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A Phase 1 clinical trial on patients with cancers that are the result of a change to the tyrosine kinase receptor, also called RET, has produced encouraging results. Cancers caused…
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have discovered that a drug used to treat muscular dystrophy also works on a hereditary heart disease called Lamin A/C-related dilated cardiomyopathy. The…
A group of researchers led by Professor Gholson Lyon has discovered a genetic mutation that is linked to certain traits, reports Medical Xpress. The method used to discover it was…
The prolonged legal battle over Alfie Evans, a toddler with a serious undiagnosed degenerative neurological disease, has reached a final verdict. The UK doctors currently caring for Alfie made the…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a new drug called Tavalisse™ to treat adults who have thrombocytopenia as a result of chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), following…
The charity organisation Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has just announced that $10 million is going to be given to a team of researchers to fund their work to improve…
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Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have just developed a potentially life-saving device for patients with Addison’s disease, reports Newcastle University. Patients will be given a Quick Response (QR)…
A drug called Anavex 2-73 being developed to treat Parkinson’s disease dementia is planned to undergo testing in a Phase 2 clinical trial, reports Globe Newswire. Parkinson’s disease is a…
A team of childhood cancer researchers, known as the Pediatric Cancer Dream Team, were first created in 2013 through collaboration between the charitable organizations Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)…
A study carried out by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has discovered that the extremely common Epstein-Barr virus is a risk factor for seven diseases, including lupus and multiple sclerosis.…
The Orthopaedic Institute for Children (OIC) has found that improving the education of patients with hemophilia leads to a large reduction in rates of prosthetic joint infection, reports Bioportfolio.…
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A biotechnology company called Apitope is developing an innovative new immunotherapy treatment for a range of autoimmune diseases. A press release by the company that can be found here…
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The phase 3 trial of the drug Inlyta for the treatment of patients with a high risk of recurrent renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) following nephrectomy (removal of a kidney)…
Researchers are arguing that the certain drugs, including the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, could be used as cancer treatments, reports MedicalXpress. This theory is based on a range of pre-clinical…
A recent study, published in Nature Communications and reported on by the BBC, has discovered five genes that are linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is the…
The pharmaceutical company Lonza has just opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to produce cell and gene therapies. You can find the full press release here, on Lonza’s website.…
Scientists are investigating whether delaying the onset of epilepsy in very young children could reduce or prevent other neurological conditions such as learning difficulties and autism, reports Medical Xpress. This…
A press release from Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, which can be found in full at GlobeNewswire, has announced that enrolment for a phase 1/2 clinical study has been completed. The…
Women’s* biology and symptoms are often misunderstood in medicine, which leads to difficulties in diagnosis and treatment. Maya Dunsenbery, a journalist suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), recently wrote a book,…
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