A team of researchers at the IRCM in Montr-al led by R-mi Rabasa-Lhoret, in collaboration with J-r-me Ruzzin from the University of Bergen in Norway, found a link between a…
Scientists from The University of Manchester – part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (MCRC) – have discovered a new protein that is involved in cancer and inflammation in lung…
What if there were a way to make chemotherapy and radiation more effective as cancer treatments than they are today, while also getting rid of debilitating side effects that patients…
A University of Pennsylvania research team has defined a possible new way to fight a disease that is currently treatable only with the most expensive drug available for sale in…
A study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine provides novel insight into the impact that genes may have on Huntington’s disease (HD). The study, published online in…
A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain…
Among other things, the proposal would limit the types of antidepressants — and other kinds of drugs — that are available to Medicare beneficiaries. Drug industry and insurer groups are…
(MedPage Today) — Thirty million prescriptions for narcotic painkillers were written nationwide in 2013 by non-doctors, according to data obtained by MedPage Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but primary…
(MedPage Today) — The Affordable Care Act’s nonprofit co-op health plans, which see themselves as the rebel alliance battling established insurers, have signed close to 300,000 members and are set…
(MedPage Today) — A monoclonal antibody that binds to the type 1 interferon-alpha receptor showed an acceptable safety profile in a phase I trial for systemic sclerosis, but efficacy was…