Novartis has revealed thee results of its pivotal Phase III FUTURE 2 study of secukinumab in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with majority of patients showing sustained improvements over the course of one year…
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Arthritis drug could restore skin pigmentation in Vitiligo patients
Skin pigmentation lost due to vitiligo could be restored using an FDA approved is a rheumatoid arthritis drug, scientists have shown through a new study. According to dermatologists at Yale School of…
Drug for currently untreatable form of blindness being trialled in UK
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the most common forms of macular degeneration that affects around 500,000 people over the age of 50 in the UK alone doesn’t have any cure….
High blood pressure medication may stop drug and alcohol addiction
High blood pressure medication could help drug and alcohol addicts to get rid of their addiction, a new research involving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drugs have established through a series…
Malaria drug breakthrough holds promise of single dose treatment
Researchers have long been trying to develop treatment and vaccines for Malaria and a similar effort by researchers at University of Dundee has resulted into development of an antimalarial compound that holds…
RedHill Biopharma’s H. pylori drug demonstrats 89.4% efficacy in eradicating infection
RedHill Biopharma announced the results of its phase III clinical trials of its RHB-105 for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacterial infection. According to the announcement, the drug demonstrated 89.4…
Scientists identify potential new therapeutic for osteoporosis
Scientists have identified a potential new therapeutic approach that could help in treatment of osteoporosis and though the findings are still preliminary, researchers are optimistic about its potential in treating bone loss,…
Psoriasis drug ixekizumab promising as 90% patients show improvement in trials
A trial of the new psoriasis drug ixekizumab has showed promising results with 90 per cent of patients showing signs of improvement with nearly 40 per cent of people showing a complete…
Heartburn drugs said to increase heart attack risk
Researchers have revealed based on findings of a large data-mining study that some of the most commonly used heartburn drugs hold the potential of elevating risk of heart attack. Proton-pump inhibitors, or…
Pfizer’s Ibrance shows huge promise in phase 3 trial
Pfizer has revealed results of phase 3 PALOMA-3 study wherein it said that palbociclib in combination with fulvestrant showed promising results and was superior to treatment with a standard of care by…
Cancer drug efficacy increased using device that unboiled the egg
Researchers in Australia have used the vortex fluidic device – the same device using which researchers unboiled an egg – to produce a four-fold increase in efficacy of carboplatin, a commonly used…
Home-brewing your own morphine, other drugs could soon be a reality
Using the age-old idea of employing yeast to convert sugar into alcohol, researchers have formulated key steps using which sugar-fed yeast can be turned into a microbial factory to churn out therapeutic…
New treatment shows promise for cystic fibrosis
A new treatment involving a combination of lumacaftor-ivacaftor is showing promise against the most common genetic cause of cystic fibrosis as the therapy improves lung function and lowers the rate of pulmonary…
Cocaine use can now be tested in fingerprints using ambient mass spectrometry
A novel technique of detecting cocaine abuse through a simple fingerprint has been developed by researchers from multiple universities from UK and the Netherlands paving way for a secure, non-invasive and hygienic…
Fingerprint based test detects cocaine use
A multi-university research has culminated into development of a new method for detecting cocaine use that is not only non-invasive but is also hygienic. Led by the University of Surrey, a team…