Florian Brand helped start ATAI Life Sciences with one vision in mind: to effectively treat mental-health disorders by turning psychedelics into medicines.
The way to do that? By bringing psychedelics through clinical trials and getting approval...
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THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2020 -- Men still dominate participation in cardiovascular clinical trials, according to a study published online Feb. 17 in Circulation.
Xurui Jin, M.D., from Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China, and colleagues...
Related topics: Cardiology, Medical Research
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2020 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the United States of a possible treatment for the new coronavirus.
It is part of an international trial that is expected to enroll 400...
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A study published in Cell Host & Microbe has tied ulcerative colitis — a serious intestinal inflammatory condition affecting about 1 million people in the United States alone, and many millions more worldwide...
Related topics: Ulcerative Colitis, Medical Research
Over the past several years, Apple has made efforts to expand the health-related features of the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apps and features like fall detection and high heart rate monitoring provide helpful insights, especially for senior citizens....
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Mobile stroke units not only sped stroke treatment but improved outcomes for ischemic stroke, a trial from early-adopter Berlin showed.
Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score at 90 days shifted significantly...
Related topics: Stroke, Ischemic Stroke
Clinical trials of antidepressants that inform FDA approval decisions often exclude suicidal patients, leaving clinicians uncertain of the efficacy of these drugs in this patient population. Medscape Medical News
Related topics: Depression, Antidepressants, Food And Drug Administration
An outbreak of pneumonia caused by a new strain of coronavirus originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, last December, and has since spread to more than 25 countries worldwide.
Related topics: Vaccines, Pneumonia
An experimental drug already shown to be safe and help some patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a deadly form of kidney cancer, effectively disables its molecular target.
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As the first clinical trial results trickle in, researchers look ahead to more sophisticated medical applications for genome editing
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Everywhere researchers looked in a series of studies, women were still substantially underrepresented in cardiology.
In particular, despite recent progress, women still haven't reached parity in the makeup of clinical trials...
Related topics: Cardiology, Medical Research
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE: TEVA) announced Wednesday that two late-stage clinical trials evaluating deutetrabenazine (also known as Austedo) for use in patients with Tourette syndrome failed to meet its clinical endpoints.A Phase 2/3...
Related topics: Teva, Tourette Syndrome
Incyte (NASDAQ: INCY) scored another clinical trial win for its ruxolitinib cream in patients with atopic dermatitis, commonly referred to as eczema. Shares of the biotech were up 2.3% at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday on the news.After eight weeks of...
Related topics: Nasdaq, Dermatitis
Switching in old age from a bland, unvaried diet to a Mediterranean mix of fresh veggies, fruits and fish restores a balance of intestinal bacteria linked to good health, researchers said Tuesday. In a clinical trial with 612 volunteers aged 65 to...
Related topics: Diet, Bacteria, Medical Research
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) appears to have hit another roadblock in its race to defeat COVID-19. The company is reportedly having trouble recruiting enough test subjects for its clinical trial of a drug candidate to fight the...
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Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) seeks to develop new treatments for metabolic and endocrine diseases. Lead drug candidate VK-2809 recently entered a phase 2b clinical trial at the end of last year as a treatment for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis...
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Once thought to be "undruggable," a target in renal cell carcinoma now has a drug aimed at it, and initial results from a small clinical trial are promising. Medscape Medical News
Related topics: Kidney Cancer, Cancer, Oncology
Enlarge / This photo taken on February 4, 2020 shows a medical staff member (C) marking a test tube containing samples taken from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in China's...
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Novel blood-based biomarkers for dementia could identify disease at an early preclinical stage, serve as surrogate outcomes for clinical trials of investigational therapies and even identify future potential therapeutic targets. Unlike cerebrospinal...
Related topics: Brain Injury, Dementia
]]>(MedPage Today) -- Real-world database analyses are not the solution to the problem of large, expensive, and difficult-to-enroll randomized controlled trials (RCTs), argued an all-star clinical trials group.
"Instead, unnecessary obstacles to...