Around 2.5 million people are affected by the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common central nervous system disease among young adults. There are around 12,500 MS sufferers in Austria and 400 new cases ...
Oct 17, 2017
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Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding why some cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy.
Oct 28, 2016
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Aspirin's reign as "the wonder drug" may have a serious challenger if new research by a team of scientists from the United States and Brazil pans out. That's because they have identified an enzyme, called "soluble guanylate ...
Jun 9, 2016
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Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. NPC primarily strikes children before and during adolescence and affects one in every 150,000 children. The ...
Feb 25, 2016
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A class of drugs used increasingly to help fight cancer may have the additional benefit of protecting the kidneys when packaged with the powerful chemotherapy agent cisplatin.
Dec 15, 2015
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Using brain tumor samples collected from children in the United States and Europe, an international team of scientists found that the drug panobinostat and similar gene regulating drugs may be effective at treating diffuse ...
May 4, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Farydak (panobinostat) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood.
Feb 24, 2015
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WA scientists may have found a cure for the crippling muscle condition McArdle disease, using a drug already approved for use in humans.
Jan 15, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—Anyone who has suffered from kidney stones is keenly aware of the lack of drugs to treat the condition, which often causes excruciating pain.
Aug 14, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Virginia Commonwealth UniversitySchool of Medicine researchers have uncovered a new mechanism of action of fingolimod, a drug widely used to treat multiple sclerosis: elimination of adverse or traumatic ...
May 28, 2014
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