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For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary arteries, according to a new large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and others. The results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Scientists at King’s have discovered a new cause for asthma that sparks hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease.

The breakthrough research by TATA memorial centre scientists who have developed a tablet which reduces side effects of cancer treatment and prevent resurgence or relapse of cancer said Dr Rajendra Badwe, Director of the Tata Memorial Centre in an interview with NDTV. The said tablet will be available at an affordable price of Rs. 100 a tablet.

Orchid Pharma, based in Chennai, India, has received approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its novel invention, ‘Enmetazobactam’. This development comes in close succession to the recent recommendation for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Enmetazobactam is the first completely invented-in-India Beta Lactamase Inhibitor.

Results from a Phase 2b clinical trial, published today in The Lancet by researchers led by King’s, provides hope for arthritis sufferers after it was shown that the biologic drug abatacept reduces progression to this agonising chronic inflammatory disease.

Vinay Kumar Singh.  
Head-Formulation
Kumar Organic Products Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.,
Bengaluru
Email : formulation_krc@kopresearchcentre.net

Vinay Kumar Singh.  
Head-Formulation
Kumar Organic Products Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.,
Bengaluru
Email : formulation_krc@kopresearchcentre.net

A new pharmacological inhibitor can intervene in a central cell death mechanism that is responsible for the death of motor neurons and hence important for the progression of the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A research team led by Prof. Dr Hilmar Bading, neurobiologist at Heidelberg University, examined a neuroprotective molecule that belongs to a novel drug class. It is able to inhibit the interactions of certain proteins and has been successfully tested in a mouse model of ALS and in brain organoids of ALS patients.

Research throws light on the mystery of why women are much more prone to autoimmune disorders: A molecule made by one X chromosome in every female cell can generate antibodies to a woman’s own tissues.