Antidiabetic drug could combat cancer drug resistance Adding an antidiabetic drug to treatment with antiangiogenic multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitors resulted in a reduction in tumour growth.…
Lower doses of yellow fever vaccine could be used in emergencies, says WHO An expert panel of the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised that lowering the dosage of yellow fever vaccine could control an outbreak while avoiding vaccine shortages…
Gene-delivery strategy provides hope of universal cancer vaccine The first three patients given a novel RNA-lipoplex vaccine encoding four tumour antigens had a strong immune response.…
Lowering cholesterol could help combat treatment resistant breast cancer Blocking key enzymes in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway reduced proliferation of cancer cells by 30–50%.…
Study shows how proton pump inhibitors damage blood vessel cells New research into harmful effects of PPIs suggests that the drugs impair vascular cells.…
US FDA approves first PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor for most common bladder cancer The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the immunotherapy atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to treat urothelial carcinoma, the most common form of bladder cancer.…
Yellow fever vaccine shortages could be on the cards, warns WHO The World Health Organization has warned that there may be a shortage of yellow fever vaccine if there are any new outbreaks of the viral haemorrhagic disease this year. …
Morning flu vaccination may enhance immune response Older patients who received an influenza vaccination in the morning produced a larger concentration of antibodies compared with those given the vaccination in the afternoon, study shows.…
Resistance to antimalarial atovaquone does not spread Atovaquone could be used more widely to treat malaria since resistance does not spread to subsequent generations of the malaria parasite.…
Autism: in search of new drug targets Genetic discoveries have invigorated autism research and raised the possibility of finding drug targets based on autism’s underlying pathophysiology, rather than merely treating symptoms.…