Clinical Research

Clinical Research: A Road Towards New drug Arrival

Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research  conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions  and adverse effects of other treatments and safety and efficacy  data to be collected for health interv ...

Blog Post - Ebin Abraham - May 17 2011 - 9:57am

HPV vaccine: Drastic unethical trial

The question whether all human clinical trials undertaken in India are conducted ethically has been answered. The final report of the three-member committee appointed by the central government to go into the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the hu ...

Blog Post - Ebin Abraham - May 17 2011 - 9:56am

Stress Does Not Increase Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis

A new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).  Researchers studied two groups of women nurses from the Nurses' Health Study. The first group of 121,700 nurses between the ages of ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2011 - 10:34pm

Can Systems Biology Help In The Fight Against Malaria, HIV And Tuberculosis?

The three conditions mentioned in the title, malaria, HIV and tuberculosis, are responsible for about 5 million deaths per year and thus constitute some of the most compelling challenges in biomedical research. Slowly but surely, new knowledge is being ga ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jun 7 2011 - 9:36am

Xenotransplantation- Growing Pig Organs To Use In Humans

Growing human, perfectly matching organs inside a pig and then transplanting them into humans is not a new idea- it may revolutionize medicine- but a new discovery may also allow pig tissue to be transplanted directly into humans. The research in the Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2011 - 9:52am

Are Balanced Nutrition Campaigns Leading To More Obesity?

Habituation is when people lose interest in something after being repeatedly exposed to it (insert your favorite joke about being married here). When it comes to diet, it is hypothesized that habituation can decrease caloric intake.    That also means calo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2011 - 12:09pm

Ending Back Pain With Bio-Engineered Discs

Millions of people are suffering from back pain, making it a major continuous source of physical discomfort for many. Normally, each vertebra in the spine is cushioned by intervertebral discs (see figure 1). But these discs can degenerate due to age or in ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 2 2011 - 3:54am

Middle East To Be The Future In Clinical Trials

Global pharmaceutical companies are currently seeking emerging markets to conduct clinical trials due to the increase in drug development costs and the demand to advance drugs faster.   The Middle East is forecast to be one of the fastest growing markets ...

Article - Newswire - Aug 17 2011 - 1:48pm

The Healing Properties Of Frog Skin

Cancer, diabetes, stroke and transplant patients can all get benefit from one common thing; frog skin. An international research project  is collecting proteins from our amphibian friends (no frogs were harmed in the writing of this article or in the resea ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 5:14pm

Engineering Microbes To Kill Pseudomonas

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (see figure 1) is a human pathogen that colonizes the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, where it can cause life-threatening infections in patients with a compromised immune system, such as cancer or cystic fibrosis patients. P ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 23 2011 - 6:19am