Oncology & Cancer
Implantable oxygen-eating batteries help kill cancer
Despite decades of research and tens of billions of dollars for research and treatments worldwide, the battle against cancer continues.
News tagged with drug therapies
Neuroscience
How the brain fights off fears that return to haunt us
Neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a group of cells in the brain that are responsible when a frightening memory re-emerges unexpectedly, like Michael Myers in every "Halloween" movie. The ...
Apr 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
Drug helps mouse and monkey brains recover from stroke
A team of researchers from several institutions in Japan has found that a certain drug in conjunction with physical therapy has resulted in improved recovery from a stroke in mice and monkeys. In their paper published in ...
HIV & AIDS
New drug capsule may allow weekly HIV treatment
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a capsule that can deliver a week's worth of HIV drugs in a single dose. This advance could make it much easier for patients to adhere to the strict schedule ...
Jan 9, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
Researchers find tough new obstacle to HIV cure strategies
(Medical Xpress)—It's a good news/bad news scenario: Researchers have made a new discovery about HIV that will redirect curative strategies toward latent reservoirs of HIV—that's the good news. The bad news is that they ...
HIV & AIDS
Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV
(Medical Xpress)—Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving surrounding cells unharmed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
Mar 8, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Combining CAR-T cells and inhibitor drugs for high-risk neuroblastoma
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is a potent emerging weapon against cancer, altering patients' T cells so they can better find and destroy tumor cells. But CAR-T cell therapy doesn't work well in every cancer—including ...
Mar 1, 2024
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Medical research
Case study: Drug-resistant bacteria responds to phage-antibiotic combo therapy
It was a last-ditch effort. For years doctors had tried to keep a patient's recurrent drug-resistant bacterial blood infection at bay, but it kept coming back and antibiotics were no longer working.
Feb 14, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Innovative modeling may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to treatment
Monash University-led research is using math to predict how new combination therapies can help patients with breast cancer who no longer respond to conventional therapies.
Feb 5, 2024
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Medical research
New drug halts growth of aggressive breast cancer in pre-clinical study
A promising drug could lead to a new treatment for the most aggressive form of breast cancer, which affects thousands of women each year. A pre-clinical study led by the University of Adelaide found the new drug successfully ...
Feb 5, 2024
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