The deadly condition known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which afflicts up to 150,000 Americans each year, may be reversible by using an inhalable gene therapy The deadly conditi... Read more
If the results are confirmed in humans, the implications for personalized therapies for other cancers could mean fewer radiation treatments, or perhaps, ideally, one single high-dose treatme... Read more
In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, a team of doctors at Duke University Hospital helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and transplanted it into the arm of a patient... Read more
Reduced pain in 67 percent of patients who received the treatment Patients with cancer that has spread to their bones are often treated with radiation therapy to reduce pain. But if that tre... Read more
A daily dose of cholesterol-busting statins has been shown to more than halve the chances of getting the crippling disease. British researchers believe the breakthrough could pave the way fo... Read more
An international team of researchers, led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins, reports that a once-daily tablet containing a high dose of a key ragweed pollen protein effectively blocks... Read more
An international team of researchers, led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins, reports that a once-daily tablet containing a high dose of a key ragweed pollen protein effectively blocks... Read more
Nanopharmaceuticals are beginning to demonstrate their capacity to place the drugs directly in the tumor, where they will do the most good, rather than let them roam freely in the body. The... Read more
Researchers in Denmark believe that they are on the brink of a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV “within months”. The Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark is conducting clinic... Read more
A potentially revolutionary clinical trial using magic mushrooms to treat depression is being held up by ‘absurd’ British and European laws which restrict the use of illegal drugs in researc... Read more
The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that hea... Read more
Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs an... Read more
350 million people at risk worldwide and 1.5 million new cases annually An international collaboration of researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Tuni... Read more
Three per cent of the world’s population suffer from the skin condition known as psoriasis. A Norwegian research-based company is close to developing a treatment that could help millions. Th... Read more