Ayurvedic Medicines

New evidence suggests that acupuncture may help treat some of the common side effects of hormonal drugs called aromatase inhibitors. Aromatase inhibitors, such as anastrozole (Arimidex®), exemestane (Aromasin®) and letrozole (Femara®), are used to treat hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women

We’ve all been out at the pub getting a seasonal pint, or down at the deli getting a tea and some salad, when you overhear someone next to you say, “I don’t know, I just don’t think that global warming thing is real. At least, it’s not our fault…” Or maybe it’s the friend you’re [ Skeptical Science iPhone App: Overcoming Global Warming Deniers from Green Living Ideas ]

A conservative economist at a state college who was paid $54,000 to write a false report on California’s global warming cap and trade bill has backed off his claims after Stanford University economists criticized the business-funded study as “very, very defective.” An industry group, falsely naming itself  “AB32 Implementation Group” AB32IG.com paid  Sanjay [ False-Flag AB32 “Implementation” Group is Dealt Another Setback from Green Living Ideas ]

This week kicked off with some interesting emails and alerts in my inbox. You may well be wondering what on earth rheumatoid arthritis and colorectal cancer have in common.  The answer is that yet more agents in development have bitten the dust.

Last night many people in the NY-NJ-CT region missed the Oscars beamed from the Academy Awards after an argument over money between CableVision and ABC.  If a Biotech company and their big Pharma partner has a spat, it is rarely as public or has as much impact as TV deals do, but the shock waves can certainly be felt through the investor community every time a high profile predatory shareholder such as Carl Icahn gets their teeth into a biotech such as Genzyme or Biogen IDEC . It was interesting that the year’s biggest grossing, most expensive and stunning film, ‘Avatar’, lost out to a smaller, niche film about the Iraqi war, ‘The Hurt Locker’, with a stronger plot, storyline and superb acting.  It’s a bit like a baby Biotech producing a string of new products with solid efficacy doing well, much as Genentech did with Herceptin , Tarceva and Avastin or Amgen did in their early days with Neupogen and Epogen .  Eventually, of course, the new kid on the block becomes household name and new companies rise behind them with new science and a solid underpinning.

It’s been a frantic week on the work front and today was no different, but I wanted to highlight a really interesting slide from the BMS pipeline presentation yesterday afternoon. Here’s one of the slides Elliot Sigal, President of R&D, showed from one of the ipilimumab trials.

“After Terence died, Flaherty drew me a picture of a bell curve, showing the range of survival times for kidney cancer sufferers. Terence was way off in the tail on the right-hand side, an indication he had indeed beaten the odds. An explosion of research had made it possible to extend lives for years — enough to keep our quest from having been total madness.

A chance email yesterday from Matthew Herper of Forbes Health got me thinking.  He was interested in whether a company, who have been successful in other therapeutic areas, could do well in cancer

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