Newsmaker: Agios Pharmaceuticals

Newsmaker of the year: In the eye of the storm.

Jane Lubchenco smiles as a dolphin leaps out of the water, arcs in the air and splashes back down just a few metres away. The 63-year-old marine ecologist is out on a boat near Pascagoula, Mississippi, with a team of researchers studying how the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has affected dolphin communities there. On this October day, Lubchenco wears starfish-shaped earrings and a cap ...

Smart Pharmaceuticals

Ecotoxicology of human pharmaceuticals.

Low levels of human medicines (pharmaceuticals) have been detected in many countries in sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents, surface waters, seawaters, groundwater and some drinking waters. For some pharmaceuticals effects on aquatic organisms have been investigated in acute toxicity assays. The chronic toxicity and potential subtle effects are only marginally known, however. Here, we critic...

Pharmaceuticals and Sport

His activities extend to the International Federation of Sports Medicine (he is an officer of the Federation and its Treasurer) and the Association of Olympic Physicians. His numerous scientific papers have been translated into several languages and have been the subject of lectures given in the various continents. We thank him cordially for allowing us to publish his study on pharmaceuticals a...

Technology Overview: Pharmaceuticals

This overview has been prepared by staff at the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) and is based in part on a study commissioned by CCOHTA: Efficacy, effectiveness, and cost analysis of nitrate therapy for the prevention of angina pectoris conducted by Holbrook AM , Dolovich L , Grootendorst P , Brogran T , Kitching A, Crossley T . Centre for Evaluation of Med...