug 05
Despite the cardiovascular risks that have recently emerged following prolonged treatment with COX-2 inhibitors, this class of drug continues to receive interest as an approach to chemoprevention. Celebrex, which was approved in 1998 for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) has been shown to reduce the development of precancerous colorectal polyps by 28%. Data recently highlighted in the FASEB journal suggests that at least part of the efficacy of celebrex may be related to the
LeadDiscovery
15 Aug 05
Clinical Research Academy has decided to implement a sure-fire way of finding top candidates for Clinical Research Associate (CRA) posts – by running a Selection and Assessment Day. The first was held at the end of July in Marlow in the UK.
Kieran.Engels
06 Aug 05
While brain cancer may be one of the rarer cancers, the outlook for those diagnosed is bleak. For patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) - the most aggressive form of brain cancer - average survival is approximately one year. However the recent supplementary approval of temozolomide for use in first-line treatment may represent the first step in a more 'personalized' approach to GBM.
Datamonitor
05 Aug 05
Novartis has received a positive opinion from a European committee recommending marketing authorization be granted to Xolair for severe persistent allergic asthma. Although Xolair has delivered impressive results, the restrictive label, together with high treatment costs, will limit its sales potential in the EU, meaning Novartis, and partner Genentech, may prefer to focus on the US market.
Datamonitor
05 Aug 05
Few who love its taste associate it with good health, but recent reports that a confectionary company was seriously examining the pharmaceutical potential of chocolate achieved widespread international media coverage.
Dr Faiz Kermani
05 Aug 05
This alert is brought to you by LeadDiscovery and concerns today's announcement by Celera Genomics that clinical evaluation of their HDAC inhibitor CRA-024781 is about to commence. The press release is featured on today's edition of DailyUpdates-Oncology.
LeadDiscovery
03 Aug 05
This PharmaReports alert (29th June, 2005) from LeadDiscovery announces the most recent report of pain to join the company's porfolio of pain reports. This report, Pain Therapeutics, 2005, provides detailed analysis and information concerning the global market for pain therapeutics, R&D pipelines and company involvement in this field.
LeadDiscovery
02 Aug 05
The worldwide analgesic market was worth $38 billion during the year 2002 and is expected to nearly double to $75 billion by the year 2010. The vanilloid receptor TRPV1 (VR1) has become an attractive molecular target for multiple sub-types of pain. Abbott researchers have recently described the development of A-425619
LeadDiscovery
01 Aug 05
Acute neurodegeneration caused by stroke or trauma as well as more chronic disease resulting from Alzheimers’s disease or Parkinson’s disease has inflammatory and direct neurotoxic components. Bayer Healthcare researchers have developed a compound with anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective active resulting is therapeutic activity in models of head injury and Parkinson’s disease
LeadDiscovery
28 Jul 05
Each year, 750,000 strokes occur in the US and resultant deaths account for stroke being one of the top three causes of mortality as well as a major economic burden on healthcare systems. One candidate molecular target for stroke is 20-HETE. Taisho Pharmaceutical have developed a potent and selective 20-HETE synthesis inhibitor, TS-011 for the treatment of stroke.
LeadDiscovery
28 Jul 05
Tourists love France and why not you… to work and live in France.
Claire Armstrong i3 Pharma Resourcing
