Among the new voluntary
efforts by pharmaceutical companies to post clinical trial data, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one of the trade groups behind last week's proposal, will recommend that its members post trial results on a World Health Organization (WHO) global trials database that WHO hopes to establish in July.
«The general challenge is that, despite 20 or 30 years of focused
effort by pharmaceutical companies and labs, we still don't know why neurons die in neurodegenerative disorders,» Lipscombe said.
Not exact matches
«We have spent millions of dollars to combat the problem through law enforcement, treatment and prevention, and if those
efforts have been unfairly impacted
by the improper practices of
pharmaceutical companies and others, we owe it to the tax payers to leave no stone unturned in recovering any unjustified costs.»
THE takeover of the British drugs
company Wellcome
by its larger rival Glaxo will create a «leaner and fitter»
company, but the nation's research
effort in
pharmaceuticals will suffer, a group of MPs say this week.
Researchers and
pharmaceutical companies are actively working on FLT3 inhibitors, but to date these
efforts have been hampered
by low efficacy and concerns about drug resistance.
In a separate
effort, Partners HealthCare, founded
by Brigham and Women's Hospital and MGH, launched Partners Innovation in 2008 to improve the bridge between basic and translational research groups and businesses, thereby accelerating laboratory discoveries and making them more accessible to
pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and venture capitalists.
For example, the
company partners with Mission Rabies in its work to eradicate rabies worldwide
by providing approximately $ 60,000 in health care supplies — including
pharmaceuticals, syringes, and other veterinary products — to support the organization's canine vaccination
efforts in Malawi.