‘Silencer molecules’ switch off cancer’s ability to spread around body
Scientists have revealed that a key molecule in breast and lung cancer cells can help switch off the cancers’ ability to…
Pharmacy/Drugs
MenB – will Parliament cede to a million petitioners?
Meningitis B (MenB), a virulent bacterium, causes the majority of cases of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Europe as…
Dark arts pushing heart drugs
Evidence-based medicine and ‘value for money’ are two of medicine’s Mum and apple pie principles. But like other principles they…
Drugs to prevent hearing loss
AM-111 - this is an experimental drug, developed by Auris Medical for people with acute inner ear hearing loss, which…
SNG001 Anti-Viral
We have discovered and developed a new anti-viral drug (SNG001) that could potentially help reduce the number of hospital admissions for…
Antacids to fundoplication
A pharmacologist's view of progress in gastrointestinal medicine over the past 30 years. As a pharmacologist working in the Pharmaceutical…
The death of terminal cancer?
We would all like to see the end of terminal cancer. A non-survivable brain cancer killed my mother in a…
Drug treatments for brittle bones
Today three million woman in the UK are diagnosed with so-called brittle bone disease osteoporosis and 75,000 hip fractures are…