Fri.Mar 07, 2025

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Researchers create gel that can self-heal like human skin

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Until now, artificial gels have either managed to replicate high stiffness or natural skin's self-healing properties, but not both. Now, a team of researchers has developed a hydrogel with a unique structure that overcomes earlier limitations, opening the door to applications such as drug delivery, wound healing, soft robotics sensors and artificial skin.

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Select Vitamins, Minerals During Pregnancy Protect Heart Health Later

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- Getting essential vitamins and minerals during pregnancy can help a woman maintain healthy blood pressure into middle age, new research suggests.High levels of the minerals copper and manganese in pregnant women were.

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The changing chorus: How movements and memories influence birdsong evolution

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time, revealing a significant role for population dynamics in shaping song diversity and change. The findings are based on an analysis of over 100,000 bird songs.

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Makers of Wegovy & Zepbound Cut Prices for Those Without Insurance

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- The makers of two popular weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound are cutting prices to make the medications more affordable for people without insurance.Novo Nordisk, the Danish company behind Wegovy, announced Wednesday.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Roche launches new Boston center; NIH centralizes peer review

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The Swiss pharma will base cardiometabolic drug research at the new Allston site. Elsewhere, AskBio advanced a gene therapy and Pfizer hired a scientist well versed in GLP-1 science.

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Earth's orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. New high resolution geochemical records for the first time reveal when and how two major eruption phases of gigantic flood basalt volcanism had an impact on climate and biota in the late Maastrichtian era 66 to 67 million years ago.

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Music Soothes Depression In Dementia Patients

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2024 -- Music therapy can help lift the spirits and ease depression in people with dementia, a new evidence review has found.Findings suggest that music-based therapy probably improves depressive symptoms and might even improve.

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Nimbus swaps CEOs and turns to new leader for ‘next chapter’

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

CBO Abbas Kazimi will replace longtime CEO Jeb Keiper as part of a planned leadership transition at the unorthodox drug startup.

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Parkinson's Cases Expected To Double In Coming Decades

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- The number of people with Parkinsons disease will more than double by 2050, driven by the aging of the global population, a new study suggests.In all, 25.2 million people will be living with Parkinsons by 2050, res.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Walgreens to be acquired in $10B take-private deal

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The struggling retail pharmacy chain entered an agreement to be purchased by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, which could end its nearly 100-year run as a public company.

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Poor Sleep Drives High Blood Pressure In Teens

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- Teens who sleep fewer than 7.7 hours are more likely to have high blood pressure, a new study suggests.Likewise, those suffering from both insomnia and a lack of sleep are five times more likely to have high blood pressure.

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March 2025 - Q1 Product Update Webinar: Inventory and Automation

Collaborative Drug

We recently hosted our Q1 2025 Product Update Webinar, showcasing significant enhancements to CDD Vault's automation capabilities and inventory management system. The webinar demonstrated how these features streamline laboratory operations and CRO collaborations. Here's a summary of the key updates.

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Stillbirth Rates Are Highest in the South

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- Women in the U.S. South are three times more likely to lose a baby in late pregnancy than mothers in other regions, a new study reports.The study, exclusively reported March 6 by NBC News, attributes the high rates of.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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J&J scraps depression testing for potential blockbuster drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Analysts say the decision is a “big blow” to a once-promising class of brain therapies that include’s J&J’s aticaprant and a drug from Neumora.

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This Score Can Predict Risk of Early Colon Cancer

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 A new risk prediction model can help identify people who are likely to develop early-onset colon cancer or small non-cancerous growths on other organs, researchers say.The model relies on four factors associated with e.

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Qkine's Animal-Free Growth Factors and Cytokines are ideal for Stem Cell Culture

Reprocell

Qkine's growth factors and cytokines are of exceptional bioactivity and purity - essential for maintaining and differentiating stem cell cultures.

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Second Death From Measles Reported in Unvaccinated Adult in New Mexico

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- Amid the current outbreak of measles centered in counties along the Texas/New Mexico border, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) is reporting the death of an unvaccinated adult who tested positive for measles. The.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Bridging the Gap in Patient Support: How GoodRx is Revolutionizing Access to Specialty Meds

Drug Channels

Todays guest post is from Divya Iyer, SVP Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy at GoodRx. Divya argues that patient support programs (PSPs) struggle with awareness and accessibility, preventing patients from fully benefiting from the financial and educational resources available to them. Divya discusses how integrating digital solutions from GoodRx can enhance engagement, streamline access to therapy, and improve patient outcomes.

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Butter Is A Deadly Delight, Study Says

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 -- Its a cooks maxim that everythings better with butter.Except your health, a new study suggests.People who eat loads of butter have a higher risk of premature death, while those who use mostly plant-based oils like canola.

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Even More Thoughts on ML Method Comparisons

Practical Cheminformatics

Introduction A few things motivated this post. Some recent discussions about the virtues of LightGBM vs XGBoost Posts on TabPFN by Jonathan Swain and Chris Swain The release of Osmordred by Guillaume Godin With new methods and descriptor calculation tools emerging in the blogosphere, I wanted to compare a few of them to see if they would be useful in my work.

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Multi-Modality Testing of EGFR

Fierce BioTech

Multi-Modality Testing of EGFR In this white paper, discover how a multi-modality testing approach can enhance clinical trials by providing comprehensive insights into patient responses and treatment efficacy. Download the whitepaper for an in-depth look. smarcus Fri, 03/07/2025 - 13:04 In this white paper, discover how a multi-modality testing approach can enhance clinical trials by providing comprehensive insights into patient responses and treatment efficacy.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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The Value of Clinical Research

Advarra

Clinical research is a vital driver of medical progress. Yet, many people are unaware of the essential role of institutional review boards (IRBs) in protecting clinical trial participants by ensuring compliance with human subject protection requirements. With more than three decades of experience, Advarra is dedicated to advancing clinical research by providing expert oversight.

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Unlocking the Potential of Biocatalysis

Fierce BioTech

Unlocking the Potential of Biocatalysis The pharmaceutical industry is evolving, and biocatalysis is at the forefront of this transformation. Access our comprehensive guide to learn how drug manufacturers can create more sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient production processes by harnessing natures catalystsenzymes and cells. smarcus Fri, 03/07/2025 - 11:41 The pharmaceutical industry is evolving, and biocatalysis is at the forefront of this transformation.

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Microbiome-Oncology Interactions: The Forgotten Axis in Cancer Progression

Crown Bioscience

The intricate relationship between the microbiome and cancer has emerged as a transformative area of study in oncology. While advances in immuno-oncology platforms have revolutionized cancer treatment, the role of microbiota in shaping immune responses remains underexplored. Crown Biosciences cutting-edge microbiome profiling services provide unparalleled insights into how microbiota-driven immune modulation influences cancer progression and treatment outcomes.

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Women Leaders who inspire me and Women Empowerment.

Perficient: Drug Development

Great day to write about women leaders than International Women’s Day. Women Leaders are my source of Inspiration and motivation. Women Empowerment plays a major role in Nations economy and upliftment. I am hereby blogging about the Leadership skills of Women and the women leaders who did inspire me and the most common traits possessed by these icons.

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Hope for ALS and inflammatory diseases: Cellenkos’ CRANE technology breakthrough

Drug Target Review

In the rapidly advancing fields of drug discovery and cell therapy, one company is making remarkable progress in transforming the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Leading this innovation is Dr Simrit Parmar, Founder of Cellenkos , a physician-scientist who began her career with groundbreaking research on regulatory T cells (Tregs) to mitigate complications from allogeneic transplants, particularly graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

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