Saturday, September 2, 2017

Ancient Chinese medicine for malaria could potentially aid in treatment of tuberculosis

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In continuation of my update on  Artemisinin A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effecti...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Combination therapy holds great promise to clear precancerous skin lesions

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A combination of two FDA-approved drugs - a topical chemotherapy and an immune-system-activating compound - was able to rapidly clear acti...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

FDA awards accelerated approval to new ovarian cancer drug

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In continuation of my update on Rubraca                                          The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today grante...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Antibiotic gel shows promise in preventing onset of Lyme borreliosis following tick bite

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In continuation of my update on azithromycin An antibiotic gel based on azithromycin, an antibiotic with antibacterial properties, hel...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

UT Southwestern researchers find new way to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria in burn injuries

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A new way to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria by blinding them rather than killing them proved highly effective in a model of burn injur...
Friday, August 25, 2017

New Application of Existing Drug Offers Personalized Therapy for Lung Cancer

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A subset of lung tumours is exquisitely sensitive to a class of recently approved anti-cancer drugs. Researchers at the CeMM Research Cent...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Moderate coffee consumption may offer protection against age-related cognitive decline

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A new report from the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC), a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the study and disclo...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Platypus venom shows potential for new diabetes treatments

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  Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

New treatment prevents chemotherapy-induced hearing loss in children with cancer

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Investigators from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and 37 other Children's Oncology Group hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have de...
Monday, August 21, 2017

New drug treatment can override genetic fault that causes choroideremia

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Researchers with funding from Fight for Sight have demonstrated that a new drug treatment for cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystro...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Hallucinogenic drug offers relief for people with cancer-related anxiety or depression

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In continuation of my update on psilocybin In a small double-blind study, Johns Hopkins researchers report that a substantial majority...