Archive for March, 2007
Corcept’s failure to launch
Unless it receives more money, Corcept is about to fold, since its one-and-only pipeline product for Psychotic Major Depression failed in clinical trials.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Inimex Pharma: another candidate for immune boosters.
Another immune-modulating company to keep on eye on: Inimex Pharma. Their technology has the potential to fight diseases naturally, by harnessing the power of the immune system.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PLx Pharma
PLx Pharma is developing another safer pain-reliever.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The need for true immune supplements, over-the-counter.
I don’t understand why in our grocery and drug stores we still have antiquated, unproven “immune-building” supplements (garlic is good, and proven, but those Airborne and Emergen-C supplements, especially, annoy me in that they’re not proven to work).
Why doesn’t a pharmaceutical company step up and push scientifically proven, powerful immune-building compounds for over-the-counter indications?
For instance, [...]
Belly-fat pill, part two.
Interesting: another company claiming to have a partial solution to abdominal fat, “anticipated to be an effective means of controlling the accumulation of intra-abdominal fat, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Targacept
Targacept’s medication for depression/anti-anxiety looks promising. It’s doing well so far, in its Phase II trial results.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Safest painkiller ever, if it works.
Although companies such as Pozen and Horizon Therapeutics, among others, are trying to make safer painkillers by combining antacids with over-the-counter pain relievers, Biolipox is actually trying to make the “perfect” painkiller. They hope to do so by engineering a painkiller that doesn’t block the heart and stomach-protecting substances called prostaglandins.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Body’s own feel-good chemical and painkiller: endomorphin
Neurotide is developing pain medication based on endomorphins, the body’s own “feel good” chemical, which also helps block pain signals.
Wow!
Belly fat: here today, gone tomorrow?
A pill that melts belly fat?
According to Innodia, yes! Its product Adyvia is currently in Phase II clinical trials.
If this truly is the drug it’s purported to be, this will definitely be a blockbuster drug.
