Moving target: Vytorin raises new questions
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A disappointing study of the heart drug Vytorin has led some doctors to reconsider what makes statin drugs so effective at fighting heart disease.
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Scientists discover a new protein they believe could help develop much more effective medicines.
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HOUSTON - Stress response proteins present on the outside of cancer cells offer a promising target for a novel drug &quot;guidance system,&quot; say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists hope.
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The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvard researchers unveiled a surprisingly longer list, an important first step in the hunt for new drugs.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review whether to take action over Merck & Co Inc's  and Schering-Plough Corp's  popular cholesterol medicine Vytorin after a study showed it was no better than a generic drug in preventing the build-up of fatty plaque.
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A clinical trial of Zetia, a widely used cholesterol drug, has raised questions about its effectiveness and the behavior of pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study.
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A top compound in development could become an important MS treatment.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck & Co Inc  and Schering-Plough's  cholesterol medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- New information about the activity of a hormone-sensitive cell receptor could improve the treatment of prostate cancer, according to a study in the November issue of Cancer Cell.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be able to determine the effectiveness of anti-angiogenic cancer drugs by measuring levels of a type of blood cell.
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Scientists show how the proteins that cause vCJD bypass the body's defences and enter the bloodstream.
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A study of recommended blood pressure drugs has produced a result even the researchers find hard to explain: Adding a calcium channel blocker to a diuretic was associated
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Researchers at Merck can use neural stem-cell tech in early stages of drug development. Plus: Pay for eggs OK in Britain. In Bodyhack.
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New data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.