For many years, radioactive iodine which emits beta rays has been used for treatment of thyroid cancer. Generally, 5-year survival rates may exceed 90%. However, some thyroid tumors become resistant to iodine treatment ("iodine-refractory"), ...
Apr 2, 2019
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Over the past thirteen years, many Australian women have used the drug mifepristone (RU486) to bring about a medical abortion.
Apr 1, 2019
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The PneumoNP project aims at developing new inhaled nanotherapeutic formulations to combat lung infection. The novel drug is comprised of an antibiotic carried by a nanoparticle. For this project, Spanish researchers from ...
Mar 19, 2019
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New therapeutic molecules developed at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) show promise in reversing the memory loss linked to depression and aging.
Feb 14, 2019
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A new recipe for pills and tablets that includes oils and tiny porous particles can help your body absorb medicines more than twice as effectively.
Feb 13, 2019
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Patients undergoing long-term treatment with steroids may suffer from metabolic side effects. Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), partners in the German Center ...
Jan 25, 2019
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An important new article reviews recently discovered properties of adenosine A2A receptor-dopamine D2 receptor (A2AR-D2R) and adenosine A1 receptor-dopamine D1 receptor (A1R-D1R) heteromers—both of which are main targets ...
Jan 8, 2019
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A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has created a new mouse model of a common form of muscular dystrophy with the potential of rapidly distinguishing promising therapeutic drugs from those unlikely to be ...
Dec 12, 2018
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Children with cancer are to benefit nationally from a service which for the first time will allow doctors to personalise their treatment.
Nov 28, 2018
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Because mice do not respond to immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), preclinical therapeutic and safety studies of the effects of IMiDs have not been possible in existing types of mice. This has led to an inability to accurately ...
Nov 19, 2018
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