ATLANTA -- Pregnant women should take prescription flu medicines if they are diagnosed with the new swine flu, health officials said Tuesday. So far, the swine flu has not proven to be much more dangerous than seasonal influenza, and it's not clear whether or not pregnant women catch swine flu more often than other people. But in general, flu poses...
Nanoparticles Smuggle Drugs to Immune Cells
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redOrbit
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A team of engineers has devised a way to deliver cancer-fighting drugs by smuggling them on the backs of the immune cells sent in to fight the tumor. The drugs reach only their intended targets,...
FDA looks to curb abuse of cough medicine
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Fresno Bee
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Drugs Encased In Nanoparticles Travel To Tumors On The Surface Of Immune-System Cells
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redOrbit
New approach could dramatically improve the success rate of immune-cell therapies Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works...
Scientists near Ebola drug breakthrough
The Australian
The Australian
US scientists say they've cleared a key hurdle in the quest for a drug to treat Ebola, a notorious African virus and feared future weapon of bioterrorism. A...
Ebola drug breakthrough
The Australian
The Australian
US scientists claim to have cleared a key hurdle in the quest to treat the African virus Ebola, a feared future bioterrorism weapon. A treatment administered to...
Molecular medicine research center opens at UNR
MSNBC
MSNBC
RENO, Nev. — Officials say the opening of a new medical research center at the University of Nevada, Reno, could boost research about diseases that cripple and kill millions of...
Drug to prevent deadly immune response on the anvil
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Researchers, led by an Indian origin scientist, have isolated a molecule, small enough to be used as a drug, that can shut down a dysfunctional immune response that causes deadly hemorrhagic...
Drugs Protect Monkeys From Ebola, U.S. Study Finds
ABC News
ABC News
August 22, 2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers working to find ways to treat the highly deadly Ebola virus said on Sunday a new approach from AVI BioPharma Inc saved monkeys after they were infected....
Cancer drug inspires new Alzheimer's approach
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MSNBC
CHICAGO — An altered version of the cancer drug Gleevec could form the basis of a new class of drugs that block the development of brain-damaging plaques in Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday....


