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Poor Circulation: How to Prevent It, How to Spot It

Drugs.com

SUNDAY, Oct. 6, 2024 — Pain, tingling and cramps in your legs and feet may be giving you a warning.They could be signs of poor blood circulation, which can lead to serious heart and health problems if left untreated, according to a doctor at Baylor.

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Recent Advances in Medicinal Chemistry of Memantine Against Alzheimer's Disease

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive age-related neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of memory and other cognitive functions. The problem of this disease is even more fundamental because the available therapies only provide symptomatic relief without addressing the basic factor of the disease. This review article comprehensively summarized the recent advancement in memantine and its hybrid analogs as potential disease-modifying agents for the management of AD.

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Drug Patent Expirations for the Week of October 6, 2024

Drug Patent Watch

NUCYNTA ER (tapentadol hydrochloride) Collegium pharm inc Patent: 8,114,383 Expiration: Oct 10, 2024 See More … Source

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Marijuana, Psychosis, and Policy Development

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Marijuana, Psychosis, and Policy Development "Two things are needed to move beyond policy-biased appraisals of the evidence on cannabis and psychosis. "First, we need to use explicit criteria to assess the evidence for contributory causal relationships and apply them in an even-handed and consistent way. We should avoid the example of the tobacco industry in setting such a high standard of evidence for a causal inference that no evidence can satisfy it ( 30 ).

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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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Attacking Cancers Using Novel Methods of Targeted Protein Degradation

SugarCone Biotech

By Paul D. Rennert, SugarCone Biotech LLC. Cell surface degraders are weird but cool. There is an emerging class of therapeutics, brilliant really, that make use of cell surface proteins that will respond to antibody binding by moving quickly inside the cell and then shuttling over to lysosomes for degradation. The trick is bind to these “internalizer proteins” with a bispecific antibody or fusion protein so they drag a second bound targeted protein with them.