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New Melanoma Drug Boosts Survival Rates
Patients with advanced skin cancer can now hope to extend life. The new treatment unveiled at a cancer meeting in Chicago has been praised by the cancer care fraternity. Vemurafenib is an experimental drug that attacks the root of the... (Continue reading)
Potential New Drug Compound for Alzheimer’s Disease
Written on 13 Jun, 2011 at 2:29 in New Drugs | viewed 535 views times | No Comments
A potential new therapy for Alzheimer’s disease may be on the horizon after the discovery of a new compound. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San... (Continue reading)
New Drug Target in Breast Cancer
Written on 1 Jun, 2011 at 7:32 in breast cancer, Cancer, New Drugs | viewed 306 views times | 1 Comment
Researchers at the Imperial College London have now identified a novel protein –LMTK3, which is involved in the process of drug resistance in breast cancer. This protein can purportedly act as a target for new treatments. Breast cancer is the... (Continue reading)
New Treatment Helps Paralysed Patient Stand
Written on 23 May, 2011 at 8:33 in General Interest, New Drugs | viewed 485 views times | No Comments
Researchers have discovered a new technique that stimulates important nerve cells in the spinal cord to offer hope to paralysed patients. In a possible breakthrough for the treatment of spinal-cord injuries, an American man Rob Summers from Oregon who was... (Continue reading)
New Drugs For Hepatitis C: Boceprevir Vs Telaprevir
Written on 11 May, 2011 at 13:11 in New Drugs | viewed 1,612 views times | 2 Comments
Researchers working on finding a cure for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection will look back on 2011 as a year of achievement. A United States Food and Drug Administration advisory committee collectively recommended that two new hepatitis C drugs, boceprevir... (Continue reading)
FDA approves Tradjenta to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
There’s some good news for type 2 diabetes patients. Firstly it was the Gastric Bypass Surgery considered to improve insulin reaction. And now, the new drug Tradjenta is used in combination with diet and exercise to help improve blood glucose... (Continue reading)
Potential New Drug Therapy for Kidney Diseases
Written on 30 Apr, 2011 at 5:46 in New Drugs | viewed 271 views times | No Comments
Two discoveries by scientists at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute at UCSB indicate that there are possible new drug therapies for patients suffering with kidney disease. Statistics show that over 600,000 people... (Continue reading)
Injectable Gel to Help Arthritis Sufferers
Here’s some good news for arthritis sufferers. A new gel has been developed that can be injected directly into a joint for treating rheumatoid arthritis. This new way of treating rheumatoid arthritis or its cousin osteoarthritis is said to give... (Continue reading)
New Drug to Fight Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
A new drug has shown a lot of potential to fight chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), which has become resistant to regular treatment. According to the study conducted by the Tufts Medical Center, the drug named DCC-2036 decreased the mutant enzyme,... (Continue reading)
Drug to Aid Hepatitis C Treatment
Written on 12 Apr, 2011 at 14:56 in New Drugs | viewed 189 views times | No Comments
Two studies show that adding an experimental drug, boceprevir to the existing two-drug treatment for hepatitis C appears remarkably more effective than the standard therapy. The current treatment for hepatitis C, a chronic liver infection, is by using the antivirals... (Continue reading)
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