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November 27, 2024

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Scientists Find Why Tamoxifen Works Better for Some People

Nov. 25, 2024 — Tamoxifen is a common and important treatment to prevent breast cancer from recurring. A new study shows that variation in a patient's gut microbiome can impact how effective the treatment ...

First Molecule Identified That Promotes Gut Healing While Inhibiting Tumour Progression

Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers found a molecule that can both help the intestines to heal after damage and suppress tumour growth in colorectal cancer. The discovery could lead to new treatments for inflammatory bowel ...

A Bioinspired Capsule Can Pump Drugs Directly Into the Walls of the GI Tract

Nov. 20, 2024 — Inspired by the jets of water that squids use to propel themselves through the ocean, a team developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst of drugs directly into the lining of the stomach or ...

New Hope for Diabetic Heart Disease Treatment

Nov. 21, 2024 — Drug discovery researchers have found that a natural fat molecule called 'lipoxin A4' (LXA4) could significantly reduce inflammation and improve function for diabetic ...

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Tirzepatide Shows Powerful Diabetes-Prevention Effect in Three-Year Trial

Nov. 26, 2024 — Tirzepatide, a new injectable weight-loss drug, reduced the risk of diabetes in patients with obesity and prediabetes by more than 90% over a three-year period, compared with placebo, according to ...

From Food Crops to Cancer Clinics: Lessons in Extermination Resistance

Nov. 21, 2024 — Researchers explore how established agricultural pest management strategies could be adapted to address cancer therapy. The pioneering method opens new possibilities for controlling drug resistance ...

Parkinson's Drug Changes the Gut Microbiome for the Worse Due to Iron Deficiency

Nov. 21, 2024 — In a groundbreaking new study scientists have revealed that the widely prescribed Parkinson's disease drug entacapone significantly disrupts the ...

Weight-Loss Drug Reduces Risk of Early Death for Patients With Heart Failure, Trial Finds

Nov. 20, 2024 — Weight-loss and diabetes drug tirzepatide can reduce the risk of death or worsening heart failure for patients with obesity and heart failure with ...

Trial Shows Alcohol-Mimicking Medication Can Give Laryngeal Dystonia Patients Back Their Voice

Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers have led a clinical trial of a drug that mimics the effects of alcohol in more than 100 patients with laryngeal dystonia, a neurological ...

Probiotic Delivers Anticancer Drug to the Gut

Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers shrink gastrointestinal tumors in mice using a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut ...

Cardiovascular Drugs May Reduce Dementia Risk

Nov. 19, 2024 — Common cardiovascular drugs are linked to a lower risk of dementia in older age, according to a new ...

Eradivir's EV25 Therapeutic Reduces Advanced-Stage Influenza Viral Loads Faster, More Thoroughly in Preclinical Studies Than Current Therapies

Nov. 19, 2024 — A research article shows that Eradivir's patent-pending antiviral therapeutic called EV25 reduces lung viral loads of advanced-stage influenza in ...

Promising Daily Tablet Increases Growth in Children With Dwarfism

Nov. 18, 2024 — A promising daily tablet is effective at increasing height and improving proportional limb growth in children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, according to a new study. And the ...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug May Help With Poor Working Memory

Nov. 18, 2024 — Fampridine is currently used to improve walking ability in multiple sclerosis. A new study shows that it could also help individuals with reduced working memory, as seen in mental health conditions ...

Achilles Heel of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Nov. 16, 2024 — To stem the surging antibiotic resistance public health crisis, scientists seek solutions inside the mechanics of bacterial infection. A new study has found a vulnerability related to magnesium ...

Children Exposed to Antiseizure Meds During Pregnancy Face Neurodevelopmental Risks, Study Finds

Nov. 15, 2024 — Children born to mothers who take antiseizure medications to manage seizures and psychiatric conditions during pregnancy may face increased risks of neurodevelopmental conditions, according to new ...

Researchers Uncover Potential Treatment for Rare Genetic Disorders

Nov. 15, 2024 — Researchers have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases -- two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain ...

Drug Combination Prompts Immune Response in Some Resistant Pancreatic Cancers

Nov. 14, 2024 — A new drug strategy that regulates the tumor immune microenvironment may transform a tumor that resists immunotherapy into a susceptible one, according to a new ...

'Achilles Heel' of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study has found highly vulnerable weakness in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, offering a new way to kill ...

Researchers Reveal Why a Key Tuberculosis Drug Works Against Resistant Strains

Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved ...

Protein Degradation Strategy Offers New Hope in Cancer Therapy

Nov. 11, 2024 — A team of scientists has used a novel approach to identify protein degraders that target Pin1, a protein involved in pancreatic cancer ...

Scientists Use Microcellular Drones to Deliver Lung Cancer-Killing Drugs

Nov. 11, 2024 — Extracellular vesicles (EVs) loaded with customizable anti-cancer antisense oligonucleotides suppressed cancer ...

Patients May Become Unnecessarily Depressed by Common Heart Medicine

Nov. 11, 2024 — All patients who have had a heart attack are typically treated using beta blockers. According to a recent study, this drug is unlikely to be needed for those heart patients who have a normal pumping ...

New Antibody Could Be Promising Cancer Treatment

Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new form of precision medicine, an antibody, with the potential to treat several types of cancer. Researchers have managed to combine three different functions in the ...

High-Tech Tracking Technology Streamlines Drug Discovery

Oct. 31, 2024 — A team has developed a large-scale drug screening technique that can track target molecule behavior within cells. The researchers verified their technique by testing the epidermal growth factor ...

Glaucoma Drug Shows Promise Against Neurodegenerative Diseases, Animal Studies Suggest

Oct. 31, 2024 — A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated ...

Drug Supply Chain Issues More Likely to Result in Shortages in US Than Canada

Oct. 31, 2024 — Reports of drug-related supply-chain issues were 40 percent less likely to result in drug shortages in Canada versus the United States, according to a new ...

Costs Still on the Rise for Drugs for Neurological Diseases

Oct. 30, 2024 — The amount of money people pay out-of-pocket for branded drugs to treat neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease continues to rise, ...

Nanoplastics Can Reduce the Effectiveness of Antibiotics

Oct. 30, 2024 — An international research team has investigated how nanoplastic particles deposited in the body affect the effectiveness of antibiotics. The study showed that the plastic particles not only impair ...

Precision Robotics Offers Hope for Heart Disease Treatment

Oct. 30, 2024 — The advanced drug testing system screens multiple potential therapies simultaneously in beating heart ...

Study Identifies How Ovarian Cancer Protects Itself, Paves Way for Improved Immunotherapy Approach

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a way that ovarian cancer tumors manipulate their environment to resist immunotherapy and identified a drug target that could overcome that resistance. The study used a ...

Lymph Node-Like Structures May Trigger the Demise of Cancer Tumors

Oct. 25, 2024 — A newly described stage of a lymph node-like structure seen in liver tumors after presurgical immunotherapy may be vital to successfully treating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to ...

New AI Tool Predicts Protein-Protein Interaction Mutations in Hundreds of Diseases

Oct. 24, 2024 — Scientists have designed a publicly-available software and web database to break down barriers to identifying key protein-protein interactions to treat with medication. The computational tool is ...

Tiny Medicine Combats Infections and Drug Resistance

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new technology that can hold an entire course of antibiotics in one tiny dose and deliver on demand just the right amount of medication that a particular patient needs to ...