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ST. DAVID'S, Bermuda, June 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Warner Chilcott Limited (Nasdaq:WCRX) announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a 150 mg strength of DORYX(r) (doxycycline hyclate) Delayed-Release Tablets. DORYX Delayed-Release Tablets are a tetracycline-class oral antibiotic indicated for adjunctive treatment of severe acne. DORYX Delayed-Release Tablets contain enteric-coated pellets of doxycycline hyclate which do not release until they reach the...

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., and BOSTON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (FSMA) and Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced they have extended and significantly expanded their joint research and development collaboration to develop a drug candidate for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the leading genetically inherited cause of death of children under the age of two years. The collaboration is focused on optimizing and advancing into the clinic a novel...

By Finsterer, Josef; Kuntscher, Dagmar; Brunner, Simon; Krugluger, Walter Abstract Objective. The association of pseudotumor cerebri, visual impairment, hypothyroidism, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and a hypercoagulable state due to a factor V and a prothrombin mutation has not been reported previously. Case report. A 20-year-old obese woman developed menstrual cycle irregularities since age 14 years, initially bitemporal and latter diffuse headache since age 14 years, and bilateral...

A tetracycline antibiotic, doxycycline, has been successfully used to treat a wide-range of bacterial infections. In addition to its effects as an antibiotic, doxycycline has other actions as a drug and, in laboratory studies with animals and with human tissue, can inhibit the degradation of cartilage in a way that could be useful for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). OA is a common form of arthritis associated with pain and disability related to the breakdown of cartilage, the tissue in...