Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for September 2015

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Promising Drug Candidate to Treat Chronic Itch that Avoids Side Effects Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Promising Drug Candidate to Treat Chronic Itch that Avoids Side Effects

If you have an itch, you have to scratch it. But that’s a problem for people with a condition called “chronic intractable itch,” where that itchy sensation never goes away—a difficult-to-treat condition closely associated with dialysis and renal failure.

New discovery offers cure by starving cancer cells New discovery offers cure by starving cancer cells

Scientists know that most cancer cells use glucose to fuel their uncontrolled growth and now an international team of researchers has identified a protein which if switched off could stop the disease in its tracks.

Health Leaders Gather To Tackle Antibiotic Crisis Health Leaders Gather To Tackle Antibiotic Crisis

Leading economist Lord Jim O’Neill has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at a flagship conference focused on finding new ways to tackle the global threat to public health posed by antibiotic resistance.