Scientists Drug-Test Whole Cities
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WASHINGTON -- Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant.
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Edinburgh University scientists and students devise a test to detect the presence of arsenic in water supplies.
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A vast majority of patients and doctors would surely agree that pharmaceutical companies ought to reveal the results of clinical trials that suggest that their drugs don&#39;t work or may even be harmful.
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An automated-screening initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health could finally provide the tools researchers need to turn knowledge of the genome into new drugs.
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Using a novel research technique, Hong Kong scientists find new ways to attack a deadly disease
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Scientists have developed a speedy way to monitor the effectiveness of cholesterol-reducing statin drugs.
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Researchers at MIT are working on a nanotechnology project aimed at dispensing medication to patients from inside the body.
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NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey  - Two states are initiating random testing this week to try to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in high school sports.
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A four-year study is to test if treatment for tuberculosis can be speeded up using a combination of drugs.
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An effort that joins major drugmakers, regulators and academics will be launched on Thursday to study the genetics of people who develop serious side effects from prescription drugs.
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Scientists are conducting thousands of medical experiments that can offer tantalizing hope to the ill, but tracking them down and getting enrolled can be incredibly difficult.    It might get easier, thanks to a growing push by doctors and lawmakers to force drug companies to list on a national registry every study they conduct...
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Crude paintings of women and rows of dimly lit bedrooms make clear the purpose of a shabby building just off a main road in this sprawling city. But for the next year, this brothel will have another function as well: testing a drug that could help stop HIV infections before they begin.
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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.
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Scientists in Hong Kong said yesterday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these chemicals may be developed into drugs.
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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EPIX initiates a safety trial and gets good efficacy data.
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A recent study initiated by drug manufacturing company DeCode Genetics of Reykjavik, has come up with startling results. The report was published in âPloS Medicineâ, the on-line journal.