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UK vaccine clinical trial outsourcing expansion continues
An outsourcing company has announced that Phase II, III and IV clinical trials of vaccines will continue at a growing number of sites, assessing the safety of each in light of COVID-19.
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Drug approved which reduces risk of cardiovascular events
The FDA has approved Vascepa (icosapent ethyl) as a secondary therapy to reduce cardiovascular events in adults.
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Job cuts limit cardiovascular and diabetes research and development
Pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, will eliminate jobs in France and Germany and end new in-house cardiology research programmes.
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Benzodiazepines could decrease mortality in congestive heart failure
Researchers have suggested that benzodiazepines should be the first course of treatment for those with cardiovascular disease and anxiety...
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Frequent aspirin use linked to increased bleeding
A study has found that long term aspirin use increases patients' risk of major bleeding events by 43 percent, with 1 in 200 having a major bleed...
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Increasing dose of statins could save more lives
A study has shown that thousands of heart attacks and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease could be prevented through the use of statins...
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3D bioprinting technique for artificial organ tissue and arteries
A 3D bioprinting technique could, in the future, allow the creation of human tissue structures for the analysis of various diseases...
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Manufacturing small batches of biopharmaceuticals on demand
Portable biopharmaceutical drug manufacturers could be the future method of producing the drugs on demand for outbreaks of disease...
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Statins study questions their widespread use in the healthy elderly
A new observational study has identified no benefit from prescribing statins to healthy pensioners aged over 75 to prevent heart disease...
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Cardiac monitoring for high-risk breast cancer patients ‘should be prioritised’
Cardiac monitoring of high-risk breast cancer patients should be prioritised, after research revealed low rates of heart monitoring seen in the patients receiving trastuzumab.
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Heart health calculator predicts CVD risk
A new online heart health calculator can predict the age of hearts and the risk to individuals of a serious cardiovascular event or death...
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Canakinumab reduces gout rate by more than half
The results of a study presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate that canakinumab significantly reduced the rate of gout by more than half, compared to placebo, regardless of baseline serum urate level.
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Nutrition, the microbiome, and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A review
Over the last decade, research has revealed more about the human gut microbiome—the environment within the gastrointestinal tract—where microbes, especially bacteria, reside.
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Novartis invests in Ionis’ therapies to reduce cardiovascular risk
10 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
Novartis announced a collaboration and option agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate Akcea Therapeutics to license two novel treatments with the potential to significantly reduce cardiovascular risk in patients suffering from high levels of lipoproteins known as Lp(a) and ApoCIII.
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FDA to review 3 new diabetes drugs that reduce cardiovascular death risk
5 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
In the trial, empagliflozin significantly reduced the relative risk of the combined primary endpoint of cardiovascular death, non-fatal heart attack by 14%...
