Neuroscience

Long-term treatment benefit seen in relapse-onset MS

(HealthDay)—For patients with relapse-onset multiple sclerosis (MS), disease-modifying therapy protects against long-term disability accrual, according to a study published online May 4 in the Annals of Neurology.

Medications

Some drug addicts more likely to relapse than others, study finds

People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says ...

Oncology & Cancer

Pregnancy does not increase risk of Hodgkin lymphoma recurrence

Pregnancy does not increase the risk of relapse among women successfully treated for Hodgkin lymphoma. This according to a new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University published in The Journal of Clinical ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Resistance developing in drug treatment for tropical skin disease

Dermal leishmaniasis is an ulcerous skin disease caused by a tropical parasite, all forms of which can be treated with the drug miltefosine. Researchers from the National Institute of Pathology, Indian Council of Medical ...

Oncology & Cancer

Calculating leukemia progression

A new computational study published in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications has shown how mutations that give rise to drug resistance occur in a form of cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers define unique group of high-risk lymphoma patients

The goal for many cancer patients is to reach the five-year, disease-free mark, but new research from UR Medicine's Wilmot Cancer Institute suggests that two years might be a more practical survival goal for people with follicular ...

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