Pharmaceuticals

By Megan Brooks NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with advanced colorectal cancer fare better with first-line treatment with FOLFOXIRI (folinic acid, 5-FU, oxaliplatin and irinotecan) plus bevacizumab than with FOLFIRI (folinic acid, 5-FU and irinotecan) plus bevacizumab, according to updated survival results from the Italian TRIBE study.

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The drugs disrupt mosquitoes' gut bacteria, which appears to make the insects more effective malaria vectors. Christopher Intagliata reports

Several expensive cancer medicines will no longer be available on Britain's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) following an overhaul of an over-budget drug funding scheme

Evolution is helping bacteria bounce back

By selecting for bacteria that can survive only if they make a particular product of interest over multiple iterations, researchers vastly improved yields and decreased production times. Cynthia Graber reports

 

Companies and clinicians turn to ketamine to treat mental-health disorder as pipeline of new drugs dries up

Potential drug kills pathogens such as MRSA—and was discovered by mining "unculturable" bacteria

Medical charities say they have started trials of untested drug treatments on Ebola patients in Liberia and Guinea for the first time in an effort to control an epidemic that has killed more than 8,000 people in the region.

Will a pill at breakfast improve concentration and memory—and will it do so without long-term detriment to your health?

Even manure from drug-free cows encourages antibiotic-resistant bacteria

A flow of ideas to stop the bleeding