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Goldstein • Special communications Clinical research is an important process that provides opportunities to develop significant advances in medical practice. As a clinical scientist for almost 20 years, I have enjoyed the privilege of collaborating with many colleagues on projects designed to enhance analgesia in patients with cancer and in those who are recovering from surgery. My prior clinic...

In this paper recent research is reviewed on the effects of yoga poses on psychological conditions including anxiety and depression, on pain syndromes, cardiovascular, autoimmune and immune conditions and on pregnancy. Further, the physiological effects of yoga including decreased heartrate and blood pressure and the physical effects including weight loss and increased muscle strength are revie...

Clinical research is extremely important to advance medical care. It is impossible to predict how a drug will perform in humans given their complexities, based only on in vitro and animal studies. On the other hand protection of research subjects is not only a scientific question but one of human rights, vis-a-vis the recent past when abuses were committed even in the so-called civilized societ...

46 INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Winter 2013 Volume 5 Issue 4 A future without antibiotics is deemed to be bleak, if bacteria continue to develop new resistance mechanisms and the pharmaceutical industry have to produce novel classes of antibiotics at the existing rate. Things may change, though. Recently, a UK-based company announced a major collaboration in the fight against resistanc...

The effi cacy of the sulfones in the trea tment of leprosy was proven in a controll ed study by Doull et al. (5), but, because it takes several years to arrest the disease in a case of leprosy and make it bacteriologically negative, search for more effective drugs has continued to the present time. Several drugs found effective in human leprosy have been evaluated by Doull (5) and Doull et aT. ...