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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Cour Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc. announced a partnership to research and develop novel immune modulating therapies for the potential treatment of celiac disease. The partnership will focus on using nanotechnologies based on Cour’s Tolerizing Immune Modifying nanoParticle (TIMP) platform, which can be extended to certain autoimmune and allergic conditions by inhibiting the abnormal immune responses that cause disease, without affecting the beneficial parts of the immune system.

Shri Ananth Kumar said that he is also pushing for the idea for a separate Ministry of Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices, so as to give a boost to the sector at the Annual Conference of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices in New Delhi. It plays important role in promotion, encouragement, enabling atmosphere and regulation in a good measure so that quality affordable drugs are available to the common masses of the country, as per minister.

The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) - India, Andhra Pradesh Regional Chapter head office at Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research – RIPER, in association with Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) Anantapuramu Branch and Rural Development Trust (RDT) Hospitals Bathalapalli, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh organized an One day “National Symposium on Exploring New Insights of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research” on 5 December 2015 at RDT hospitals.

A team of researchers led by the University of Georgia has identified several biological markers that make it possible to classify mental disorders with greater precision. The findings may lead to improved diagnostics and treatments for those suffering from mental illness.

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Children with allergic disease, particularly asthma and hay fever, have twice the rate of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, setting them on course for heart disease at early age, finds a new study.

Five in six women with increased risk of breast cancer turn down drugs that are likely to prevent the disease, finds cancer research scientists in Britain.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have worked with Coventry-based Medherant, a Warwick spinout company, to produce and patent the World’s first ever ibuprofen patch delivering the drug directly through skin to exactly where it is needed at a consistent dose rate.