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Scientists identify agent that can block fibrosis of skin, lungs

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified an agent that in lab tests protected the skin and lungs from fibrosis, a process that can ultimately end in organ failure and even death because ...

Medical research created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A silver bullet to beat cancer?

The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects.

Cancer created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New blood thinner may help prevent leg clots, study finds

(HealthDay)—The new anti-clotting drug apixaban (Eliquis) appears to help prevent potentially fatal blood clots in patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a new Italian study finds.

Medications created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First study on long-term cognitive effects of breast cancer CMF chemotherapy finds subtle impairment

Dutch investigators have reported that women who received CMF chemotherapy (a combination regimen including the drugs cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil) for breast cancer between 1976 and 1995 scored worse ...

Cancer created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop new technology to screen and analyze genetic mutations

A single change to even one of the thousands of DNA codes that make up each gene in the human genome can result in severe diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy or Huntington's Disease. A similarly minor ...

Genetics created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

People with low risk for cocaine dependence have differently shaped brain to those with addiction

People who take cocaine over many years without becoming addicted have a brain structure which is significantly different from those individuals who developed cocaine-dependence, researchers have discovered. New research ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal ways to make personalized cancer therapies more cost effective

As scientists continue making breakthroughs in personalized cancer treatment, delivering those therapies in the most cost effective manner has become increasingly important. Now researchers at the University of Colorado School ...

Cancer created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neurons that control overeating also drive appetite for cocaine

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have zeroed in on a set of neurons in the part of the brain that controls hunger, and found that these neurons are not only associated with overeating, but also linked to non-food associated ...

Neuroscience created Jun 24, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New drug could combat killer diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Reading have developed a new drug which could reduce the spread of deadly diseases such as Lassa Fever and Aseptic Meningitis.

Medical research created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Through-the-nipple breast cancer therapy shows promise in early tests

Delivering anticancer drugs into breast ducts via the nipple is highly effective in animal models of early breast cancer, and has no major side effects in human patients, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer ...

Cancer created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer's growing burden: the high cost of care

Patti Tyree was afraid that cancer would steal her future. Instead, the cost of treating it has.

Cancer created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Vaccination strategy may hold key to ridding HIV infection from immune system

Using human immune system cells in the lab, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins have figured out a way to kill off latent forms of HIV that hide in infected T cells long after antiretroviral therapy has successfully stalled viral ...

Immunology created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find better way to save sight

People who are losing their eyesight through aged-related macular degeneration (AMD) may soon be able to find out if a commonly used drug can help save their vision.

Ophthalmology created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers to develop new diagnostic test for Chagas disease

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Georgia will soon begin a study designed to identify new ways of determining treatment efficacy in Chagas disease, a potentially fatal tropical disease ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sequencing project will map DNA of up to 100,000 patients

A new £100m project will map the DNA of up to 100,000 patients with cancer and other rare diseases.

Genetics created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0