The Los Angeles Times is reporting how a team of researchers from the City of Hope in Duarte has developed a speedy way to identify drugs and chemicals that can disrupt the balance of sex hormones in human beings and influence the development and progress of diseases such as breast cancer. In a trial screening of 446 drugs in wide …
Takeda, makers of Actos, Scraps Development of Type 2 Diabetes Drug
Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda is dropping plans to develop diabetes drug fasiglifam (TAK-875) because clinical trials showed participants developed dangerous side effects, including possible liver damage. This comes as a blow for the drugmaker as it scrambles to find another drug to take the place of its once best-selling Type 2 diabetes drug Actos. Takeda lost patent protection for Actos …