Medications

Anticancer drugs: A new hope for sepsis treatment

The body's extreme response to infection, a condition called sepsis, kills 11 million people every year. This is because to survive a serious infection it is not enough to get rid of the infectious agent, which is currently ...

Oncology & Cancer

Increased toxicity for many newly approved anticancer drugs

(HealthDay)—Newly approved anticancer drugs that do not have a specific molecular target on cancer cells are associated with increased toxicity and the accompanying costs of management, according to research published online ...

Oncology & Cancer

New mechanism of action for PARP inhibitors discovered

New understanding of how drugs called PARP inhibitors, which have already shown promise for the treatment of women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, exert their anticancer effects has led ...

Oncology & Cancer

Scientists find a molecule to fight chemoresistant cancer

A team of Russian scientists led by MIPT's Prof. Alexander Kiselyov has synthesized an antitumor compound that could be used to fight chemoresistant cancer. The research findings were published in the European Journal of ...

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