A certain immune reaction is the key, not to slowing atherosclerosis like cholesterol-lowering drugs do, but instead to reversing a...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Applying electric current to nerve for chronic low back pain does not provide clinically important improvement
In three randomized trials, treatment of chronic low back pain with radiofrequency denervation, a procedure that can be performed with...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Multiple sclerosis: Antioxidant may slow disease progression
New research offers hope for patients with multiple sclerosis, after finding that a common over-the-counter antioxidant may help to slow...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Some heartburn drugs linked with higher risk of death
Some heartburn drugs used by millions of Americans are associated with a higher risk of death, a new study suggests,...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Works as Well as a Shot
A press-on patch that delivers flu vaccine painlessly worked as well as an old-fashioned flu shot with no serious side...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Studying immune response to aluminum salts can explain how these chemicals boost vaccine’s efficacy
Adjuvants are often included in vaccines to stimulate the immune system and so make a vaccine more effective. Now an...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by same enzyme
Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds
Researchers at the Lomonosov Moscow State University used a mouse model of a mitochondria-targeted antioxidant to study treatment of diabetic...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
New study reveals new drug target for gout and other inflammatory diseases
Particle-driven diseases sound exotic and include things like silicosis and asbestos, but actually also include much more common diseases like...
July 04, 2017July 4, 2017
Barrier proteins in tumors are possible key to immunotherapy success
By comparing variations in protein expression in tumor samples from a single melanoma patient, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg~Kimmel...