Diseases &Amp; Conditions News
- Amorfix reports new finding for vCJD blood screening assay and provides corporate update Friday, September 12, 2008 @ 12:00PM Amorfix Life Sciences, a company focused on treatments and diagnostics for brain wasting diseases, today reported that its EP-vCJD Blood Screening Assay can detect sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease prions using brain material spiked into human plasma at the same sensitivity.
- (AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-11 09:35 TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Mergers and acquisitions highlights to 09:20 BST Thursday, September 11, 2008 @ 4:56AM2008-09-11 09:16:55 INTERVIEW-Premier Farnell CEO eyes further Asia expansion
- INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Wednesday, September 10, 2008 @ 2:46PMMINING & QUARRYING: Mittal projects face 50% cost overruns Land acquisition, mining lease major hurdles.
- Five New Studies at Major Medical Meeting Further Demonstrate Clinical Experience for JANUVIA(TM) (sitagliptin) Tuesday, September 9, 2008 @ 8:49AMNew data analyses presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) showed initial combination therapy with the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, JANUVIA(TM) (sitagliptin), and metformin provided improvements in blood sugar levels (as measured by A1C(1)) over two years of treatment and was generally well tolerated. Also presented at the ...
- Five New Studies at Major Medical Meeting Further Demonstrate Clinical Experience for JANUVIA(TM) (sitagliptin) Tuesday, September 9, 2008 @ 8:00AM WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.----New data analyses presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes showed initial combination therapy with the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, JANUVIA™ , and metformin provided improvements in blood sugar levels over two years of treatment and was generally well tolerated.
- Researchers Identify Drugs that Enhance Exercise Endurance Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 12:15PMResearchers have identified two drugs that mimic many of the physiological effects of exercise. The drugs increase the ability of cells to burn fat and are the first compounds that have been shown to enhance exercise endurance.
- Researchers identify drugs that enhance exercise endurance Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 12:08PMHoward Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified two drugs that mimic many of the physiological effects of exercise. The drugs increase the ability of cells to burn fat and are the first compounds that have been shown to enhance exercise endurance.
