Discovery May Lead to Safer Drugs to Save More Women in Childbirth
Postpartum hemorrhaging is the world’s leading cause of death for women during and after childbirth, and the third-leading cause in the United States alone. Many doctors in developing countries have turned to the drug misoprostol to save more women from deadly bleeding. Misoprostol, although affordable, has dangerous side effects, including uterine cramping, heart attack, toxicity…
Freeze-dried Polio Vaccine Could Spell End of Disease
Scientists Create New Map of Brain Region Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
Particle Shows Promise for Treating the Deadliest Type of Breast Cancer
USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic spread of breast cancer, a leading cause of death for women. The findings appear today in Nature Communications. The study comes from the lab of USC stem cell researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and offers a novel solution…
How a Tumor Grows Can Predict Response to Cancer Therapy
USC, Harvard-Affiliated Hospitals, and Mayo Clinic Team Up to Streamline Alzheimer’s Research
Researcher Identifies New Way to Treat HIV
Medical treatment that targets human proteins rather than ever-mutating viruses may one day help HIV-positive people whose bodies have built a resistance to “cocktails” currently used to keep them healthy, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC researcher. I-Chueh Huang has spent 13 years researching how the human immune system controls viral infections.…
