Medical research

Why some cancers may respond poorly to key drugs discovered

Patients with BRCA1/2 mutations are at higher risk for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers that can be aggressive when they develop—and, in many cases, resistant to lifesaving drugs. Now scientists at The University of ...

Medications

Improving drug therapy for relapsed leukemia

A combination of two drugs showed promise in treating relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with mutations in the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) gene, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Stressed-out parasites: Overcoming drug-resistant malaria

Drug resistance to the critical antimalarial therapeutics of the artemisinin family has emerged in Southeast Asia, highlighting the need to understand how these drugs work and how they can be used more effectively. Research ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Breakthrough for treatment of fibrotic diseases

Scientists have discovered a drug combination that could halt the progression of fibrosis—a condition believed to be responsible for almost half of all deaths—according to a study published in the journal European Urology.

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