Cigarette smoking may help fight Parkinson’s disease: Harvard research
Smoking cigarettes may protect humans from neurodegeneration and prevent the accumulation of a key Parkinson’s-associated protein in the brain, new research on mice.
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Neurocine’s mid-stage trial drug cuts schizophrenia severity symptoms
US-based Neurocrine Biosciences’ trial drug for treating schizophrenia reduced the severity of the disease symptoms in a mid-stage study of 210 adult participants.
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Walgreens grabs $100 million from US government for decentralized trials
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the US has bagged a $100 million government funding to expand its clinical.
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‘Strong neutralizing responses’ shown in RSV vaccine trials: Pfizer says
Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine trials on patients aged 18 and older with chronic respiratory diseases show a consistent safety profile and “strong neutralizing responses,”.
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US regulator rejects Lykos’s MDMA therapy, wants more data
Lykos Therapeutics’s ecstasy drug or midomafetamine capsules for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in adults was rejected by the US drug regulatory.
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Merck halts small cell lung cancer immunotherapy drug trial
Merck has stopped an end-stage combination immunotherapy trial for a lung cancer condition, following recommendations of an independent data monitoring committee, which indicated.
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Daiichi Sankyo to pay Merck $170 million for cancer test drug rights
Daiichi Sankyo will pay Merck & Co. Inc., $170 million upfront to bag commercialization and development rights of the latter’s test drug for.
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US regulator allows GSK’s endometrial cancer therapy for expanded use
The US drug regulator has granted permission for expanded use of British pharmaceutical company, GSK Plc’s endometrial cancer drug.
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Adaptimmune’s therapy to treat rare form of cancer gets USFDA nod
UK-based biopharmaceutical company, Adaptimmune Therapeutics Plc, got FDA approval for its cell therapy for treating a rare form of cancer.
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Eli Lilly’s trial weight-loss drug reduces heart failure risk by 38%
Eli Lilly and Company’s Zepbound or trizepatide injection to treat obesity reduces the risk of heart failure, hospitalisation and cardiovascular death by 38%,.