Skin patch offers solution to antibiotic resistance
A new type of skin patch that administers drugs directly into the bloodstream is being tested as a possible answer to the antibiotic resistance crisis...
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A new type of skin patch that administers drugs directly into the bloodstream is being tested as a possible answer to the antibiotic resistance crisis...
The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Promacta for use in combination with standard immunosuppressive therapy for severe aplastic anaemia...
At least some degree of solubility in water is necessary for active ingredients in pharmaceutical products to be effective in vivo. However, as efforts to discover and synthesise new active ingredients are pursued by industrial and academic medicinal chemists, achieving sufficient aqueous solubility can often be a significant limitation to…
A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists discover it significantly reversed memory loss in mice through a triple method of action...
Drug molecule in tapeworm medicine activates protein implicated in the development of Parkinson's disease...
A drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis improves survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplant...
A study by the University of Warwick and the Francis Crick Institute has enabled a deeper understanding of the mechanism of action of antibiotic drug, D-cycloserine, which holds promise for future TB treatment.
A single dose of lithium chloride can block sleep disturbances, memory loss, and learning problems tied to foetal alcohol syndrome...
Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer may benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against an abnormally shaped protein found on cancer cells...
A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anaplastic astrocytoma...
An immunotherapy drug can be used to cure a rare type of cancer arising from pregnancy when existing treatments have failed...
Glatiramer acetate, a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis, has been found to have an effect on drug-resistant bacteria...
A cheap and widely used drug, used to treat conditions such as heartburn, gastritis and ulcers, could work against the bacteria that cause TB...
Drugs designed to halt cancer growth may offer a new way to control high blood pressure...
A Norwegian study shows that NTZ contains a substance that can kill prostate and colon cancer...