Credit: DepositphotosFor many years, numerous essential proteins crucial for treating diverse illnesses have proven challenging to administer through oral drug therapy. Conventional small molecules often face difficulties in binding to proteins with flat surfaces or necessitate specificity for specific protein homologs. Larger biologics, which can target these proteins, usually require injection, restricting patient convenience...
Credit: DepositphotosResearchers in the United Kingdom are currently testing the first male contraceptive pill. This raises the question of whether men are willing to actively participate or if they prefer women to continue shouldering the entire burden of deciding when and whether to reproduce.Historically, women have borne the predominant burden of preventing pregnancy, often...
Humans use a vast array of pharmaceuticals to stay healthy—what do those drugs and their breakdown products mean for the health of groundwater ecosystems? Credit: SharonDawn/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Engulfing a pill merely seems to make it disappear. In reality, drugs sooner or later leave your organism and go into waterways, where they can suffer more...
Credit: Scitech DailyA new study shows that taking a daily supplement may improve cognition in older adults. In the study, scientists estimated that three years of multivitamin supplementation roughly translated to a 60-percent slowing of cognitive decrease (about 1.8 years).Daily multivitamin intakeCould taking a daily multivitamin help to maintain cognitive health with aging and...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainConducting scientific experiments in space enables investigators to examine and make medicines without gravity, which could give unexpected outcomes that enhance investigation back in the world. Regarding to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering Information, more commercial entities are broadening offerings in low-Earth orbit, which could eventually permit more characteristic...
Credit: Hull Live.SOLIHULL - A pharmacist imprisoned last year for steering large quantities of resting pills to the black market was struck off the register, after a recent GPhC hearing.The remote fitness to a practice committee hearing on May 24-25 heard that Dean Dookhan, who worked as a pharmacist in Northbrook Pharmacy in Solihull,...
Diagnostic and Interventional CardiologyPfizer Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Lots of ACCUPRIL (Quinapril HCl) Due to N-Nitroso-Quinapril Content | DAICPfizer voluntarily recalled 5 lots of quinapril HCI (Accupril) tablets distributed to the patient level as a result of the presence of the N-nitroso-quinapril nitrosamine, observed in recent testing over the acceptable daily intake (ADI) level.Pfizer...
Drug-like molecules hold great promise for developing new strategies in cancer cell therapy. Credit: Artem Podrez/ Pexels.comDrug-like molecules hold great promise for developing new strategies in cancer cell therapy. These molecules can specifically target cancer cells and disrupt their growth and proliferation, while sparing normal cells.Ten years ago, genome sequencing unveiled a...
Credit: Copyright Dr. Kateryna/fotobia.comA study from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University has led to the promising discovery of a new antimalarial compound.The discovery unlocks the possibility of developing new drugs targeting malaria, one of the deadliest infectious diseases on Earth. Gerry Wright, a biochemistry and biomedical sciences...
Researchers have discovered that an existing drug could help reverse lung fibrosis in mice. Credit: animaxx3d/DepositphotosLung fibrosis is a lung condition involving too much scarring that affects people's breathing and currently can not be treated. But now, scientists at the College of Alabama have discovered a way to turn around the problem in mice,...
