A Common Medication Improves Survival for Heart Failure Patients
A new study discovers a new potential treatment option for a condition affecting 6 million Americans. Colchicine, a common gout medication, dramatically increased the survival…
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Wonder Drug Could Provide Protection Against Depression
Statins have been linked with reduced negative emotional bias With 17.3 million adult Americans affected, depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders in…
New Medication Shrinks Cancer in 80% of Patients
After using zanubrutinib, 80% of patients with a specific type of lymphoma had their tumors shrink in a clinical trial Lymphoma cancer is one of…
New Side Effects of Popular Medicines Discovered: Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Could Cause Chronic Pain
Findings may change how we treat acute pain Whenever you have a headache, your back hurts, your arthritis flares up, or you have a fever,…
New Engineered Bacteria Could Prevent Side Effects of Antibiotics
Microbes that safely break down antibiotics could prevent opportunistic infections and reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also…
MIT Scientists Develop New Regenerative Drug That Reverses Hearing Loss
MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics’ drug candidate stimulates the growth of hair cells in the inner ear. Frequency Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, is working to repair…
Chemists Design New Compounds That Thwart Viruses – Blocks Replication of Coronavirus
New compounds block the replication of multiple viruses, including coronavirus. According to a February 26 report from the World Health Organization, the Wuhan coronavirus has…
Using 10,000 Fungi to Search for New Medical Drugs
An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help us find new drugs. Researchers from the group of Jeroen den…
Caution: Drug Discount Cards Could Actually Make Medicine Cost More
New research published today (November 11, 2019) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) reveals that brand-name drug discount cards are leading to higher health…
New Medical Treatments Possible With “Right-Handed” Nanoparticles
Coating particles with “right-handed” molecules could help them penetrate cancer cells more easily. MIT engineers have shown that they can enhance the performance of drug-delivery…
New Strategy for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Chemists from the University of Basel have succeeded in synthesizing two complex natural products from the group of dithiodiketopiperazines (DTPs). For this, they employed a…
Chemists Discover a Simpler Way to Make Complex Medicines
Chemists find a new way of creating the building blocks of many drugs. Organic chemists at Ohio State University have figured out how to synthesize…
New Medicines & ‘Green’ Insecticides Possible With Efficient Synthesis of Ginkgo Compound
New method offers an easy route for making bilobalide and related compounds so scientists can explore their potential uses as drugs and pesticides. Chemists at…
FDA Approved Drug Reverses Signs of Liver Disease in People Living With HIV
Tesamorelin prevented progression to liver fibrosis in NIH study. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in…
MIT Scientists Achieve New Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s Research
Study finds that Alzheimer’s damage allows toxins to enter the brain, further harming neurons. Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of…
Embryo-Inspired Bandage Uses Body Heat to Speed Healing
Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures — there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve…
New Super-Charged Treatment Boosts T-Cell Therapy
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach,…
Scientists Crack the Code of a Rare, Inherited Anemia
Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the human body, an essential function for survival. Anemia results when someone has fewer red blood cells than normal….
