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New platinum-phosphate compounds kill ovarian cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new class of compounds called phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than conventional drugs, according to a new study published this week in the ...





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Angina: New drug gets right to the heart of the problem

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A compound designed to prevent chest pains in heart patients has shown promising results in animal studies, say scientists. In the second issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, resear ...


Short-term use of antipsychotics in older adults with dementia linked to serious adverse events

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Older adults with dementia who receive short-term courses of antipsychotic medications are more likely to be hospitalized or die than those who do not take the drugs, according to a report in the May 26 issue of Archives of ...


Gene signature for cancer stem cells may provide drug targets

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A subset of tumor cells that remain after a woman with breast cancer undergoes treatment with either anti-cancer or anti-hormone therapy shows a "gene signature" that could be used to define targets for developing new drugs ...


Getting to the roots of breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The lesson learned in eradicating dandelions from your yard could apply in treating breast cancer as well, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the Journal of ...


Antiangiogenic drugs impede chemotherapy-stimulated tumor recovery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists have gained new insight into a mechanism whereby chemotherapy may actually assist the rapid regrowth of tumors after treatment. The research, published by Cell Press in the September issue of the journal Cancer Ce ...


FDA concerned about some STD medications

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned six companies to stop marketing unapproved drugs for treating and preventing sexually transmitted diseases.


Mucin found as barrier to pancreatic cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current treatments for pancreatic cancer have failed to effectively manage the disease and improve the grim survival rate. A Northeastern University study found that the thick layer of mucin covering the ...


Toward cancer drugs that penetrate 10 times deeper into the brain

Chemistry /

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new drug-delivery system for cancer of the brain — one of the most difficult cancers to treat — has the potential to carry anticancer drugs 10 times deeper into tumors than conventional medications, researchers in Connecticut ...


New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease

New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting a potential solution to a problem that limits the human body’s ability to absorb and use medications for heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, cancer and other conditions. It is a “nano-hybrid ...


Scientists develop new drug to outflank cancer resistance

Scientists develop new drug to outflank cancer resistance

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new drug has shown promising results against breast and prostate cancer cells and tumours that are resistant to conventional hormone-based treatments, according to research published in the British Journal of ...



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