Tag Archives: Organic chemistry

New painkiller ‘Zohydro’ raises more questions than answers

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A consortium of health professionals, law enforcement officials, and addiction specialists is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to stop a new drug called Zohydro due its risks.Zohydro, a...

Acetyl Fentanyl Deaths Spread To The Southeast

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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued a health advisory today after conclusively linking three drug overdose deaths with acetyl fentanyl, a designer opioid drug. While...

FDA Panel Rejects Medicines Company’s Heart Drug

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The FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee today recommended against the approval of cangrelor, the investigational new antiplatelet drug from the Medicines Company. ...

Problems Continue Despite Gains In Oral Anticoagulant Use

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Although significant progress has been made in recent years, a new survey from the European Society of Cardiology finds that there are still too many atrial fibrillation patients who are not taking...

Novartis Heart Failure Drug faces European Setbacks

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European regulators have dealt a setback to a novel heart failure drug under development by Novartis. The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended...

Ohio executes convicted killer using new two-drug procedure

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Ohio is the first state in the U.S. to use a new two-drug procedure in executions. 53-year old Dennis McGuire, convicted of raping and killing a pregnant woman in 1989, was executed on Thursday at...
    






Why Is Heroin Abuse Rising While Other Drug Abuse Is Falling?

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Peter Shumlin, the Democratic governor of Vermont, brought heroin addiction to the front burner of national news by devoting his entire State of the State address last week to his state’s dramatic...
    






Merck’s Vorapaxar Gets Positive FDA Review

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A few years ago a novel antiplatelet agent from Merck seemed all but dead. Vorapaxar, a thrombin receptor antagonist, was widely thought to have no future after unacceptably high serious bleeding...
    






Pfizer’s Expiring Viagra Patent Adversely Affects Other Drugmakers Too

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By David J. Phillips Looking ahead, the sex business isn’t expected to be as profitable as it once was for Pfizer Eli Lilly (LLY) and Bayer AG, manufacturers of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra,...