Fighting diseases

Enormous promise for new parasitic infection treatment

The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth, is killed at egg and adult stage by a new drug class developed at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford and University College London.

Current treatments for human whipworm are based on 1960s drugs initially developed for livestock and have a

2017-03-03T07:55:54-06:00Tags: , |

Finding may explain why many Alzheimer’s disease patients wander

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have discovered that the spatial disorientation that leads to wandering in many Alzheimer’s disease patients is caused by the accumulation of tau protein in navigational nerve cells in the brain. The findings, in mice, could lead to early diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s and highlight novel targets for treating this

2017-02-23T09:34:08-06:00Tags: , |

Stray bullets – Orphan Diseases

Maple Syrup Urine Disease. Gaucher Disease. Prader-Willy Syndrome. Pompe Disease. Angelman Syndrome. Though these diseases are hardly ever heard of, they do exist. Their names are not made up. But sadly most people do not pay a lot of attention to them simply because they are rare. “Rare diseases are in fact not a distant issue,”

2017-01-21T13:50:58-06:00Tags: , |
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