Archive: 24/02/2012
Doctors find new way to predict recurrent stroke
New research from the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) shows that using a CT (computerised tomography) scan, doctors can predict if patients who have had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke, ...
Feb 24, 2012
One-two punch: Cancer therapy more potent when it hits two targets
Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have foundwork ...
Feb 24, 2012
A new radiotherapy technique significantly reduces irradiation of healthy tissue
Researchers at the University of Granada and the university hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada have developed a new radiotherapy technique that is much less toxic than that traditionally used and only targets cancerous ...
Feb 24, 2012
New knowledge on the pharmacology of dopamine stabilizers
A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that a new drug for Huntington's disease pridopidine or dopamine stabiliser ACR16 might operate via previously unknown mechanisms of action. Researchers have ...
Feb 24, 2012