News tagged with drug therapies
Antibodies to intracellular cancer antigens combined with chemotherapy enhance anti-cancer immunity
An international team of scientists in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States has confirmed that combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer treatment enhances the immune system's ability to find and eliminate cancer ...
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Short fasting cycles work as well as chemotherapy in mice
Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma – the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Combined asthma medication therapy shown to reduce attacks
A Henry Ford Hospital study has found that using two types of common asthma medications in combination reduces severe asthma attacks.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Cancer drugs shown to cause mutations in mice offspring
(Medical Xpress) -- For many years, most of the studies done to see what effects cancer treatment has on the offspring of survivors, has involved radiation. This is because radiation is known to cause mutations in cells. ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Protein discovery could lead to new HIV drugs
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently discovered a new protein that enables HIV to destroy human cells. The finding provides scientists with ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Aiding cancer therapy by mathematically modeling tumor-immune interactions
Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Possible new pathway can overcome glioblastoma resistance
Glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, is one of the most resistant to available therapies and patients typically live approximately 15 months.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Researchers refine nanoparticles for more accurate delivery of cancer drugs
A new class of nanoparticles, synthesized by a UC Davis research team to prevent premature drug release, holds promise for greater accuracy and effectiveness in delivering cancer drugs to tumors. The work is published online ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Fake malaria drugs threaten crisis in Africa
(Medical Xpress) -- The emergence of fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs could dash hopes of controlling malaria in Africa, warn experts writing in the Malaria Journal. Millions of lives could be put ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Ukraine urged to step up AIDS fight
(AP) -- The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Nicotine replacement therapies may not be effective in helping people quit smoking, study says
Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) designed to help people stop smoking, specifically nicotine patches and nicotine gum, do not appear to be effective in helping smokers quit long-term, even when combined with smoking ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Abiraterone: Indication of considerable added benefit in certain patients
Abiraterone (trade name: Zytiga) has been approved since September 2011 for men with metastatic prostate cancer that is no longer responsive to hormone therapy and progresses further during or after therapy with the cytostatic ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Cancer drugs help the hardest cases of Pompe disease
Kids with Pompe disease fail because of a missing enzyme, GAA, that leads to dangerous sugar build-up, which affects muscles and movement. An enzyme replacement treatment pioneered at Duke University has saved many lives, ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Study suggests new way to ensure effectiveness of TB treatment
A UT Southwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated "glass mouse" research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent ...
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