Neuroscience
New treatment shows promise against fatal neurological disease: Study
A new treatment shows promise against the deadly neurodegenerative disease ALS, a study based on mice showed Tuesday.
Jan 31, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Measuring changes in brain tissue oxygenation for personalized cancer radiotherapy
Radiotherapy, which uses high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells, typically follows a dosing and treatment plan based on clinical research to minimize the impact of the radiation on healthy tissues. However, since the ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Medications
Study results show conjugate therapy produced remissions in one-third of patients with drug-resistant ovarian cancer
In an internationally conducted clinical trial lead by Dana-Farber involving patients with recurrent ovarian cancer that is resistant to platinum therapy, a novel conjugate therapy called mirvetuximab soravtansine resulted ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Being lonely and unhappy accelerates aging more than smoking, study finds
Molecular damage accumulates and contributes to the development of aging-related frailty and serious diseases. In some people these molecular processes are more intense than in others, a condition commonly referred to as ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Medications
Medicare program spent $1.8 billion in 2019 on drugs without confirmed clinical benefits
The U.S. federal government spent an estimated $1.8 billion in Medicare funds in 2019 on drugs whose clinical benefits have yet to be confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration, a new study led by researchers from the ...
May 24, 2022
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Medical research
Head and neck positioning affects concussion risk
If you're about to run headfirst into something, your reflex might be to tense your neck and stabilize your noggin. But according to new research from Stanford University that may not be the best way to stave off a concussion. ...
Aug 22, 2018
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Neuroscience
Why your brain tires when exercising
A marathon runner approaches the finishing line, but suddenly the sweaty athlete collapses to the ground. Everyone probably assumes that this is because he has expended all energy in his muscles. What few people know is that ...
Mar 4, 2013
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Medications
Many cancer drugs still unproven 5 years after accelerated approval
New research questions the effectiveness of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's accelerated drug approval program after finding that many cancer drugs remain unproven five years later.
Apr 8, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
FDA approves first CAR T-cell therapy for adults with leukemia or lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Bristol Myers Squibb's Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel [liso-cel]) as the first CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for adult patients with relapsed ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Assessing the impact of fast-track drug approval programs
Over the past decade, regulatory agencies such as the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States and the and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in the European Union have put programs in place to get new drugs ...
Mar 13, 2024
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