HIV & AIDS
Life expectancy with HIV nears normal with treatment
(HealthDay)—Young adults with HIV who get treatment are living longer in North America and Europe, a new study finds.
May 11, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Combination therapy could provide new treatment option for ovarian cancer
Researchers have been trying to understand why up to 85 percent of women experience recurrence of high-grade serous ovarian cancer—the most common subtype of ovarian cancer—after standard treatment with the chemotherapy ...
May 1, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New research sheds light on treating bloodstream infections with fewer side effects
Patients with bloodstream infections could avoid treatment with a combination of antimicrobial therapies if they are given the right drug as early as possible and if they are classified as at low risk of death. This would ...
Apr 23, 2017
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Medical research
Pioneering stem cell gene therapy cures infants with bubble baby disease
UCLA researchers have developed a stem cell gene therapy cure for babies born with adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare and life-threatening condition that can be fatal within the first year ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Combination immunotherapy effective for advanced prostate cancer
Advanced prostate cancer resistant to castration therapy appears to respond well to a combination of immune checkpoint blockades and treatments that target certain immune-busting cells commonly associated with poor patient ...
Mar 9, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Newly discovered vulnerability in an aggressive breast cancer provides therapeutic target
Physicians currently have no targeted treatment options available for women diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer known as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), leaving standard-of-care chemotherapies as a first ...
Mar 2, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
First drug-resistant malaria parasite detected in Africa
For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to fight a disease that ...
Feb 22, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
Progress toward HIV cure highlighted
A comprehensive collection of articles describing the broad scope and current status of this global effort is published in a special issue of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
Feb 10, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Novel combination therapy overcomes difficult-to-treat form of antibiotic resistance
Combination therapy with two antibiotic compounds overcame pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae harboring a pernicious form of antibiotic resistance, in a bone-infected patient, where other drugs had failed. The research describing ...
Feb 6, 2017
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Diabetes
Exenatide, pioglitazone effective for poorly controlled T2DM
(HealthDay)—For patients with long-standing poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on metformin plus a sulfonylurea, combination therapy with exenatide and pioglitazone is effective and safe, according to a study ...
Jan 23, 2017
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