News tagged with therapeutic effect


Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to ...





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Major breakthrough may pave the way for therapeutic vaccines

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It should be possible to use therapeutic vaccines to create both cheap and effective drugs for diseases like cancer and allergies. One problem in developing such vaccines has previously been the lack of adjuvants, substances ...


Therapeutic effect of imatinib improved with addition of chloroquine

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The therapeutic effects of the blockbuster leukemia drug imatinib may be enhanced when given along with a drug that inhibits a cell process called autophagy, researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson reported ...


Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.


Parkinson's disease medication triggers destructive behaviors

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study conducted at Mayo Clinic reports that one in six patients receiving therapeutic doses of certain drugs for Parkinson's disease develops new-onset, potentially destructive behaviors, notably compulsive gambling ...


Popular antidepressant associated with a dramatic increase in suicidal thoughts amongst men

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nortriptyline has been found to cause a ten-fold increase in suicidal thoughts in men when compared to its competitor escitalopram. These findings are published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.


Use of antidepressants associated with improvement in symptoms of fibromyalgia

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of antidepressant medications by patients with fibromyalgia syndrome is associated with a reduction in pain, sleep disturbances and depressed mood and improvement of health-related quality of life, according to an ...


Vitamin E extract could help tackle cancer tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extract of vitamin E could have a key role to play in the treatment of cancerous tumours, according to newly-published research today.


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Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of anti-impotency drugs based on nanoparticles might be coming quickly. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York presenting at the 104'th Annual Meeting ...


Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...


Brain protein may be a target for fast-acting antidepressants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes weeks or months for the effect of most antidepressants to kick in, time that can feel like an eternity to those who need the drugs the most. But new research suggests that a protein called p11, previously ...



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