My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
April 15, 2014 Highest Association Found During First Trimester Exposure for Autism and Third Trimester Exposure for Developmental Delays In a study of nearly 1,000 mother-child pairs, researchers from…
HRR: Yes, we know it is wrong on so many levels. PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 15-Apr-2014 Youngest children from most vulnerable populations benefit most Antibiotics improve growth in children at risk…
Public release date: 17-Aug-2011 A study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers of 192 pharmaceutical advertisements in biomedical journals found that only 18 percent were compliant with Food…
14 April 2014 by Rachael Jolley Politicians in the US and Canada are undermining scientific freedom through cuts, shutdowns and media policies ON 1 October last year, the US federal government…
Public release date: 23-Aug-2011 Analysis: Facing up to the prescription opioid crisis Action is needed to tackle the increasing number of deaths in the United States and Canada from prescription…
Public release date: 25-Aug-2011 UCLA-Harvard study highlights 3 types of confusing outcome measures Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that…
Public Release: 10-Apr-2014 Tamiflu & Relenza: How effective are they? The BMJ and Cochrane call on government and health policy decision makers to review guidance on use of Tamiflu in…
Public release date: 27-Jun-2011 Clinical study of epilepsy drug may have been purely promotional Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a clinical trial of the epilepsy drug gabapentin…
The potential conflict of interest for leaders of AMCs serving on pharmaceutical boards About 40 percent of pharmaceutical company boards of directors examined had at least one member who…
- Later studies found only a one- to three-month delay in breast cancer growth. And no studies showed Avastin extended the lives of patients with advanced breast cancer. Public release…
Public release date: 16-May-2011 Study looked at attitudes and prescribing trends of 1,078 family doctors, cardiologists and diabetologists Patients with heart disease risks are more likely to be prescribed cardiovascular…
Public release date: 3-May-2011 Limitations of evidence base for prescribing aripiprazole in maintenance therapy of bipolar disorder - The evidence base for the prescribing of aripiprazole in maintenance treatment of…
"Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” Public release date: 6-May-2011 Microsoft…
Public release date: 10-May-2011 Drug regulators are protecting profits over patients, warn researchers Analysis: Opening up data at the European Medicines Agency Medicines regulators are protecting drug company profits rather…
- By 2008, about 50 percent of women reported taking at least one prescription medication Public release date: 25-Apr-2011 (Boston) – Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center,…
Public release date: 1-May-2011 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Avandia (Photo credit: neofedex)[/caption] System in brain — target of class of diabetes drugs — linked to weight gain …
Public release date: 28-Mar-2011 Summary of study being published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology March 28 finding that men in their seventies had prostate cancer screening nearly…
Public release date: 5-Apr-2011 JAMA studies identify shift in prescribing patterns and recommend interventions to protect vulnerable populations PHILADELPHIA – Two reports by…
Public release date: 15-Mar-2011 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] English: 2D structure of SSRI-drug litoxetine (SL-810,385) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Prozac reorganizes brain plasticity Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) such as Prozac…
Public release date: 21-Mar-2011 In a study of 82 patients who were evaluated 12 or more years after undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity, a majority of patients…
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