COLOMBIA — A $100 million Genentech (RHHBY) study on Alzheimer’s treatment is focusing on members of a Colombian family who may carry a rare gene that leads to early onset dementia research by age 45, the Wall Street Journal reported this…
Hope for an Effective Malaria Therapy with Just One Tablet
Article taken: http://www.dddmag.com/news/2015/04/hope-effective-malaria-therapy-just-one-tablet Approximately 584,000 people worldwide die of malaria each year. The epidemic strongly associated with poverty claims most of its victims in Africa, where it particularly affects the weakest, children and pregnant women. Current therapies have to be taken…
Descubrimiento de puntos de conexión con un posible nuevo tratamiento para el Alzheimer
Researchers have found that the proteins that control the progression of Alzheimer’s are linked in a pathway, and that drugs targeting this pathway may be a way of treating the disease, which affects 40 million people worldwide. The findings are published…
California lanza una iniciativa para promover la medicina de precisión
El gobernador Jerry Brown está lanzando una iniciativa sanitaria en todo el estado de California junto con la Universidad de California para promover el campo de la medicina de precisión. La iniciativa implicará la colaboración con otros socios académicos e industriales y el inicio de la construcción de la infraestructura y la creación de...
New Biomarkers to Spot Pancreatic Cancer Early
Pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed up to two years earlier by screening for two tumor markers found in blood, according to research published in Clinical Cancer Research. The study, conducted by researchers from UCL, UCL Hospital Foundation Trust and the University…
Reacciones alérgicas a medicamentos atribuidas a una sola proteína
Cada día, en hospitales de todo el mundo, los pacientes sufren dolorosas reacciones alérgicas a los medicamentos que se les administran. Estas reacciones, conocidas como pseudoalergias, suelen provocar picazón, hinchazón y erupciones cutáneas, que los pacientes deben soportar como parte indeseada de su plan de tratamiento. El...
Los científicos descubren cuántos tipos de cáncer pueden evadir el tratamiento
Los medicamentos se diseñaron para mantener a raya a las células cancerosas impidiendo su crecimiento, supervivencia y propagación. Sin embargo, tras los ensayos clínicos, dejaron a los científicos desconcertados y a los desarrolladores de medicamentos viendo cómo sus inversiones sucumbían ante el último triunfo del cáncer. Los medicamentos funcionaban...
Tumor Micro-Environment: Rough for Nanoparticle Cancer Drugs
Nanoparticle drugs—tiny containers packed with medicine and with the potential to be shipped straight to tumors—were thought to be a possible silver bullet against cancer. However new cancer drugs based on nanoparticles have not improved overall survival rates for cancer patients…
Targeting Brain Cancer Cells With a Wound-Healing Drug
At the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, three scientists are planning to create a virus capable of destroying brain cancer. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it isn’t hypothetical – the researchers were recently awarded a grant from…
FDA Endorses First Low Cost Biotech Drug
Federal health experts have unanimously endorsed a Novartis drug which is expected to become the first lower-cost copy of a biotech drug to reach the U.S. market. A panel of Food and Drug Administration experts ruled that the company’s version of…