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Human skin wound dressings to treat cutaneous ulcers
Researchers from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine and CHU de Québec have shown that it is possible to treat venous ulcers unresponsive to conventional...
AstraZeneca and Merck enter licence agreement for investigational oral WEE1 kinase inhibitor therapy for cancer
AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Amplimmune, a privately-held, Maryland, US-based...
Statins being overprescribed for growing number of kidney disease patients
A new analysis concludes that large numbers of patients in advanced stages of kidney disease are inappropriately being prescribed statins to lower their cholesterol...
SAVOR-TIMI 53 sets new standard for cardiovascular outcome trials in diabetes
Uncertainty persists regarding whether drugs that lower sugar reduce the risk of heart attack, with some concerns that diabetes drugs may actually raise the...
FDA approves new drug to treat HIV infection
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Tivicay (dolutegravir), a new drug to treat HIV-1 infection. Tivicay is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor...
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