Diabetes

Nov 14, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3575" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] World Diabetes Day[/caption] Caring for Diabetes involves family too. Education and awareness play the most important role in early diagnosis and management. World Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14 November each year.

Nov 13, 2018

The pancreatic cancer drug of GlaxoSmithKline moves to phase 1 The experimental drug, GSK095 of GlaxoSmithKline is made to work in order with a checkpoint that are inhibiting medicines in the empowerment of the immune system to introduce a more aggressive attack against tumours than with checkpoint inhibitors alone...

Nov 02, 2018

Did you know that Calciphylaxis, or calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA), although affects merely 1 to 4 % of patients undergoing dialysis, has a dismal prognosis with up to 80% mortality? In addition to numerous comorbidities which affect the majority of dialysis patients, Calciphylaxis is a painful and often fatal...

Aug 31, 2018

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for th...

Aug 31, 2018

Use of Placebo is Necessary Only in Certain Types of Oncology Trials: USFDA In a new draft guidance released, the USFDA is questioning whether or not the use of a placebo in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial is always necessary. The FDA said sometimes the use of a placebo can present practical or ethical co...

Jan 02, 2018

British scientists looking forward to treat Alzheimer’s disease through diabetes drug A group of British scientists are looking for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in an unlikely source i.e. a drug used for treating Type 2 Diabetes. The team, from Lancaster University, has reported that an experimental three-p...

Nov 15, 2017

One of the top five risks for human health includes poor air quality, while the others are blood pressure, smoking tobacco, diabetes, and obesity. The poor air quality has contributed to around 8% of deaths around the world, according to a 2015 statistic and long-term exposure has created health hazard risks such as...

May 18, 2017

Key Humira patent goes down via IPR—but biosims makers shouldn't celebrate yet One of AbbVie’s Humira patents bit the dust late Tuesday, marking a win for biosimilars makers. But they still have a long way to go before they’ll really be able to celebrate. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appea...

Apr 13, 2017

Cancer, diabetes and eczema star in 2017 top-launch list Launch prognostications are getting more attention than ever as they come out with “Drugs to Watch” list, and the highlights of different drugs shows what might work this year. By 2021, some of the drugs in the list are expected to bring in $16 billion, shared...

Mar 21, 2017

Novartis heart-failure med Entresto cuts A1c, insulin starts in diabetics Novartis has been mining a pivotal study of Entresto, its heart-failure med, for more insights ever since it was first published in 2014. Now, a new analysis shows that Entresto beat an older med at reducing blood sugar levels in heart failure...