Features

30 Nov 05

Dronedarone, a new Class III multi-channel blocking anti-arrhythmic drug currently in Phase III development by Sanofi-Aventis for the prevention of atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL) may help fill the unmet need for a safe pharmacologic treatment that effectively controls atrial fibrillation, cardiologists said this month. Sanofi-Aventis presented new data on dronedarone at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) annual scientific sessions held in Dallas.
Olwen Glynn Owen - PharmiWeb Field Reporter

22 Nov 05

Caution: Your CV is your personal data. My advice as a recruiter, with many years experience in the clinical research industry, would be to take care where you send your CV and make sure your data is treated with the respect it deserves! The important thing is to be selective.
Linda Eden-Ellis

31 Oct 05

For those new to the industry, a quick round up of the common abbreviations and what they stand for might be useful....
Spencer Marsh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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