Obstetrics & gynaecology
Common pelvic pain drug is ineffective, study finds
A drug that is regularly used to treat chronic pelvic pain in women has been found to be no more effective than a placebo, a new study has found.
Sep 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mental illness treatment varies widely among American adolescents within and across zip codes
Children are struggling with mental health issues more now than perhaps ever before, though the treatment available—therapy, drugs, or both—differs widely from state to state.
Sep 21, 2020
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Medical research
Next-gen organoids grow and function like real tissues
Organoids are fast becoming cutting-edge tools of modern life sciences. The idea is to use stem cells to build miniature tissues and organs that accurately resemble and behave like their real counterparts.
Sep 16, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Reducing side effects during the treatment of brain tumours
Glioblastomas are among the most aggressive brain tumors in adults and difficult to treat due to their rapid growth and their diversity. Usually, the malignant tumors cannot be completely or permanently removed by surgery. ...
Aug 24, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
New treatment developed shows success in high-risk solid tumors
Despite intensive treatment, high-risk solid tumors like neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma are challenging to cure because the disease in those high-risk patients does not respond to therapy. Conventional ...
Aug 24, 2020
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Medications
Lack of females in drug dose trials leads to overmedicated women
Women are more likely than men to suffer adverse side effects of medications because drug dosages have historically been based on clinical trials conducted on men, suggests new research from the University of California, ...
Aug 12, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
When Trump pushed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of prescriptions followed
In late March and early April, President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19. Within days, the number of prescriptions for the drug skyrocketed even though evidence it could ...
Jul 9, 2020
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Medications
Open-source machine learning tool connects drug targets with adverse reactions
A multi-institutional group of researchers led by Harvard Medical School and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research has created an open-source machine learning tool that identifies proteins associated with drug side ...
Jun 18, 2020
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Medications
Cheap drug is first shown to improve COVID-19 survival
Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A cheap, widely available steroid reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients.
Jun 16, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Adaptive therapy based on Darwin's evolutionary principles could help fight cancer
Computational models developed by USC researchers show adaptively controlling tumor cell populations to keep them in competition can more effectively treat cancer.
Jun 15, 2020
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