News tagged with medical pharmacology

Glucose deprivation activates feedback loop that kills cancer cells: study

Compared to normal cells, cancer cells have a prodigious appetite for glucose, the result of a shift in cell metabolism known as aerobic glycolysis or the "Warburg effect." Researchers focusing on this effect as a possible ...

Cancer Jun 26, 2012 | 4.9 / 5 (16) | 23 |

Scientists uncover mechanism for melanoma drug resistance

Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it.

Cancer Mar 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Study could explain why some people get zits and others don't

The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone's skin, yet one in five people is lucky enough to develop only an occasional pimple over a lifetime. What's their secret?

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Feb 28, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Bilirubin can prevent damage from cardiovascular disease

Each year, about 610,000 Americans suffer their first heart attack, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart attacks and other symptoms of cardiovascular disease can be caused when ...

Cardiology Dec 06, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Discovery could increase efficacy of promising cystic fibrosis drug

(Medical Xpress)—A little more than a year after the FDA approved Kalydeco (Vx-770), the first drug of its kind to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, University of Missouri researchers believe ...

Medical research Mar 21, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Second mutation in BRAF-mutated melanoma doesn't contribute to resistance

A second mutation found in the tumors of patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma does not contribute to resistance to BRAF inhibitor drugs, a finding that runs counter to what scientists expected to be true.

Cancer Apr 01, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Sexual and social behaviour modified by serotonin system drugs

Drugs that bind to specific serotonin receptors in the brain can both improve and impair female sexual function in non-human primates. These are the findings of a study conducted by Leiden PhD candidate Yves ...

Medications Dec 12, 2012 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0