Decoding Sleeping Sickness Signals Could Aid Quest for Treatments
Key insights into how the parasites behind sleeping sickness boost their ability to spread could aid efforts to beat the disease. The finding resolves a decades-long puzzle about the behavior of the parasites, which are spread by the bite of the tsetse fly, and cause disease in people and animals. Researchers studied how parasites in…
Study: Tumor Immune Cells Could Aid Cancer Therapies
Cancer Drug Insight Tactic Could Spell Double Trouble for Tumors
A new way of identifying potential cancer drugs could streamline the development of therapies, following a discovery by scientists. Researchers have devised a way to screen potential drug compounds to select those that interfere with tumor cells in two ways. Their study seeks to build on an existing approach of identifying drugs that target an…
Heart Failure Therapy Hope as Drug Blocks Deadly Muscle Scarring
DNA Discovery Could Help Shed Light on Rare Childhood Disorder
Jetlag Drug Could Ease Chemotherapy Pain
Gold Specks Raise Hopes for Better Cancer Treatments
Zebrafish Study Reveals Clues to Healing Spinal Cord Injuries
Diabetes Drug May Help Symptoms of Autism-Associated Condition
Lung Study Points to New Therapies to Treat Critical Illness
Best Way to Treat Parasites? Major Drug Initiatives, Study Finds
Major drug initiatives are best way to curb threat from parasites. Large-scale programs to treat a life-threatening disease could improve the health of millions despite concerns about their long-term effects, a study suggests. The research offers fresh insights into the effectiveness of major initiatives set up to treat bilharzia—also known as snail fever. The infection…
Cancer Drug May Cause Women to Grow New Eggs, Study Suggests
Women treated with a common chemotherapy drug combination have more young eggs in their ovaries afterwards, research has found. A small study indicates that a therapy commonly used to target Hodgkin’s lymphoma appears to increase the number of non-growing eggs in women’s ovaries. Researchers say it is too soon to link the outcome to fertility,…
