Studies in mice and in tissue cultures suggest that giving vitamin C with tuberculosis drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen. In the study, the investigators treated Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice with anti-tuberculosis drugs…
FDA Permits Marketing of Device to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers
The FDA Last week permitted the Marketing of Dermapace System, the first shock device to treat Diabetic Foot ulcers. “Diabetes is the leading cause of lower-limb amputations,” said Binita Ashar, M.D., director of the division of surgical devices in FDA’s Center…
FDA again delays Portola’s BLA for bleeding antidote
The bleeding Antidotes have been delay again by FDA. Portola Pharmaceuticals is faced with getting its AndexXa universal bleeding reversal agent considered for approval by the FDA. Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb, as well as Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, were hoping…
Alcohol-abuse Drug Antabuse Kills Cancer Cells
A new study of Alcohol-abuse Drug Antabuse is effective against cancer cells. The study has researched by an international team including researchers from Karolinska Institutet. The study also identifies a potential mechanism of action for the anti-tumor effect. As developing new cancer…
Chromosomes May Reveal Link to Down Syndrome and More
The centromere is the structure at the center of every X-shaped chromosome, where cells attached the long, thin spindles that pull the two copies of DNA apart during cell division. A new technique makes it much easier for centromere research, and…
Cell-based Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes?
Cell-based Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes has been studied by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model by infusing blood stem cells pre-treated to produce more of a protein called PD-L1, which is…
Parasite Treatment Fights Prostate Cancer
Cancer researchers at the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway have been experimenting with hundreds of known drugs in recent years to see how they influence cancer cells of Prostate Cancer. Their most recent discovery shows that a medication prescribed for…
FDA Approves First Digital Pill for Psychiatric Conditions
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the first approval of a drug imbued with a digital ingestion tracking system.The treatment is called Abilify MyCite, which is intended to treat schizophrenia, acute treatment of manic and mixed episodes associated with…
Scientists Discover Potential Treatment to Stop Glaucoma in its Tracks
Vision scientists at UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto have discovered that naturally occurring molecules known as lipid mediators have the potential to halt the progression of glaucoma, the world’s second-leading cause of blindness. Their findings, published today…