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Antibiotic resistance solution proposed
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 11 May 2016
A group of US scientists are confident the key to tackling antibiotic resistant bacteria is already…
Hybrid drug use prevents malarial resistance
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 21 Apr 2016
Scientists from the National University of Singapore have developed a new drug to combat the rise o…
Anti-cancer drugs eliminate Legionnaires' disease
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 31 Mar 2016
Cancer drugs have shown potential after being repurposed to fight the bacteria responsible for Legi…
Mosquitoes’ reproductive cycle potential drug target
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 17 Mar 2016
US scientists are looking at ways to influence how mosquitoes mate to control the diseases they spr…
Antidepressants double suicide risk in children
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 4 Feb 2016
Children and teenagers who take one of the five most commonly prescribed antidepressants have a dou…
Cholesterol reducing drug could positively affect Parkinson’s
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 25 Jan 2016
A trial has begun in the UK to see the effects of cholesterol lowering drug, Simvastin, in those af…
Antibiotic resistance could hold key for treating amyloid diseases
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 14 Jan 2016
Researchers have discovered a method of using antibiotic resistance to find chemicals that stop amy…
Antidepressants show effect on lifespan
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Scientists have begun to understand more about the effects of ageing through experiments on the lif…
Metformin affects diabetic trial studies
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 30 Dec 2015
Metformin has been found to have a stronger effect on gut flora than diabetes Type 2, the condition…
Protein found to affect HA efficacy
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 1 Dec 2015
Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful fo…
Novel therapies against parasitic diseases win Nobel Prize
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 5 Oct 2015
A novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites has won William Campbell and Satos…
MenB vaccination programme launched
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 1 Sep 2015
A new vaccination programme has been launched today which offers children protection against mening…
Chemical Probes Portal
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 12 Aug 2015
New website – Chemical Probes Portal – has been launched to help researchers choose better quality …
‘Megafund’ to boost drug development
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 20 Jul 2015
The Mayor of London – Boris Johnson – is planning to create a £10 billion ‘megafund’ to make the se…
‘Drug Discovery Booster’ for neglected diseases
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 16 Jul 2015
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and four pharmaceutical companies have announced…
‘Call for Targets’ of respiratory diseases
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 2 Mar 2015
MRC Technology has announced a ‘call for targets’ to find new therapeutics for the treatment of res…
Smart drugs impair the healthy
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 19 Nov 2014
Smart drugs won’t make smart people smarter suggests new research from the University of Nottingham…
Longitude Prize open for entries
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 18 Nov 2014
The Longitude Prize to tackle resistance to antibiotics has opened today, 18 November.!--more-- En…
Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 3 Oct 2014
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…
Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms
hhwdjwbphm.d hhwdjwbphm.d | Added: 16 Sep 2014
A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has sh…
