POSTS TAGGED AS drugs

For Toxicity Testing, a Human-Body-on-a-Chip

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the [MORE]

Review of Stem Cell Technology

This piece references an article the excellent science writer Stephen Hall published in Scientific American last March, which gives [MORE]

Automated Sorting of Pharmaceutical Waste

From four billion vials, bottles and ampoules containing regulated materials, American hospitals generate more than 84,000 tons of pharmaceutical [MORE]

MRI to Guide Drug Dosage

Positron emission tomography scans and radioactive labels now allow researchers to image a drug’s effect on the brain with [MORE]

Genetic Testing at Your Neighborhood Pharmacy

Imagine a time-about a century ago-when physicians generally accepted the idea that germs caused disease, but didn’t know what [MORE]

MUSING - Kiosk-Based Healthcare Delivery

Kiosk-based medicine has suddenly taken a new step with the next wave in direct to consumer marketing that is sweeping [MORE]

Bar coding against fake medicines

WHO estimates that 10% of proprietary drugs on the world market are counterfeit.  To address this problem researchers at New [MORE]

Medscape Phone Demo

WebMD has introduced its new medical application for physicians, “Medscape Mobile,” which contains information on more than 6,000 drugs, has [MORE]

iPill

Philips Research, a branch of the Dutch electronics giant, will soon begin testing in animals of an electronic pill that [MORE]

Interactive Drug Labeling

Early next year, the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) will mandate interactive drug labeling for e-prescription filling.  [MORE]

Detecting Counterfeit Drugs

A British research company, CERAM Surface and Materials Analysis (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) offers a whitepaper on methods for using photoelectron spectroscopy [MORE]