Infopirate.org

The universal chemical reference site which allows to find chemicals by their scientific name, international number, and also their reaction databases

The site has a comprehensive and searchable application guide to chiral chromatography (cHPLC). Hundreds of chiral separations (with chromatograms and references) of drugs and other substances on CHIRAL-AGP, CHIRAL-CBH and CHIRAL-HSA.

Herceptin, an expensive drug which improves the chances of women battling an aggressive type of breast cancer, will be available for free from the beginning of next year, The Sunday Times has learnt.

The tender for the purchase of this treatment will be issued in the Government Gazette on Friday, Health Parliamentary Secretary Joe Cassar confirmed when contacted by the newspaper.

Recent meetings have been held in Thailand between the Drug Enforcement Agencies of countries in the Pacific Rim. The major topic is the emphasis being put on elimination of West African, and primarily Nigerian, drug rings that have been using local Asian women from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines as drug couriers.

For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by taking a new approach: breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims’ brains.