This past week there has been a new drug discovery that assists in the clotting of platelets. This drug is effective for treating a rare blood disorder that is related to hemophilia and that can cause excessive bleeding that can lead to death.

The good news is that, the Food and Drug Administration said that the new drug discovery from researchers at Amgen can be ready for distribution and sale in the United States.

This is an inject able drug that helps simulate bone marrow. It mimics bodily functions to fool the brain into thinking the body can produce platelet, The idea is that that the body thinks it is producing blood platelets and acts normally in response to a cu tor an injury and thereby compensates for the disorder.

The specific rare blood disorder that it can assist is called h chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura. The disease destroys platelet ceils and the lower platelet levels trigger bleeding. People with condition are also more like to bruise very easily and this new drug discovery is also apt for preventing that condition as well.

The release of this drug is fortuitous as there are not many drugs currently available that do successfully treat this disease.

There is one caveat however. The FDA approved its use for patients only as a last resort and after other available treatments fail to help. This means that already approved ITP treatments include steroids, immune-suppressing drugs or surgery to remove the spleen would be tried first.

In terms of cost the drug is expected to be comparable in cost to other standard treatment regiments.

GlaxoSmithKline is putting out a rival drug, Promacta, or eltrombopag, faces an FDA approval decision by September 19. Angen is the first company to actually register the drug.

Angen says that it will seek approval for the drug in other countries including Canada, Switzerland, Australia and countries in Europe.

Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a new medication for fighting flu and cold symptoms. It is a liquid  made from aloe vera that when sprayed into the nose turns into a proactive layer of jelly.

This is a part of a larger directive to try and fight the bird flu epidemic that scientists have been predicting will be the next epidemic and be a threat in the near future. The vaccine also has the potential for other uses such as preventing other types of viruses such as the common cold and also protecting people (such as nurses and doctors) in hospitals.

The jelly is not just a physical layer of protection. It is also an absorbable vaccine. This unique drug discovery is funded by a six million dollar grant from the NIH (National Instates of Health) and is being developed by DelSite Biotechnologies in conjunction with the Texas teams. The key to this drug’s success has largely to do with how the vaccine is being delivered into the body. It is key to the success of using aloe vera leaves. The aloe vera is machinated into a powder so that it is chemically pure. It is then combined with the flu vaccine and sprayed up the nostrils where the jelly forms the protective layer. This jelly is very natural and is absorbed very easily and naturally into the body. It gives it more staying power and time to do its work.

All that will be needed in the future to protect the body from the flu is two or three puffs of this stuff into the nose. It is more effective than a normal spray because it stays inside the nose and lines the nostril. A powder form of the aloe vera plant was also experimented with but it also was not ery effective. However it can be stored in a powdered form and then mixed up when needed to put into the nose. This is good because it means millions of doses can be stored and used in an emergency in the case of a pandemic case of bird flu.

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Scientists are on their way to a new prescription drug discovery that might help fight bird flu. The drug might also be beneficial for treating other strains of flu as well.

Researchers have managed to figure out the structure of the influenza A virus that is similar to the proteins in the virus expected to be in the bird flu virus. This protein is what suppresses a person’s defenses and makes them vulnerable to additional illnesses. Including virulent ones like the upcoming Bird Flu. The Bird Flu is classified as an influenza A just like the other “plague viruses” that came before it including the virus that characterized the pandemic flu in 1918.

These researchers have discovered how to prevent this protein found in A type flu viruses from binding to human cells and thereby preventing infection completely. Once bound to NS1 the human protein can no longer generate molecules needed to suppress flu virus replication. The drug will, in a sense be able to locate the Achilles heel of the infection and combat it completely.

The discovery of this protein and how it could be used to create a new drug appears in PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Early Edition and will be published in an upcoming issue of the PNAS print edition.

This project was supported by two different institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As in many other countries these two studies are complimenting each other. Support for the research was provided by the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) of the NIH Institute of General Medical Sciences

These studies are also part of follow-on to the human genome project, which is providing large numbers of protein samples and three-dimensional structures of biologically important proteins to the broad scientific community so they can do valuable research with regards to fighting plague type viruses and potential pandemics.

According to the blogger at Mind Hacks a new drug has been created to treat a new disorder that few of us have hardly heard of. Mind Hacks is a blog that is somewhat suspicious if any type of diagnosed psychological disorder and also psychiatric diagnosis and it is a bit dubious about the legitimacy of DSCACDAD, The blog implies that this is one of these disorders that was actually created to help sell a drug.

The life changing new prescription drug is called Havidol. The proper chemical name for this drug is Avafynetyme HCl) and you could find it marketed or prescribed under either name in the future. It is probably going to be expensive so remember the generic name for it as well.

So just what exactly does having this disorder entail? The symptoms are very broad and include feeling nervous or tense for no reason, worrying all the time about life, being fatigued, being controlling, obsessing about weight, obsessing at aging, feeling stress at work or all of the sudden. Skeptical types simply describe this as being part of the human condition and are not impressed by the disorder in the least. Many of the concerns that are actually symptoms are legit imitate worries such as worrying about one’s weight. Should this type of symptom really be treated as an illness? Should life issues really be treated with meds.

The drug works by targeting the recently discovered hormone called heroine. Hedonine works by boosting the brain’s reward system. It is a solution for when “feeling better is

Havidol joins other next generation drugs Fukitol, Panexa, Progenitorivox and Proloxil as medications that not only affect the brain, but also seem to be treated to create life issues, psychologal issues and matters to do with spirituality.