Brain cancer is hard to treat: it's not only strong enough to resist most chemotherapies, but also nimble enough to migrate away from radiation or surgery to regrow elsewhere. New research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center shows how to stop both.

Could the painkillers in your medicine cabinet be putting you at risk for heart attack, stroke and liver disease? Recent research suggests that both ibuprofen and acetominophen — the two most popular over-the-counter painkillers — carry some potentially and even deadly risks.

Could the painkillers in your medicine cabinet be putting you at risk for heart attack, stroke and liver disease? Recent research suggests that both ibuprofen and acetominophen — the two most popular over-the-counter painkillers — carry some potentially and even deadly risks.

New animal study confirms the dramatic effects of a natural formula against aggressive prostate cancer tumors. Researchers at the Methodist Research Institute at Indiana University conducted the study on mice, using a human prostate cancer xenograft model.

Between last year and this year, at least 42 brand-name drugs have lost or are expected to lose their patents and become available as generics, creating as much as $900 million in annual savings in Upstate New York, according to Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

Cincinnati medical writing firm Medical Communication Consultants has helped a Boston-area pharmaceutical company attain new heights of efficiency and scalability– Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has submitted its New Drug Application (NDA) to the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) in just nine years– six years sooner than the 15-year industry average. …

Honing chemotherapy delivery to cancer cells is a challenge for many researchers. Getting the cancer cells to take the chemotherapy “bait” is a greater challenge. But perhaps such a challenge has not been met with greater success than by the nanotechnology research team of Omid Farokhzad, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine and …

A new study finds that men are at a higher risk of colon cancer than women and should get their first colonoscopy to screen for the disease at age 45, five years earlier than the current recommendation.

Two related studies from Northwestern University offer new strategies for tackling the challenges of preventing and treating diseases of protein folding, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cancer, cystic fibrosis and type 2 diabetes.

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