New clue to how lithium works in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Since the 1970s, U.S. doctors have prescribed lithium to treat patients with bipolar disorder. While the drug has a good success rate,...
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Effect of cholesterol medicine on inflammatory diseases mapped
The cholesterol medicine simvastatin, which is one of the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in the world, also has a beneficial effect on the immune defence...
Genetic testing can help deliver precision medicine to men with advanced prostate cancer
Genetic testing in men with advanced prostate cancer could pick up a significant proportion whose disease may be caused by inherited mutations in genes involved...
A step towards palliative care policy in Africa
ecancer’s latest Special Issue provides an update on rapidly evolving developments in palliative cancer care in Africa. This is the second special issue from ecancer...
Early antiretroviral therapy reduces gut inflammation in HIV+ individuals
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) suppresses HIV replication and significantly slows the progression of disease, enabling HIV+ individuals to effectively manage infection for long periods. One..
Influenza-neutralizing antibodies generated in human subjects given experimental vaccine
Influenza A viruses are responsible for seasonal disease outbreaks in humans. Influenza A also circulates among bird and some mammal populations and periodically crosses between...
GW researchers create conceptual model for acute, unscheduled care
WASHINGTON (July 7, 2016) — Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) created a conceptual model for episodes of acute, unscheduled care – care that...
Biofilm formation may complicate some necrotizing soft tissue infections
Group A streptococcus (GAS) can cause a life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis, which spreads rapidly and destroys soft tissue. Treatment of these GAS necrotizing soft tissue infections...
Blood test to detect DNA fragments shed from colon cancers predicts disease’s recurrence
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and University of Melbourne report they have used a genetic test that spots bits of cancer-related DNA...
Vanderbilt researchers to study breast cancer in African American women
A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and two other institutions, today received $12 million in federal funding to help...
Researchers and farmers collaborate to prevent E. coli
Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study involving microbiologists, epidemiologists, animal scientists,...
Researchers begin promising malaria vaccine trial in Burkina Faso
Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about half a million, most of...
BU researcher awarded grant to better understand breast cancer
(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology...
Army researchers team with Sanofi Pasteur to co-develop a Zika virus vaccine
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for the development of a Zika...
Study sheds light on role of mutations in metastasized cancer
Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus on finding new ways to...
