Friday, January 31, 2014

New Hepatitis C Drug Sovaldi Approved by FDA

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A new hepatitis C drug that can be taken as a pill once a day was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The drug,...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Experimental Drug Pritelivir Shows Promise for Genital Herpes Treatment

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An experimental drug could eventually offer a new treatment option for genital herpes, a common and incurable sexually transmitted infecti...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Potential drug targets for early onset glaucoma

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Using a novel high-throughput screening process, scientists have for the first time identified molecules with the potential to block the a...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

New drug shows promise in treating indolent non-Hodgkin lymphomas

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Slow-growing, or indolent, non-Hodgkin lymphomas are difficult to treat, with most patients relapsing repeatedly and the disease becoming ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Scientists develop powerful new animal model for metastatic prostate cancer

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Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men. Affecting about 1 in 6 men, it is the second deadliest cancer. Research has been...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Birch helps wounds heals faster.....

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Extracts from the birch tree have served for centuries as a traditional means of helping the damaged skin around wounds to regenerate mo...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

US Indian scientist ‘re-engineering’ tulsi "to control breast cancer"

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US Indian scientist ‘re-engineering’ tulsi -   to    control breast cancer" Led by an Indian-American, a team of scientists at a US uni...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

New Drug Combo Might Help Older, Sicker Patients With Leukemia

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The research, led by German scientists, included nearly 800 older people (average age 73) who had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Mekinist Plus Tafinlar Approved for Late-Stage Melanoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Mekinist for use with another drug, Tafinlar, to treat advanced melanoma that is...
Monday, January 13, 2014

FDA Approves Anoro Ellipta to Treat COPD

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A new inhaled drug to treat a serious lung condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been approved by the U.S. Foo...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Farxiga Approved for Type 2 Diabetes - Drugs.com MedNews

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In continuation of my update on Farxiga Farxiga (dapagliflozin) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Chinese herbal compound relieves inflammatory, neuropathic pain

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Working with Chinese scientists, Olivier Civelli and his UC Irvine colleagues isolated a compound called dehydrocorybulbine (DHCB) from th...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

2 Pre-Surgery Drug Treatments Show Promise Against Aggressive Breast Cancer - Drugs.com MedNews

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This pre-surgical drug therapy boosts the likelihood that no cancer cells will be found in breast tissue removed during either mastectomy ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Two-drug combo helps adolescents with ADHD, aggression

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Prescribing both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug to children with physical aggression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Malaria drug target raises hopes for new treatments

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In a study published in Nature Chemistry , they show that blocking the activity of an enzyme called NMT in the most common malaria parasit...