Heart failure is the most common cause of death throughout the world, typically the result of chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. As a result, research efforts have focused on an array of approaches aimed at preventing and treating high blood pressure. Recently, Japanese...
I'm making a very important presentation tomorrow regarding something completely serious, but there is one part of the presentation I simply can't not laugh out loud at. It's worrying me. What sort of drug could help me? I was thinking a few mgs of valium might?
A once-a-day pill to help prevent HIV infection could significantly reduce the spread of AIDS, but only makes economic sense if used in select, high-risk groups, Stanford University researchers conclude in a new study. The researchers looked at the cost-effectiveness of the combination drug...
When combined with other treatments, the drug cetuximab - which works by slowing or stopping the growth of cancer cells - has been shown to extend survival in certain types of cancer, including metastatic colorectal cancers. Unfortunately, about 40 percent of colorectal cancer patients -...
Until now, illicit drug use has not been common in older people. However, it is likely to become more common as generations that use drugs more frequently reach an older age. New research published in the journal Age and Ageing has found that the lifetime use of cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine...
The drug known as rapamycin is widely used by cancer and transplant patients, and there are hints that it might even help us put off old age and live longer. But, it also comes with a downside: rapamycin leads to diabetes in as many as 15 percent of the people who take it. Now, researchers...
Malaria infections among infants can be cut by up to 30 per cent when antimalarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12 month period, a three-year clinical trial in Papua New Guinea has shown. The trial showed the drug regime was effective against both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium...
Are you fully prepared to overcome the key drug safety challenges? The 4th annual World Drug Safety Congress Americas is fast approaching and once again promises to be an unmissable event for the industry...
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In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012. The team uncovered hundreds of associations between mutations...
An international team of researchers have developed a new method for measurement of aggregated beta-amyloid - a protein complex believed to cause major nerve cell damage and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. The new method might facilitate diagnosis and detection as well as development of...
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain's capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells could substantially aid recovery from stroke even days after the event...
El DeBarge is racking up a bevy of greatest hits—on his sprawling rap sheet. E! News has confirmed that the "Rhythm of the Night" singer (real name: Eldra DeBarge) was...
A study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that the compound epothilone D (EpoD) is effective in preventing further neurological damage and improving cognitive performance in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The results establish how the drug might be used in...
...that does not involve tons of money? I have been on oxycodone for a few years because I had a few surgery's and now that I want to stop taking them there is no one able to help. Dr's can not help. Methadone clinic wants tons of money. Also I work and pay bills and rent. I have no insurance...
religion was taught in schools? in schools?
like a different religion every week to ensure all requested religions were covered. Not forcing them to believe but laying out there options.
for example: the fear of God would whoop'em into shape.
Tell me what you think,
Thanks for your answers.
religion was taught in schools? in schools?
like a different religion every week to ensure all requested religions were covered. Not forcing them to believe but laying out there options.
for example: the fear of God would whoop'em into shape.
Tell me what you think,
Thanks for your answers.
Combining gemcitabine with MRK003, an experimental drug, triggers a chain of events leading to pancreatic cancer cell death, researchers from Cambridge reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The researchers explained that when the two drugs are combined, the effect of each one is...
Fruit flies infected with a blood-borne parasite consume alcohol to self-medicate, a behavior that greatly increases their survival rate, an Emory University study finds. "We believe our results are the first to show that alcohol consumption can have a protective effect against infectious...
As the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders, many of ASH's more than 16,000 members are on the front lines of dealing with the country's severe shortage of methotrexate, a drug critical in the treatment of children with acute lymphocytic...