My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
Public release date: 15-Jan-2008 A University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute study has found that a popular class of osteoporosis drugs nearly triples the risk of…
Public release date: 16-Jan-2008 ST. PAUL, Minn. – Contrary to some reports, taking statins, which are cholesterol-lowering drugs, offers no protection against Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published in…
Public release date: 16-Jan-2008 PORTLAND, Ore. - Selective publication in reporting results of antidepressant trials exaggerates the effectiveness of the drugs, according to a report in the January 17…
Public release date: 17-Jan-2008 Drugs for pre-osteoporosis: Prevention or disease-mongering? A series of recent scientific publications have exaggerated the benefits and underplayed the harms of drugs to treat pre-osteoporosis…
Public release date: 8-Jan-2008 Despite a 1990 consensus recommendation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that lumpectomy plus radiation was the treatment of choice for early stage…
Public release date: 4-Dec-2007 A comparison of common treatments for acute sinusitis that included an antibiotic and a topical steroid found neither more effective than placebo, according to a study…
Public release date: 19-Nov-2007 Dutch study suggests that among children with mild or moderate symptoms of throat infections, surgery to remove the tonsils may be more expensive but not necessarily…
Public release date: 7-Nov-2007 PORTLAND, Ore. –A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week by Oregon Health & Science University researchers suggests that timelines for…
Public release date: 8-Nov-2007 Interferon does not slow or halt the progression of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease in patients who haven’t responded to previous attempts to eradicate…
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 Research may explain why common drugs don't help ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they…
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Most clinical trials for new diabetes drugs do not consider the impact medication will have on a patient’s quality of life or other…
Public release date: 9-Aug-2007 Researchers from the New England Research Institutes found that while men using statins did indeed have lower blood levels of androgens such as…
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