Here are a few brief news related to healthcare & pharmaceutical scenes for your update.
? AstraZeneca signed MOU with NCC & NUH
AstraZeneca has recently signed an MOU with NCC & NUH to agree to enter into a collaborative agreement that spans both clinical and pre-clinical development activities.
Under the terms of the clinical development collaboration, NCC & will be given access to AstraZeneca compounds which have already undergone initial clinical testing in other European countries or America.
For both clinical and pre-clinical activities, AstraZeneca retains the option to assume further development and marketing of all drugs made available as part of the partnership deal.
The collaboration aims to further build AstraZeneca's drug development capabilities in Asia and ultimately speed up access to new medicines of potential benefit to patients with inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma.
The partnership also includes a training program placement with the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, with whom AstraZeneca has a formal research alliance. Supported in part by the EDB, the training program seeks to train a pool of clinical research professionals for both private-sector and public-sector research labs.
? Red Bull Drink can be Dangerous: Australian Study
Recently, an energy drink - Red Bull - which is popular amongst students and as party cocktails, has been found to increase the risk of heart attack or stroke.
The caffeine-fortified beverage caused the blood to become sticky, a pre-cursor to cardiovascular problems such as stroke. Red Bull Australia spokeswoman said the report would be assessed by the company's head office in Austria.
The Australian medical researchers have reported that these risks will also affect young people. This claim was made in the researchers’ report after the team tested the cardiovascular systems of 30 young adults one hour before and one hour after consuming one 250ml can of sugar-free Red Bull..
The results showed "normal people develop symptoms normally associated with cardiovascular disease" after consuming the drink,.
Red Bull is created in the 1980s by Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz based on a similar Thai energy drink in Thailand. So far, it has been banned in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks listed on its cans, but the company last year sold 3.5 billion cans in 143 countries. One can contains 80 mg of caffeine, around the same as a normal cup of brewed coffee.
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