News tagged with drug treatment

Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study

(AP) -- The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (39) | comments 26

Nano-Vehicle acts as cluster bomb for tumors

Chemotherapy, while an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity, and a battered immune system. Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists find natural way to curb your greed

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists have discovered a naturally-occurring appetite suppressant that could be used to make a diet drug without side effects.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Humble protein, nanoparticles tag-team to kill cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A normally benign protein found in the human body appears to be able - when paired with nanoparticles - to zero in on and kill certain cancer cells, without having to also load those particles ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Putting bacterial antibiotic resistance into reverse

The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing the use of additional drugs leading to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

DNA nanotechnology breakthrough offers promising applications in medicine (w/ Video)

A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes - tiny "magic bullets" that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Could new psychological treatment be a viable alternative to anti-depressants?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), an emerging psychological treatment which focuses on targeting negative thinking and behaviour, is the subject of new research at the Universities ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

High-blood-pressure treatment for the over-80s too aggressive, warns expert

People over 80 years are being treated too aggressively for high blood pressure, warns an expert in an editorial in BMJ Clinical Evidence this week.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Rapid analysis of DNA damage now possible

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our DNA is under constant attack from many sources: Radiation, ultraviolet light, and contaminants in our food and in our environment can all wreak havoc on our genetic material, potentially ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanodiamonds take big step toward battling cancer

Chemotherapy drug resistance contributes to treatment failure in more than 90 percent of metastatic cancers. Overcoming this hurdle would significantly improve cancer survival rates.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles disguised as red blood cells deliver cancer-fighting drugs

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which will enable them to evade the body's immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medical treatments from 200 miles up

In the hunt for cancer treatments, researchers have had some help from higher authorities -- way higher. The International Space Station, orbiting the Earth at more than 200 miles in the sky, houses scientific ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction

A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 02, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Potential new herpes therapy studied

A new therapy being developed at the University of Florida could, in time, produce another weapon for the fight against herpes.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using hair to manage HIV/AIDS and predict treatment success

UCSF researchers have found that examining levels of antiretroviral drugs in hair samples taken from HIV patients on therapy strongly predicts treatment success.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0