News articles tagged with 'drug' (Page 2)
New inhibitor prevented lesions, reduced tumour size in basal cell cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:23 | HealthA new hedgehog pathway inhibitor demonstrated efficacy in preventing and treating basal cell cancer among patients with basal cell nevus syndrome, a rare inheritable disease, according…
Immune system may guide chemotherapy for breast cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:20 | HealthA study published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, debuting here at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held April 2-6, showed…
Digoxin may be a possible treatment for prostate cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:11 | HealthScientists have identified digoxin as a possible therapy for prostate cancer, using a combination of laboratory science and epidemiology that is unprecedented in its cooperative nature…
Heart drug cuts prostate cancer risk; holds potential for therapeutic use
— 3 Apr 2011 11:56 | HealthJohns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug, digoxin, had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer.…
Intelligent design: Engineered protein fragment blocks the AIDS virus from entering cells
— 1 Apr 2011 15:48 | HealthIn what could be a potential breakthrough in the battle against AIDS and a major development in the rational design of new drugs, scientists have engineered a new protein that prevents…
New approach to leukaemia chemotherapy - is a cure in sight?
— 31 Mar 2011 15:39 | HealthSpeaking at the UK National Stem Cell Network conference in York later today (31 March), Professor Tessa Holyoake from the University of Glasgow will discuss a brand new approach to…
UT Southwestern research advances fight against kidney cancer
— 31 Mar 2011 15:06 | HealthResearchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have discovered genetic pathways to starve selectively kidney cancer cells…
UCSF researchers identify promising new treatment for childhood leukaemia
— 31 Mar 2011 14:54 | HealthAn experimental drug lessens symptoms of a rare form of childhood leukaemia and offers significant insight into the cellular development of the disease, according to findings from a…
Cost of heart drugs makes patients skip pills, putting themselves at risk
— 30 Mar 2011 17:19 | HealthFor more than 5 million Americans with heart failure, a critical step to better health is taking the medications they're prescribed. But many patients fail to do so, putting themselves…
New cancer drug discovered at U-M heads to clinical trials
— 30 Mar 2011 16:55 | HealthResearchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have developed a new drug called AT-406 with potential to treat multiple types of cancer…