A novel formulation of the prostate cancer drug abiraterone acetate—currently marketed as Zytiga—will dramatically improve the quality of life for people suffering from prostate cancer, as pre-clinical trials by the University ...
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A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.
May 19, 2020
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Among the many challenges to independence and quality of life after spinal cord injury, two complications have emerged as top priorities for researchers—neurogenic bowel and neurogenic bladder. With funding from the Craig ...
Mar 12, 2020
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When a newborn suffers lack of oxygen before or during birth, doctors have very little time to save precious brain tissue. The only proven effective way to treat babies with hypoxic brain injuries is by reducing body temperature ...
Feb 20, 2020
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New research from North Carolina State University shows that platelet microparticles are an effective way to deliver therapeutic drugs directly to the heart following a heart attack. This method increases drug concentration ...
Feb 5, 2020
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Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have developed a novel therapeutic approach to cure chronic hepatitis B. The scientists found ...
Feb 3, 2020
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Developing a therapy to combat cancer remains one of the most difficult challenges in medical research. Cancer cells use the host's own immune system to grow and spread, ultimately becoming deadly. Immune cells like macrophages, ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Results from the NRG Oncology phase I clinical trial NRG-GOG 9929 show that using the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab after chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is tolerated in the curative treatment of women with lymph node-positive cervical ...
Dec 3, 2019
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A novel MRI-guided procedure that uses therapeutic ultrasound effectively treats prostate cancer with minimal side effects, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North ...
Dec 2, 2019
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University of California, Irvine researchers have developed and tested on mice a therapeutic treatment that uses engineered stem cells to target and kill cancer bone metastases while preserving the bone.
Jul 8, 2019
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