medicine
500 People Will Get Ten Day Clinical Trial for Antiviral Drug Versus Coronavirus
Posted in Medicine on 8th Feb, 2020
by Alex Muller
Doctors in Washington State gave remdesivir (Gilead antiviral drug) to the first coronavirus patient in the United States last week after his condition worsened and pneumonia developed when he’d been in the hospital for a week. His symptoms improved the next day.
Dead bodies are revealing the secrets of how cancer kills
Posted in Medicine on 7th Feb, 2020
by Alex Muller
One in two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, according to figures from Cancer Research UK. And while research has advanced in leaps and bounds in terms of finding drugs and improving our understanding of the disease, doctors still don’t know the answer to one of the biggest questions: why do patients die?
Simple, cheap nanoparticles activate immune system against cancer
Posted in Medicine on 1st Feb, 2020
by Alex Muller
The best way to fight off cancer might be to strengthen the body’s immune system and help it identify and kill tumors. This field of study is known as immunotherapy, and while it’s showing promise it can be quite expensive. Researchers have developed nanoparticles that should be cheaper to produce.
Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
Posted in Medicine on 22nd Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller
"It raises the prospect of a 'one-size-fits-all' cancer treatment, a single type of T-cell that could be capable of destroying many different types of cancers across the population."
Brain Barriers Breached to Attack Tumors
Posted in Medicine on 17th Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller
Yale researchers have found a way to get immune system rescuers through the brain’s protective drainage system.