A new study published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling reports on a new advance that can help overcome the obstacles that scientists face in using the potential of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic medicine in developing new and effective drugs. Andreas Bender and colleagues explain that TCM has made key contributions to modern medicine. In the world's largest international clinical trial, for instance, scientists concluded that ...
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Results of a study demonstrate that computer models can predict how HIV patients whose drug therapy is failing will respond to a new treatment. The results were published online in the iJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy/i. Crucially for patients in poorer countries, the models do not require the results of expensive drug resistance tests to make their predictions. The study also showed that the models were able to identify alternative drug combinations ...
The sale and use of some allopathic tablets and a disinfectant fluid were banned by Karnataka's health and family welfare department with immediate effect after they were tested and found to be sub-standard. In a notification, state's drugs controller B.R. Jagashetty directed chemists, doctors, hospitals and nursing homes not to sell, prescribe or use the following tablets: Junflox-O of Symbiosis Pharma Ltd, Punjab; Difenac-Plus paracetamol of Intermed, Chennai; ...
Interferon (and) #946;-1a (INF) and glatiramer acetate (GA), two of the most commonly prescribed drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS), provide no additional clinical benefit when taken together finds a recent clinical trial. While findings published today in iAnnals of Neurology/i, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggest that taking both INF and GA together was not superior to GA monotherapy in reducing relapse risk; the combination ...
Internet search engines may hold the potential to track harmful effects of drugs, reports a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Most drugs have certain side effects and some of the effects present themselves only when used in combination with other drugs. While some of the rare effects are detected only after it is available in the market and used by large number of people. Hence, some adverse effects are often missed ...
