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Senate approves FDA overhaul that would provide faster access to generic drugs
Boston Herald
By Lisa Mascaro / Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - In a momentary flash of bipartisanship, the Senate approved legislation that would allow Americans speedier access to generic drugs as well as breakthrough treatments for life-threatening ...
FDA's $6.4 Billion Drug, Device Review Fee Plan Passes SenateBusinessWeek
Drugs may be OK'd fasterThe Spokesman Review
Senate effort targets drug shortagesPittsburgh Post Gazette
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Diabetes Drug Shown to Work in Blacks
MedPage Today
Note that most patients were also receiving either metformin or a sulfonylurea drug. PHILADELPHIA -- A first-of-its-kind study found that African Americans with type 2 diabetes significantly benefited from linagliptin (Tradjenta) therapy.

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ScienceBlog.com (blog)
MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector
Capital Public Radio News
By Ted Burnham Jet injectors have been delivering drugs and vaccines without needles since the Star Trek era, but never caught on widely in real-world medicine. A device developed at MIT promises to change that, with computer-controlled precision and ...
Jet Device Injects Drugs Without NeedlesMedical News Today
No More 'Ouch': New Injector Painlessly Delivers DrugsLiveScience.com
MIT Researchers Develop Needle-Less, Painless Way To Inject Drugs (At The ...International Business Times
DOTmed.com -Mass High Tech -ScienceBlog.com (blog)
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Sci-Tech Today
The Scandal of fake Malaria drugs
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Specifically, in seven Southeast Asian countries, 36 percent of samples tested, across five categories of drugs, were counterfeit and 30 percent did not have the pharmaceutical ingredients they were supposed to contain. “These findings are a wake-up ...
No Malaria Drug ResistanceAllAfrica.com
East African medics to combat malaria drugs resistanceCoastweek
Fake drugs impede progress made in war on malariamsnbc.com
Los Angeles Times -Sci-Tech Today -The Nonprofit Quarterly
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Cops: Sex costumes, drugs, Centerfold's workers found in Townie bust
Boston Herald
By Renee Nadeau Algarin Cops found sex costumes, drugs and three Centerfold's strip club workers at an after-hours house party in Charlestown yesterday. Community complaints led cops to investigate the Cambridge Street home where neighbors told police ...


 
Teen Drinking and Drug Use Study Links Loud Music And Risky Behaviors (POLL)
Huffington Post
Whoever coined the phrase "sex, drugs and rock n' roll," may have been onto something: According to a new study conducted by researchers in The Netherlands, teenagers who love blasting music from their iPods are apparently more likely than others to ...

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RedOrbit
New Drug Kills Cancer Cells Without Toxic Effects
RedOrbit
A group of researchers from McMaster University have found a new drug that can kill cancer stem cells in humans while avoiding the toxic side effects of other traditional cancer treatments. Over the past 15 years, researchers have thought that stem ...
Researchers discover drug destroys human cancer stem cells but not healthy onesScienceBlog.com (blog)

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