Home / About PPME / News
News
First results for meningitis B vaccine
2010-10-19 Meningitis B is a world-wide infection that most severely affects babies and young children, often killing them within 48 hours of the first symptoms. “The challenge...
Read more
New use for IUDs
2010-10-12 29 September 2010: Intrauterine devices (IUDs), originally developed as contraceptives, may also be used to treat and cure cancer of the endometrium [1]. The findin...
Read more
Can B vitamins prevent Alzheimer’s?
2010-10-05 Supplementing the diet with folic acid and B vitamins slowed the accelerated rate of brain atrophy in people aged over 70 years who had mild cognitive impairment and...
Read more
Promising results of phase III trial for perampanel in epilepsy
2010-10-05 A novel investigational compound, generic name perampanel, has recently done well in an epilepsy trial. Discovered and developed by Eisai, perampanel is a first-in-c...
Read more
Japan’s generics sector set to grow
2010-10-01 Japan is currently the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market, with annual sales of approximately Yen 8,850 billion. Around 8% of its prescription drug sales (...
Read more
Cancer incidence is rising
2010-09-28 Although overall mortality from cancer is decreasing in the EU, its incidence increased by almost 20%, from 2.1 million new cases in 2002 to 2.5 million in 2008, say...
Read more
New use for ivabradine?
2010-09-28 The BEAUTIFUL trial [1] suggests that ivabradine, currently licensed for symptomatic treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris in certain patients, might be useful...
Read more
Of course it’s safe - I can buy this medicine
2010-09-24 Many children are put at risk by parents’ overuse of OTC medicines for fever, coughs and colds, reports an Australian study presented to the annual International Pha...
Read more
Little confidence in bevacizumab
2010-09-24 Despite a five-to-four vote against approval by its advisory committee on 22 February 2008, the FDA approved bevacizumab for patients with metastatic breast cancer u...
Read more
Statins don't help patients without heart disease
2010-09-17 Statins have been shown to reduce the risk of all-cause mortality among individuals with clinical history of coronary heart disease. But do they have similar benefit...
Read more
Efficacy and safety of rasburicase in TLS
2010-09-17 According to research in adults with hyperuricaemia or at high risk of tumour lysis syndrome (TLS), rasburicase provides control of plasma uric acid more rapidly tha...
Read more
Consolidation radiotherapy in DLBCL after chemotherapy
2010-09-14 The current standard treatment for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (R...
Read more
Last update: 2008-09-06 | 
Go Back | 
Print View
