http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-vitamin-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:09:53 EST news282496186 The search for a cure for deadly infectious diseases has led Brian Murphy deep underwater. Murphy, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is collecting actinomycete bacteria from water throughout the world in a hunt for new antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-key-tuberculosis-underwater.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:43:41 EST news281965413 (Medical Xpress)—Pharmacy researchers at the University of Florida have isolated a new marine compound they believe may lead to improved drug therapies for pulmonary diseases by inhibiting their progression rather than managing their symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-marine-compound-discovery-drug-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:20:02 EST news281262909 A Basque research consortium has managed to stop the development of colon cancer and its liver metastasis in an experimental model using mice. This breakthrough, which could open new avenues for the future treatment of these pathologies, has been achieved by creating molecules that interfere with the tumour cells adhering to other cells in the body. In this way, these molecules stop both the tumour growth and the spreading of tumour cells to other organs and their subsequent proliferation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-molecules-colon-cancer-metastasis.html Cancer Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:50:05 EST news280052957 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to quickly grasp what a University of Mississippi professor's research could mean to the millions of people addicted to hardcore narcotics such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and morphine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-addicts.html Addiction Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:35:06 EST news278577297 An international research collaboration led by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the University of Dundee, in the U.K., have developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at once. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-paves-drugs-aimed-multiple-protein.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:16 EST news274533992 Doctors should use different therapies when treating older and younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-older-younger-chronic-leukemia-patients.html Cancer Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:05:51 EST news274536342 (Medical Xpress)—An outbreak of fungal meningitis recently resulted in one of the worst public health disasters in recent U.S. history. Thirty-two people died and more than 400 became ill after the New England Compounding Center distributed contaminated vials of injectable steroids. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-two-faced-drugs-hidden-killers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:14:33 EST news274436057 (Medical Xpress)—The work of a team of Wake Forest researchers developing a novel drug for prostate cancer treatment is featured on the cover of the Nov. 26 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-treatment-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:42:07 EST news273397310 (Medical Xpress)—Chemists and vision scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have designed a light-sensitive molecule that can stimulate a neural response in cells of the retina and brain—a possible first step to overcoming degenerative eye diseases like age-related macular degeneration, or to quieting epileptic seizures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-photo-switch-nerve-cells-eye-brain.html Medical research Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:22:21 EST news272128914 Scientists are reporting development of a new malaria drug that, in laboratory tests, has been twice as effective as the best current medicine against this global scourge and may fight off the disease with one dose, instead of the multiple doses that people often fail to take. A report on the drug appears in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-malaria-drug-requires-dose-effective.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:10:01 EST news269701073 Scientists at USC have discovered a new type of drug for the treatment of ovarian cancer that works in a way that should not only decrease the number of doses that patients need to take, but also may make it effective for patients whose cancer has become drug-resistant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-drug-resistant-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:48:24 EST news268494489 (Medical Xpress)—A new molecule designed to treat Alzheimer's disease has significant promise and is potentially the safest to date, according to researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-purdue-designed-molecule-closer-alzheimer-treatment.html Medical research Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:51:20 EST news268469464 Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered a new class of treatment against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as well as evidence of a growing need to quickly genotype individual strains of the organism most commonly referred to as the "superbug." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-class-anti-bacterial-drugs-mrsa.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:03:04 EST news268408972 When Linda Tuttle was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined her experience would inspire her colleagues to design new treatments to tackle the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-trojan-horse-drug-therapy-approach.html Cancer Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:20:01 EST news268330092 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital have been awarded £1.4 million to design a new drug for the treatment of chronic pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-drug-chronic-pain.html Medical research Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:40:01 EST news265018693 With the cost of putting a single new drug on the pharmacy shelves topping a staggering $1 billion, scientists are reporting development of a way to determine if an already-approved drug might be used to treat a different disease. 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Their findings, which may provide the basis for anti-malarial drug development, are currently published in the online version of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-anti-malarial-drug.html Medical research Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:18:35 EST news261937109 University of Granada researchers have tested melatonin analogues in rats that inhibit the enzyme nitric oxide synthase, which is involved in the development of the diseases referred above. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-substances-alzheimer-parkinson-disease.html Medical research Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:33:16 EST news258802352 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified new targets for drugs that could potentially treat anthrax, the deadly infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-potential-anthrax-drug.html Medical research Wed, 09 May 2012 04:27:34 EST news255756442 Purdue University researchers revealed how a mutation in a protein shuts down a protective function needed to prevent the death of neurons in Parkinson's disease, possibly opening the door to new drug strategies to treat the disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-purdue-reveal-role-protein-mutation.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:39:26 EST news249050344 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a potential alternative to conventional antibiotics that could fight infection with a reduced risk of antibiotic resistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-potential-antibiotic-alternative-infection-resistance.html Medical research Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:48:38 EST news248946501 (Medical Xpress) -- A University of Kansas researcher has made a discovery that should lead to improved treatments for prostate and breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-enzyme-linked-prostate-breast-cancers.html Cancer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:53:35 EST news246693202 Most people understand that serious weight loss requires changing attitudes toward what they eat and how often they exercise. But, what if the process could be aided by simply chewing a stick of gum after meals? That's the question a team of scientists, led by Syracuse University chemist Robert Doyle, is trying to answer. 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