Repurposing cancer drugs to fight neuroinflammatory diseases
Repurposing existing FDA-approved drugs for alternative treatments offers a faster route to introducing new therapies.
In a pioneering effort, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an imbalance of brain chemicals – our discovery could...
People often jokingly say they’ve “got a bit of OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder) if they are overly organised or tidy.
But OCD is actually a severe...
Healing hearts with meditation: how it helps heart patients
Heart patients may find help in an unexpected place: meditation.
A new study presented at a big conference, the ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023, found that...
Metformin could reduce risk of joint disease in people with diabetes
Osteoarthritis is a persistent issue that plagues millions around the world, causing joint pain severe enough to necessitate joint replacements.
As it stands, there are...
Stop smoking early could help improve cancer survival
Lung cancer is responsible for one in five cancer deaths in the U.S., and smoking is largely to blame.
Since the number of smokers has...
The connection between diabetes and frozen shoulder: an in-depth look
Frozen shoulder, a painful condition limiting shoulder movement, appears to have a higher incidence among individuals with diabetes.
Led by scholar Brett Paul Dyer from...
Repurposing a bleeding disorder drug for people with stroke
A new clinical trial called DASH, conducted by researchers from the University of Nottingham and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is testing the...
Potential new drug combo for deadly brain cancer on the horizon
In the fight against cancer, researchers constantly strive to discover new treatments.
A recent study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of...
Metformin may help diabetic patients with heart failure live longer
When patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and chronic heart failure (CHF) are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), their treatment often sparks a...
Scientists find an important cause of multiple sclerosis
Researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have made significant advancements in understanding how the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) could trigger or worsen multiple sclerosis (MS).
Their study,...