Oncology & Cancer
Virtual patient 'surrogates' can personalize cancer treatments
Scientists have developed mathematical models that act as patient 'surrogates' for evaluating potential prostate cancer treatments.
Feb 15, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Method for delivering immune system-stimulating drugs may enhance cancer immunotherapy
Stimulating the body's immune system to attack tumors is a promising way to treat cancer. Scientists are working on two complementary strategies to achieve that: taking off the brakes that tumors put on the immune system; ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Medications
Biosimilar drugs could generate $38.4 billion in savings over five years
Biosimilar drugs could drive down prices for expensive medicines used to treat illnesses such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, with savings estimated to be $38.4 billion or 5.9% of projected total U.S. spending on biologics ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Medications
Treatments in weeks, not months: Scientists develop ambitious pandemic response plan
An international team of scientists has created a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Addiction relapse driven by drug-seeking habit, not just drug
Why are some individuals able to use recreational drugs in a controlled way, whereas others switch to the compulsive, relapsing drug-seeking and -taking habits that characterize substance use disorder (SUD)? Despite more ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research reveals how aging cells can be an underlying cause of kidney damage
A study in mice by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that stress and tissue damage initiated by angiotensin II, a molecule that is known to increase blood pressure and stiffening in ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Immunology
CRISPR screen identifies new anti-inflammatory drug target
A metabolic enzyme that has been studied in cancer biology and is important for T cell function may offer a new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. They report Nov. 11 in the ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Medications
Multi-algorithm approach helps deliver personalized medicine for cancer patients
Today, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic advancements made by research scientists and engineers are driving more targeted medical therapies through the power of prediction. The ability to rapidly ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Medications
Biosimilar drugs are cheaper than biologics. Are they similar enough to switch?
It took years for Elle Moxley to get a diagnosis that explained her crippling gastrointestinal pain, digestion problems, fatigue, and hot, red rashes. And after learning in 2016 that she had Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Rheumatoid arthritis treated with implanted cells that release drug
With a goal of developing rheumatoid arthritis therapies with minimal side effects, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have genetically engineered cells that, when implanted in mice, will ...
Sep 1, 2021
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