UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO UT Health San Antonio researchers, working with collaborators at the University of Florida, have discovered a safe and potent next generation of drugs to fight multiple types of leukemia and lymphoma in adults and children. The journal Nature Medicine reported the findings Dec. 2. “This is...
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Taste-related protein provides target for drugs to treat neurological disorders
VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Dec. 2, 2019) — Understanding how the brain processes sweet, bitter and umami tastes may one day help researchers design more effective drugs for neurological disorders. Van Andel Institute scientists have for the first time revealed the near atomic-level structure of a calcium homeostasis modulator (CALHM), a type...
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Some brain-boosting supplements contain an unapproved drug that could harm users, study warns
By ELIZABETH COONEY @cooney_liz NOVEMBER 25, 2019 The FDA has sent warning letters to companies including Pure Nootropics for selling piracetam as a dietary supplement.FDA Promising to lift brain fog or improve memory, brain-boosting supplements have joined sexual-enhancement and weight-loss remedies in the lightly regulated world of dietary supplements. These products may be sold legally with broad-brush...
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‘NANOPIECES’ MAY DELIVER DRUGS TO TREAT INCURABLE BONE CANCER
Researchers have used nanotechnology to identify a potentially groundbreaking treatment for an aggressive bone cancer that has proven disappointingly unresponsive to existing therapies, a new study shows. The new approach to treating chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer that typically afflicts adults and has poor survival rates, appears in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. The research, using...
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New Nanotube Drug Delivery Shows Promise
A new drug delivery method designed by researchers at PNNL and Washington State University (WSU) has shown it can target and kill lung cancer cells. The research, led by Chun-Long Chen, a senior research scientist at PNNL and a joint faculty fellow at the University of Washington, and research partner Yuehe Lin, a professor at...
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DRUG COCKTAIL PROVES TOXIC TO LEUKEMIA
A combination of drugs that affect mitochondria—the power plants inside cells—may become the best weapons yet to fight acute myeloid leukemia, according to new research. Researchers found that mitocans, anti-cancer drugs that target mitochondria, are particularly adept at killing leukemia cells, especially when combined with a glycolytic inhibitor, while leaving healthy blood cells in the...
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Homeopathy: FDA issue new statement on risks
By Ana Sandoiu Fact checked by Jasmin Collier As the homeopathic industry grows, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issue a statement to present two major steps they are taking to protect the public from the potentially harmful effects of products labeled as “homeopathic.” According to some estimates, a third of adults and more than...
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Anti-arthritis drug also stops tuberculosis bacillus from multiplying in blood stem cells
KU LEUVEN Immunologist Johan Van Weyenbergh (KU Leuven) and his Belgian-Brazilian colleagues have shown that a drug used to fight arthritis also stops the process that allows the tuberculosis bacillus to infect and hijack blood stem cells. Tuberculosis (TB) may affect any part of the body, but the spread of the disease might start in the bone marrow. Immunologists from KU Leuven and Brazil have shown that the...
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New study may have the reason why heart medication gives muscle pain
A study from McMaster has found a potential mechanism explaining why some people who take drugs to lower their cholesterol develop sore, aching muscles. The use of statin drugs to significantly lower cholesterol, and ultimately reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, has become widespread and large-scale studies suggest that nearly half of Americans and a...
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Repurposing heart drugs to target cancer cells
by MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences Senescence is a cellular stress response that results in the stable growth arrest of old and damaged cells. The past decade has revealed that senescent cells play important roles in a growing list of diseases from cancer, to arthritis, atherosclerosis and many more. Previous studies have shown that...