Medical research

Researchers publish new insights into COVID-19

Researchers at the Radboud University Medical Center seem to have found an essential mechanism in the disease process of COVID-19, which has so far been overlooked. If the insight is correct, it probably has important consequences ...

Neuroscience

Repurposing cancer drug to treat neuroinflammation

The repurposing of FDA-approved drugs for alternative diseases is a faster way of bringing new treatments into the clinic. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have repurposed a cancer drug for treatment of neuroinflammatory ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Key inflammatory markers identified in COVID-19

A new study involving the University of Liverpool has identified new biomarkers of inflammation that both indicate the severity of COVID-19 and distinguish it from severe influenza.

Medical research

Researchers discover why drug for severe COPD becomes less effective

Roflumilast, a drug recently approved in the United States to treat severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), increases the production of a protein that causes inflammation, which possibly results in patients developing ...

Medications

New drug shows promise against tough-to-manage asthma

An experimental injectable drug appears more versatile than existing medications in treating people with different forms of severe, hard-to-control asthma, clinical trial results show.

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