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FDA Approves Nitisinone for Treatment of Alkaptonuria

Drug Topics

Patients were enrolled at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center between April 2005 and March 2006, with 20 people receiving no treatment and 20 receiving nitisinone once daily. All patients were aged 18 to 65 years of age, except for 1 who was older than 65 years.

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Diabetes Risk Reduction Practices Low for Women With Gestational Diabetes

Drug Topics

They included patients from a large regional hospital in northern Victoria, Australia, who attended the diabetes center from July 2004 to July 2005 for the management of gestational diabetes. The pilot study was aimed at determining diabetes risk reduction behavior when achieving a healthy weight and being physically active.

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Mass spectrometry software can link different data types

European Pharmaceutical Review

Integrative workflows combining IMS data from LC-MS and MS imaging enable large-scale metabolomics and lipidomics research by spectral preprocessing, feature detection and various options for compound identification for thousands of samples in parallel. The latest advances in the MZmine 3 have been published in Nature Biotechnology.

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The future of medical cannabis development in Europe

European Pharmaceutical Review

While this is essential in the interrogation of novel compounds for which we know very little about their efficacy and safety, it is also true that some biomedical research is highly wasteful. 3 Moreover, some studies have suggested that co-administration of these compounds can modulate the effects of one another at a receptor level.

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Will Honey and Chocolate Ease Your Cough?

The People's Pharmacy

It is rich in phenolic compounds that have antioxidant activity ( Kavanaugh et al, Food Chemistry, Jan. Research in guinea pigs shows that the cacao compound theobromine can suppress the cough reflex ( Usmani et al, FASEB Journal , Feb. What Is Manuka Honey? Manuka honey is from New Zealand. 30, 2019 ). 16, 2017 ).

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

With alpha particles, you must be very careful how the drug is made to ensure that the compound remains stable between manufacturing and use. Following his graduate studies, Dr Hoppin was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Research Center Jülich, Center for Electronics in Germany from 2003 to 2005.

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Pharmacies Selling PSE: Remember to Train Employees and Self-Certify

The FDA Law Blog

Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced that People’s Rx, a local chain operating five retail pharmacies and a compounding laboratory in the Austin area, agreed to pay $200,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”). By Larry K. Houck — Last week the U.S. 21 U.S.C. §