News tagged with side
Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality
The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Researchers shrink tumors, minimize side effects using tumor-homing peptide to deliver treatment
The trouble with most anti-cancer therapies is that they are lethal to most cells in the body, not just cancer cells. As a result, patients experience side effects like nausea, increased susceptibility to ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Making liquid crystals stand tall
Most liquid-crystalline displays contain rod-like molecules that quickly switch from one orientation to another when subjected to electric fields. This movement creates a shutter effect that turns light on ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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FDA approves Regeneron's eye injection Eylea
(AP) -- Regulators on Friday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s drug Eylea, an injection designed to treat a common cause of blindness in older people.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 19, 2011 |
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No difference in side-effects when switching or adding antidepressants
Patients with major depression who fail to see improvement after taking an antidepressant often have their initial medication switched or combined with a second drug. Many clinicians weigh the possibility ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Statin-intolerant patients need a different type of clinical trial
(Medical Xpress) -- Millions of people take statins, the blockbuster drug that lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called bad cholesterol. But as many as 20 percent of them develop adverse effects such as muscle ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Male breast cancer patients stop taking tamoxifen early because of drug-related side effects
The largest study to investigate the tolerability of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen in male breast cancer patients has shown that men stop taking their prescribed therapy early because of problems with side effects caused ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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New approaches may prevent certain side effects in BRAF mutation-positive melanoma
Findings from preclinical studies in a skin cancer model showed that next-generation BRAF inhibitors used alone, or first-generation BRAF inhibitors used in combination with an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, ...
Nov 13, 2011 |
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UC research examines eugenics past and present, driven by race, class, economics
the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined to past centuries and decades, nor to locales outside the United States.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Concurrent chemo and radiation confers survival benefit in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients
The combination of chemotherapy and radiation significantly improved the 5-year overall survival of patients with stage II nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), according to a phase III study published Nov. 4 in the Journal of ...
Nov 05, 2011 |
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First-of-its-kind study creates new tool for targeted cancer drug development
In a technical tour de force, scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have cataloged and cross-indexed the actions of 178 candidate drugs capable of blocking the activity of one or more of 300 enzymes, including enzymes critical ...
Oct 30, 2011 |
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Biologically targeted nanoparticles may boost radiation therapy effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a tumor more sensitive to radiotherapy is a primary goal of combining chemo and radiation therapy to treat many types of cancer, but with the chemotherapy drugs come unwanted side effects.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Gene responsible for relapses in young leukemia patients
One of the causes of resistance to cancer treatment in children is now beginning to be elucidated. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with a particular form of the ATF5 gene are at higher risk of having a relapse when ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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New anti-inflammatory drugs might help avoid side effects of steroids
A new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may one day serve as an alternative to steroid medications and possibly help avoid the serious side effects of steroids, based on research findings at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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FDA: studies do not tie Chantix to mental problems
(AP) -- Federal health officials said Monday that Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Chantix did not increase psychiatric problems like depression and suicidal thoughts in two studies, though the findings are not definitive.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 24, 2011 |
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