Cameron Joins Obama, Rejects Drug Decriminalization Despite Empirical …

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Since the current government came to power in 2010 the rate of adults reporting use of Class A drugs in the last year dropped from 3.1 percent to 3 percent. The Home Affairs Committee specifically outlined the trend in British drug taking among young …
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Research reveals how the body fights malaria

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

“It's really interesting in understanding how humans have evolved in relation to malaria, more so than it is for immediately figuring out a new drug or vaccine to treat malaria,” he said. “It might lead in the longer term to a treatment but in the …
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SAC's InterMune Trade Probe May Reveal Corrupted FDA Drug Review

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These SAC trades bracketed a volatile three-month period for InterMune shares during which the company was seeking FDA approval for Esbriet, a new treatment for the progressive and fatal lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [Esbriet was known as …
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Bevacizumab not helpful in the adjuvant setting for colon cancer

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Consistent with three-year follow up data from the study (reported by Reuters Health in 2010), the five-year follow-up data continue to show a highly significant time-by-treatment interaction with DFS, such that the effect of bevacizumab was strongly …
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