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Side Effects Tip Diabetes Drug Toss-up

As patients and their doctors consider two of the newer treatments for type 2 diabetes, their pick may come down to weight loss and side effects, a new study shows. The 26-week, multicenter DURATION-6 clinical trial found...

Virtual Liver May be Cure for Drug Failures in ClinicalTrials

Kalyanasundaram Subramanian had lost count of the number of times pharma firms had asked him: "Do you have a good model for predicting drug toxicity?" It was early in the last decade, when he was working for the firm Entelos,...

Genes guide medication decisions, potential treatment

The first fruits of genomic medicine are being enjoyed by North Carolina patients on a common anti-clotting drug but soon could include many other drugs and one day people facing radiation or with a difficult-to-treat form...

Science Spotlight - Bath Salts

New research stresses potential health dangers of “bath salts”. NIDA research published in today’s Neuropsychopharmacology shows that MDPV, a synthetic chemical commonly found in the drugs referred to as "bath salts," is potentially...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program Forty-Second Round Awardees

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 7 applications were received and 4 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC-CH School...

Building A Better System

When it comes to preventing and treating chronic illness, there are a lot of variables in play. There are, of course, genetics, environment, lifestyle and medications. Then there is the health care system. How patients gain...

All Fired Up

Your brain is composed of billions of tiny elements, each communicating with the other through a series of electrical impulses. The aggregate of all these electrical signals makes you who you are – enabling you to use your...

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