Slentrol/Dirloapide (Got a fat dog?)
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Wow. It's not just anticancer drugs for dogs, there are also "lifestyle" drugs. They think they're people!...
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Molecules: You'd better learn to live with them.
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Wow. It's not just anticancer drugs for dogs, there are also "lifestyle" drugs. They think they're people!...
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A few months ago, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor anticancer drug for people, this month, one for dogs....
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Let's take a visit back to May 2006. The DJIA was above 11,000 and would continue to increase for more than a year. The Da Vinci Code was in theaters. Don Rumsfeld would continue to look very polished in his...
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Ready for some good news? Just now, Pfizer announced it was stopping Phase 3 trials of a new cancer treatment, Sutent, early - because it was working so well.
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I just read the excellent Not Rocket Science for the first time. He has a nice writeup of the propranolol story that is making the rounds. Some researchers conditioned some subjects to freak out when they saw a picture of...
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Levamisole is one of those drugs that was discovered quite awhile ago, when we had even less idea what target things were hitting. It's not used often in people these days. What's interesting about it is that it is occasionally...
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Loratadine is an antihistamine used for treatment of allergies. Its main distinguishing characteristic is that it is nonsedating, because the molecule minimally penetrates the barrier separating the brain from the bloodstream....
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Cyprodenate is an old-timey antidote for benzodiazepene overdose:...
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Absinthe, the storied liquor that Hemingway and other artists drank, was once thought to induce neurological effects far beyond that which could be explained by its alcohol content (which is almost always high - three-digit proof)....
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As I mentioned yesterday, derivatives of arylethylamines - phenethylamine in particular - are drug targets in depression, but a sophisticated mechanistic understanding remains elusive. When you have some idea what molecule you'd like less of, a favorite trick is to...
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