Medical research
Availability of drugs as implants could expand, thanks to MRI maps
What if a drug you need every single day of your life could be implanted into your body so that you don't have to remember to take a pill?
Nov 14, 2019
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Journal of Controlled Release
Oncology & Cancer
Researchers renew obsolete concept by using folate for cancer drug delivery
NIBIB-funded biomedical engineers at the Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated a new method for delivering an anti-cancer drug in a study that tested the effect in animal models. When formulated within a membrane ...
Sep 9, 2019
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Medical research
Tumor macrophage marker offers unique target for treatment
Macrophages are white blood cells that accumulate in tumors, where they aid cancer progression. Now scientists have identified a surface protein found only on the macrophages residing in tumors, exposing a target for precise ...
Aug 2, 2019
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Medications
Device could automatically deliver drug to reverse opioid overdose
Opioid users tend to be alone and incapacitated during an overdose. Purdue University researchers are developing a device that would automatically detect an overdose and deliver naloxone, a drug known to reverse deadly effects.
Jul 24, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Shot could remove side effects from late-stage head and neck cancer therapy
For advanced stages of head and neck cancer, one of the best treatments is so aggressive that it could bring tooth decay, speech loss, constant nausea or all of the above.
Jun 25, 2019
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Ultrasound method restores dopaminergic pathway in brain at Parkinson's early stages
While there are several thousand drugs available to treat a wide range of brain diseases, from depression to schizophrenia, they cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier (BBB) into the brain. The BBB, which protects the brain ...
Jun 6, 2019
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Immunology
Scientists create device to deliver immunotherapy without side effects
Houston Methodist scientists have developed a nanodevice to deliver immunotherapy without side effects to treat triple-negative breast cancer. Inserted straight into a tumor, this nanofluidic seed makes it possible to deliver ...
Oct 23, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
To fight lung cancer, researchers think small
In a study published in the Journal of Controlled Release, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers used nanoparticles to deliver powerful chemotherapy drugs directly to lungs affected by metastatic disease ...
Sep 26, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Focused delivery for brain cancers
A person's brainstem controls some of the body's most important functions, including heart beat, respiration, blood pressure and swallowing. Tumor growth in this part of the brain is therefore twice as devastating. Not only ...
Sep 4, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
An aspirin a day may keep HIV away, study finds
An affordable, globally available drug – low-dose Aspirin – shows promise as a new approach to preventing HIV transmission, a University of Manitoba study has found.
Aug 10, 2018
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