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Keep taking the tablets

Take your medicine: how research into supply chains will help you take care of yourself

14 Jun 2017

Researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to make improvements across the whole supply chain, from how a pill is made to the moment it is...

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Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan

13 Jun 2017

How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’...

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Financial cycles of acquisitions and ‘buybacks’ threaten public access to breakthrough drugs

28 Jul 2016

An analysis of a new drug’s journey to market, published today in the BMJ, shines a light on financial practices that see some major pharmaceutical...

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Sträng

Carrots and sticks fail to change behaviour in cocaine addiction

16 Jun 2016

People who are addicted to cocaine are particularly prone to developing habits that render their behaviour resistant to change, regardless of the...

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Diabetes

Genetic approach could help identify side-effects at early stages of drug development

01 Jun 2016

An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials has been demonstrated by a collaboration...

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Pills

Opinion: More accountability needed in how drugs are priced and reimbursed

23 May 2016

Lawrence King (Department of Sociology) and Piotr Ozieranski (University of Bath) discuss how EU member states use complex policy instruments to...

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Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science

26 Feb 2014

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for...

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Ball-and-stick model of the '''captopril''' molecule, an ACE inhibitor used for the treatment of hypertension

New research shows clear association between ACE inhibitors - drugs used to treat high blood pressure and heart disease - and acute kidney injury

06 Nov 2013

These and similar drugs are the second most prescribed on the NHS

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The skinny on cocaine

09 Aug 2013

New research suggests chronic cocaine use causes profound metabolic changes, reducing the body’s ability to store fat.

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Cocaine

Individuals with a low risk for cocaine dependence have a differently shaped brain to those with addiction

17 Jan 2013

Research provides unique insight into the often misunderstood world of addiction.

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The analgesic effects of cooling or menthol are disrupted by inflammation, but scientists have not been clear how inflammation interferes with cold perception, until now.

The sensation of cold is shut down by inflammation

01 Jul 2012

A mechanism regulating our sensation of cold has been identified.

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Eu, Christiane F., 13 anos drogada e prostituída (published by Bertrand Brasil)

Intoxicating history

18 May 2012

In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr...

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