... by using a gamma secretase inhibitor - a class of Alzheimer's disease drugs currently being tested - reduced loss of neurons in animal models of traumatic brain injury and protected the ...
Women may respond less favorably than men to cardiovascular disease drug-treatments for enlarged heart. For the first time, researchers have uncovered that women derive a lesser benefit than men from ...
... cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases, according to researchers at Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Such clues could speed drug discovery and provide insight into the ...
... U.S. Food and Drug Administration, including the cough suppressant dextramethorphan and the Alzheimer's disease drug memantine.
"This is an example of hypothesis-driven basic research that can be ...
The United States is set to debut a voucher scheme to encourage pharmaceutical companies to produce drugs for tropical diseases.
Extended treatment with Alzheimer's disease drugs can significantly slow the rate at which the disorder advances, and combination ... get worse, that doesn't mean the drug isn't working, since the decline ...
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S scientists have found the drug darapladib can inhibit a cholesterol-and immune system-associated protein, reducing development of heart-disease plaque.
InterMune, a California biotechnology company, said that it would apply for approval of what could be the first drug to treat a fatal lung disease that affects about 100,000 Americans.
... we better understand the gene pathways operating in Crohn's disease, we are uncovering more potential targets for effective drug treatments," said pediatric gastroenterologist Robert Baldassano, M.D ...
Discovering the different genes that contribute to a complex disease is like searching in the proverbial haystack for an unknown number of needles. But if some needles are linked to each other by fine ...
... agent DAPT, one of the first gamma secretase inhibitors developed and the model upon which some Alzheimer's disease drugs now in clinical testing are based. As a result, amyloid peptide production was ...
... the study drug's impact on A-beta synthesis in healthy volunteers.
"Bringing an Alzheimer's disease drug into clinical trials from tests in animal models has always been challenging," says study ...
For people with Type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease, drug treatments are equally effective as angioplasty or bypass surgery in some cases, a new study suggests.
Existing drugs used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease could be repositioned for use in the treatment of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis, which kills about 2 million people each year, ...
... blacks have a greater prevalence of hypertension and kidney disease compared to whites. Results from a new study ... new class of anti-hypertensive and kidney disease drugs that target the TGF-B1 protein ...
