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A Helping Hand for Addicts

Monday, June 29th, 2009 - 13:55:24 - Ehud Rattner

Vincent Clark, of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, thinks he has something like a crystal ball for drug addicts. By applying traditional...

Cancer Drugs Might Treat Alcoholism

Monday, May 25th, 2009 - 13:52:54 - Ehud Rattner

A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a...

Ginger May Help Nausea from Cancer Treatment

Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 17:56:10 - Anuradha Menon

Taking ginger capsules before and after chemotherapy for cancer can ease nausea when anti-vomiting drugs aren't enough, according to a new study...

How Thalidomide Makes Its Mark

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 - 12:01:39 - Ehud Rattner

More than 50 years after the drug thalidomide hit the market as a remedy for nausea in pregnant women, researchers may finally have pinned down how...

World's Most Dangerous Drug
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Methamphetamine is a very addictive stimulant drug that affects the central nervous system. The white, odorless...

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Fungal Compound With Anti-Cancer Activity

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - 14:11:59 - Anuradha Menon

Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the...

Designer Immune Cells Fight Prostate Cancer

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 - 14:08:09 - Ehud Rattner

Genetically engineered immune cells may have helped two patients with advanced prostate cancer to fight the disease, preliminary results suggest...

Chinese Botanical Drug to Cure Peanut Allergies
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A recent study conducted at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York suggests that a Chinese botanical drug can help...

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Blocked Enzyme Reverses Schizophrenia

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 - 10:01:25 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that inhibiting a key brain enzyme in mice reversed schizophrenia-like...