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Cancer therapy: A role for MAPK inhibitors combined with mTORC1 inhibitors
Nearly a decade ago, while it was being tested as an immunosuppressive agent to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, the drug rapamycin was also discovered to have anti-tumor properties. Since then, several rapamycin analogs known as mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) inhibitors have been tested in clinical trials for the treatment of... view more... (2008-08-22)

Similar outcomes for patients with ACS treated with different anticoagulant regimens
Patients with acute coronary syndromes such as unstable angina who were undergoing an invasive treatment and received one of three anticoagulant regimens did not have significant differences in the rates of ischemia or death after one year.   view more (2007-12-05)

Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
UCLA scientists, along with collaborators from Purdue University, have demonstrated that HIV protease inhibitors - crucial drugs for HIV treatment - block a cellular enzyme important for generating the structural scaffolding for the cell nucleus.   view more (2007-07-17)

Most NSAIDs raise risk of death after heart attack
Taking either COX-2 inhibitors or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) after a heart attack, especially in high doses, increases the risk of death, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2005.   view more (2005-11-14)

Scientists solve mystery of polyketide drug formation
Many top-selling drugs used to treat cancer and lower cholesterol are made from organic compounds called polyketides, which are found in nature but historically difficult for chemists to alter and reproduce in large quantities.   view more (2008-04-02)

Heart failure patients at greatest risk of death least likely to receive appropriate medications
Even though certain medications such as ACE inhibitors reduce the risk of death for patients with heart failure, patients at greatest risk often are not prescribed these medications.   view more (2005-09-14)

Drug combo may reduce protease inhibitor-related hardening of the arteries
Physiologists may have found a way to decrease the risk of hardening of the arteries that accompanies the long-term use of protease inhibitors, a class of drugs that has emerged as the most effective treatment against HIV and AIDS.   view more (2006-09-05)

Breast stem cells have features similar to 'basal' tumors
The most aggressive form of breast cancer may originate from breast stem cells that have undergone genetic mishaps.   view more (2006-07-20)

Tumors stopped from spreading to new sites
For several types of cancer, persistently high levels of the soluble factor TGF-beta in the blood after surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy correlate with increased risk of early metastasis and a poor prognosis.   view more (2007-04-06)

Novel approach may protect against heart attack injury
Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have manipulated cell activity that occurs during the interruption of blood flow to strongly protect heart tissue in animal studies.   view more (2008-07-11)

Blood pressure medication to treat multiple sclerosis?
Conventional blood pressure medication can treat inflammation in an animal model mimicking multiple sclerosis (MS). This discovery was made by Dr. Michael Platten, head consultant at the department of Neurooncology at Heidelberg University Hospital and head of the Helmholtz Experimental Neuroimmunology Junior Research Group on at the German Cancer... view more... (2009-08-19)

Proton pump inhibitors increase risk of heart attacks for patients on common cardiac drug
Patients taking the common cardiac drug clopidogrel following a heart attack are at a significantly higher risk of a recurrence if they are also taking widely used acid-lowering medications called proton pump inhibitors, a new study published online in CMAJ has found (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/rapidpdf/cmaj.082001).   view more (2009-01-29)

Study suggests some drug resistance to influenza B medications
Use of certain common antiviral drugs during a recent influenza B epidemic in Japan showed the development of viruses with partial resistance to the drugs, according to a study in the April 4 issue of JAMA.   view more (2007-04-04)

USC researchers develop new drug to target tumor cells and blood vessels
Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified a new drug compound that appears to target tumor cells and surrounding blood vessels without the negative side effects typically associated with Cox-2 inhibitors.   view more (2009-04-20)

Diabetes drugs of the future
COMMON blood-pressure drugs that help prevent the life-threatening complications of diabetes may do so by slowing the accelerated ageing from which diabetics suffer. The discovery could one day lead to drugs that delay some of the symptoms of ageing in everyone. People with diabetes tend to age rapidly, particularly if they have type 1 diabetes,... view more... (2002-10-02)

Abacavir Could Play Important Future Role In Treatment Of Children With HIV-1 (p 733)
Results of the Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) 5 Trial, published in this week's issue of THE LANCET, suggest an important future role for the drug abacavir in the treatment of children with HIV-1. Antiretroviral HIV-1 drug treatment for adults in more-developed countries usually involves combination therapy with two... view more... (2002-02-28)

Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have clarified the mechanism by which drugs like Celebrex and Vioxx cause heart problems, in multiple animal models.   view more (2006-04-14)

Curacyte awarded a EUR1.2M grant to fund development of Factor Xa inhibitors
Curacyte AG, a Munich-based drug development company, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Curacyte Chemistry GmbH based in Jena, has been awarded a EUR1.2M R&D grant from the German State of Thuringia's Corporate Technology Development Program. The grant will fund the lead optimization and pre-clinical development of the Company's... view more... (2003-10-29)

Genetic mutation linked to West Nile virus infection
A genetic mutation that protects against HIV increases the risk of developing clinical West Nile Virus infection.   view more (2006-01-09)

Some hypertension drugs may help reduce dementia risk
Some high blood pressure medicines may help protect older adults from declines in memory and other cognitive function, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.   view more (2007-05-07)
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