A BREAKTHROUGH in drug testing developed by a University of Huddersfield lecturer could lead to cheaper, more effective medicines. Dr Hamid Merchant is a member of the team that has create... Read more
New research involving Irish scientists could lead to effective new treatments for the most common type of arthritis within the next five years. Scientists based at NUI Galway are part of an... Read more
Cell Therapy Shows Remarkable Ability to Eradicate Cancer in Clinical Study Investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have reported more encouraging news about one of the mos... Read more
RESEARCHERS believe four cancer-fighting drugs may also work in treating rheumatoid arthritis. In an exciting discovery, a team of international scientists has uncovered new regions of DNA i... Read more
A new study conducted by scientists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School and Karolinska Institutet presents very promising results for the treatment of the cancer... Read more
Loyola University Medical Center is enrolling melanoma patients in the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental vaccine that trains a patient’s immune system to fight the... Read more
New zebrafish technique quickly finds potential treatments for multiple diseases Skeletal muscle has proved to be very difficult to grow in patients with muscular dystrophy and other disorde... Read more
The generic drug gabapentin, which is already widely prescribed for epilepsy and some kinds of pain, appears to be safe and effective in the treatment of alcohol dependence. The finding come... Read more
Study finds almost 1 in 3 large clinical trials still not published 5 years after completion Almost one in three (29%) large clinical trials remain unpublished five years after completion. A... Read more
Findings Point to Potential New Use of an Existing Drug Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a set of compounds that may be used to treat multiple sclerosis (M... Read more
Scientists believe they could be on the cusp of a medical breakthrough which could bring hope to thousands of Parkinson’s sufferers. They’ve injected brain cells from pigs into h... Read more
A new screening strategy for ovarian cancer appears to be highly specific for detecting the disease before it becomes lethal. The strategy is described in a study published early online in C... Read more
A new study at Moffitt Cancer Center could offer hope to people with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Researchers are investigating whether an injectable known as PV-10 can shrin... Read more
Results from a clinical trial of eteplirsen, a drug designed to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suggest that the therapy allows participants to walk farther than people treated with place... Read more
A malaria vaccine has shown promising results in early stage clinical trials, a study suggests. Researchers found the vaccine, which is being developed in the US, protected 12 out of 15 pati... Read more
