A new study reports successful results from a blood pressure treatment that combines low doses of three different currently available hypertension drugs into a single pill. The new research is hoped to change worldwide guidelines for the optimal way treat people suffering from high blood pressure.
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Infectious bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to our best antibiotics. Now researchers at BIDMC have found that combining two antibiotics that no longer work can create a treatment that’s once again effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Twenty years after the breakthrough discovery illustrating how RNA interference can be used to silence certain genes, and over a decade after the research won a Nobel prize, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug utilizing this method for adult clinical treatment.
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Researchers from ETH Zurich have found a way to make use of some of the chemical weapons bacteria have developed against each other. In this case, that bacterial battleground is on the surface of thale cress leaves.
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An emerging class of drugs called senolytics has been found to help restore the body to a more youthful state, and a new study has used a drug compound to extend the lifespan and improve the general health of older mice.
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When a doctor prescribes a patient more than one drug they have no way to predict whether that combination will have an adverse side effect. A new system from Stanford University presents a novel solution – an AI-driven computer system than can predict the consequences of combining two drugs.
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Caltech researchers have developed a three-part technique for activating neurons that’s far less invasive than surgery, combining ultrasound waves, gene therapy and drugs that has been able to affect memory formation in mice.
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An experimental, non-opioid drug known as EMA401 is showing promise, and now researchers at Washington University in St Louis have found that it works by targeting a different part of the body, outside of the nervous system.
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A new study has uncovered a new mechanism that helps explain the rapid, and long-lasting, antidepressant effects of controversial drug ketamine. The research reveals the drug operates in a way similar to that of conventional SSRI antidepressants except is it significantly more effective.
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Psychedelic Medicine 101 is a series investigating the past, present and future medical uses of some taboo substances. Here we examine the curious story of ketamine, initially developed to be an anesthetic before researchers and psychonauts discovered its unique and unusual effects on the brain.
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