Volunteers are being recruited in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK to participate in a two-year trial of a single 'polypill' designed to prevent heart attack and stroke. The trials are financed in part by the UMPIRE (Use of a multidrug pill in reducing cardiovascular events) project, which has received EUR 3 million under the Health Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Consumer reliance on condition-focused content during the disease research process, growing emphasis on customer care throughout the treatment continuum, and uncertainty around the DTC regulatory environment is prompting increased interest in unbranded online initiatives.

The goal of the IT @ Networking Awards 2010 (IT @ 2010), is to honour and promote outstanding healthcare IT solutions. The core aim of IT @ 2010 is to learn from the achievements of the very best IT installations on the globe.

Physicians show continued adoption of mobile and social media for professional purposes, as well as increasing dependency on digital resources at the point of care, according to pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research's latest Taking the Pulse® study of over 2,000 U.S. physicians.

A paper published in The Lancet journal, as part of a series on renal medicine, has questioned if kidney regeneration may be possible in human beings as it is in fish and other lower vertebrates.

The economic recovery process has proved difficult for the pharmaceutical industry. Factors like patent expiry, dry pipeline, and strict approval guidelines, have slowed down the attractive drug discovery and industry growth. Coupled with an investment risk in new therapy or molecules, this creates a challenge for the industry to overcome.

According to the World Health Organization, about 33 million people currently live with HIV infections. Several drugs used to treat AIDS inhibit this HIV protease target, but drug-resistant mutants that impede the effectiveness of these drugs keep appearing and getting worse.