Gastroenterology
Could a vibrating pill ease chronic constipation?
A new treatment for chronic constipation may bring relief without having to use drugs.
Feb 10, 2023
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Medications
Zydelig approved for three types of blood cancer
(HealthDay)—Zydelig (idelalisib) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat relapsed forms of blood cancer, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), follicular B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (FL) ...
Jul 24, 2014
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Medical research
Biologists create better method to culture cells for testing drug toxicity
When a new drug is being developed, the first question is, "Does it work?" The second question is, "Does it do harm?" No matter how effective a therapy is, if it harms the patient in the process, it has little value.
Apr 8, 2021
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Medical research
Development of an artificial kidney for early detection of drug toxicity
The kidney plays a vital role in maintaining homeostasis within the body by eliminating toxic and superfluous substances in the bloodstream, including waste generated during metabolic processes, through urine. Nevertheless, ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Health
Internet and new drugs: A challenge for public health
A group of researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and from the INAD (Hospital del Mar Neuropsychiatry and Addictions Institute) has participated in an international study aiming to give a general ...
May 8, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel AKT pathway inhibitor, ARQ 092, demonstrated safety, effective target inhibition
Researchers have confirmed that the novel oral agent ARQ 092 inhibits the AKT pathway and has a manageable safety profile in patients with a variety of advanced solid tumors, according to phase I data presented at the AACR ...
Apr 9, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
FDA lays out extra steps to clean scopes linked to outbreaks (Update)
Federal health officials laid out extra safety measures that hospitals can take to clean specialized medical scopes that have been linked to sometimes deadly bacterial outbreaks across the U.S.
Aug 4, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Pretesting cervical tumors could inform treatment
(Medical Xpress)—Doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that testing cervical tumors before treatment for vulnerability to chemotherapy predicts whether patients will do well or poorly ...
May 31, 2013
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Medical research
Can toxicity of a DNA drug be predicted and minimized?
New classes of therapeutic antisense oligonucleotides can have toxic effects on the liver. A novel machine learning-based approach used to predict the hepatotoxic potential of an antisense drug based on its chemical sequence ...
Aug 27, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Benefits to timing chemotherapy to body's 'awake' time
Not a morning person? Neither are your kidneys. Research from the Washington State University College of Pharmacy suggests there may be benefits to timing chemotherapy in cancer patients to the time of day the body is "most ...
Jun 7, 2016
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