Month: September 2014
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PBS to Air Documentary on Vaccine Attitudes and Disease
4 September 2014. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will air a documentary next week on the changing public attitudes toward vaccines and their effects on the growing occurrence of communicable diseases in the U.S. The show, Vaccines — Calling the Shots premieres on PBS as part of the NOVA series of science documentaries on Wednesday 10…
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Calico, AbbVie Partner on Aging Disorder Therapies
3 September 2014. California Life Sciences LLC, better known as Calico, and the pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. are collaborating on discovery and commercialization of drugs for age-related diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The partnership, which includes building a new research center, could result in a joint investment as high as $1.5 billion. Calico,…
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Multi-Purpose Drug Boosts Adherence After Heart Attack
3 September 2014. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and National Centre for Cardiovascular Research in Madrid, Spain found a pill combining three cardiovascular drugs usually prescribed separately helps heart attack patients stick to their medications better than the three drugs taken separately. The team led by Valentin Fuster, accredited to both institutions,…
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Breakthrough Status Given Parkinson’s Psychosis Drug
2 September 2014. Acadia Pharmaceuticals says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration designated its drug candidate pimavanserin as a breakthrough therapy for the treatment of psychosis associated with Parkinson’s disease. Acadia is a biopharmaceutical company in San Diego specializing in neurological and central nervous system disorders. Pimavanserin is Acadia’s lead therapy candidate, to be offered…
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U.S. Diet Quality Improves, But Still Not Healthy
2 September 2014. A study by researchers at Harvard University shows some improvement in the health benefits of food eaten by Americans over the last decade, but the overall quality of the American diet remains poor. The study led by nutrition and epidemiology professor Walter Willett appears online in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine (paid…
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Labor Day 2014
1 September 2014. Today is Labor Day in the U.S. and Labour Day in Canada, thus Science & Enterprise will be taking a break. Regular posting resumes tomorrow. Way before rap, there was talking blues. Here’s a recording of the late Pete Seeger with a talking blues song for Labor Day, Talking Union. * * …