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  • National Institutes for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) and Pharma Industries signed 17 MoU to bridge gap betwwen academic education and industrial needs. One of the critical factors in building innovation ecosystem and for Drug Discovery is Academia-Industry linkage. Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) for the last one year has actively engaged both the NIPERs and the Pharma Industry to build partnership in areas of education, research and development.

  • Premature ejaculation including female sexual dysfunction should not be classified as an illness, argue researchers, adding that the illness factor may have been constructed by sexual medicine experts under the influence of drug companies.

  • Once they enter memory, depressive thoughts can linger for long in affected people, and this extended duration may reduce the amount of information that these individuals can remember, suggests new research.

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  • Particulate matter and nitric dioxide emissions from industrial plants or vehicles increase the risk of heart attacks, despite being within 'safe' levels of air pollution, a new study has claimed. The study examined the effect of short term exposure to air pollution on the risk of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This type of myocardial infarction (heart attack) has the worst prognosis and is caused by thrombotic occlusion of a coronary artery that damages the heart.

  • ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company with GSK, Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, announced that the Phase IIb study LATTE 2 (NCT02120352) met its primary endpoint at 32 weeks. These results show that the investigational, long acting, injectable formulations of cabotegravir (ViiV Healthcare) and rilpivirine (Janssen) were comparable in maintaining viral suppression rates to a three drug oral regimen of investigational cabotegravir and two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). The 32 week results of LATTE 2 will be presented at a forthcoming scientific conference. ViiV Healthcare and Janssen Sciences Ireland UC (Janssen) are collaborating to conduct LATTE 2.

  • GSK and Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, announced the initiation of a phase I clinical trial designed to evaluate GSK’s investigational immunotherapy GSK3174998 as monotherapy and  in combination with Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) in patients with locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic solid tumour(s) that have progressed after standard treatment.

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